UCS Infant-Toddler Center

Regulation 7.1.2.2: Staff who are counted in the staff/child ratios and auxiliary staff left alone with children and/or counted in staff/child ratio as specified in the rule 6.2.1.8 of these regulations shall obtain training in pediatric first aid and in infant and child CPR within three (3) months of beginning work in the CBCCPP and remain currently certified.

“Four staff members who have been employed longer than 3 months do not have current First Aid and CPR certification as required. Corrective Action: Ensure that each of these individuals obtains the required certification as soon as possible. Notify sarah.crosier@vermont.gov when complete. Send documents to professional.development@ccv.edu as soon as they are available.”

Correction date in the state record: Feb 18, 2022

Regulation 7.1.3: The licensee, in consultation with the program director, shall establish written program policies and procedures and provide these to staff and to auxiliary staff left alone with children and/or counted in staff/child ratio as specified in the rule 6.2.1.8 of these regulations during an orientation training session approved by the Division prior to being left alone with children. Trainees under eighteen (18) years of age and other staff not left alone with children shall complete the orientation training within at least one (1) month of their first date of working with children. Complete written information and the orientation training session shall include: Basic knowledge of child growth and development; Routine and emergency health protection of children including health related exclusions; Safety and sanitation requirements including handling and storage of hazardous materials and disposal of bio contaminants; Positive behavior management; Supervision of children; Child accident and injury procedures including building and physical premises safety; Safe sleep practices; Administration of medication requirements; Emergency and evacuation requirements; Nutrition and food safety including prevention of and response to emergencies due to food and allergic reactions; Recordkeeping; Transportation and child passenger safety; Release of children; Respectful engagement of families; Preventing, recognizing, and reporting child abuse and neglect; including information about the signs and symptoms of sexual abuse, sexual violence, grooming processes, recognizing the dangers of child sexual abuse, and other predatory behaviors of sex offenders; Recognition of and response to the symptoms of common childhood illnesses; Preventing the spread of infectious disease; Providing developmentally appropriate activities and experiences for children; Inclusion of children with special needs; Guidelines for volunteers, partner staff, auxiliary staff, and business managers; Responsibility to comply with current applicable licensing regulations; Staffing requirements to include opening and closing; and Ensuring children have extra clothes and diapers available.

“Upon review of staff BFIS quality and credential accounts, and documentation emailed post visit, it was determined that five (5) staff had not completed Orientation as required by this rule. Corrective Action: Ensure all staff have completed the Orientation training by 10/23/2020. Develop a system to ensure ongoing compliance to this rule.”

Correction date in the state record: Oct 19, 2020

Regulation 3.3.5: The licensee, staff, and auxiliary staff shall be trained in prevention, identification and mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect.

“Upon review of staff BFIS quality and credential accounts, and through documentation emailed post visit, it was determined that nine (9) staff had not completed the Protecting Vermont's Children: Reporting Abuse & Neglect training. Corrective Action: Ensure all staff have completed the Protecting Vermont's Children: Reporting Abuse & Neglect training by 10/23/2020. Develop a system to ensure ongoing compliance to this rule.”

Correction date in the state record: Oct 19, 2020

Regulation 3.4.6.1: The licensee shall maintain a record of the date of each evacuation drill as required in the rules in section 3.7.2 of these regulations that includes the number of children and staff evacuated, time taken to evacuate, and notation of the drill conducted while children were sleeping or resting. Evacuation records shall be kept for two (2) years. When the CBCCPP counts lock-down drills as allowed in the rules in section 3.7.2 of these regulations, the licensee shall maintain a record of the date of each lock-down drill, the number of CBCCPP children and staff who participated, and note that the drill performed was a lock-down drill.

“Upon review of the fire drill records, it was found that between October 2019 and September 2020, four (4) months worth of drills were not recorded, five (5) drills did not account for the length of time it took to evacuate the building, four (4) drills during this period did not account for the number of staff present, two (2) months, the number of children were not acounted for, and a notation as to whether children were resting or not was not indicated. Corrective Action: Develop a system to ensure that drills are accounted for each month and that all components of this rule are indicated on your reporting system.”

Correction date in the state record: Oct 19, 2020

Regulation 6.2.4.3: The program director shall ensure that each group of children is led by a staff member who is at least qualified as a teacher associate for at least 75% of the hours of operation.

“For 44 of the 55 weekdays between April 3, 2017 through June 16, 2017, the program had more than eight children present at a time requiring the program to operate as two groups. The program did not have a second person qualifying as a teaching associate or higher working with each of the groups. The requirement to have a person meeting teaching associate or higher qualifications was in place in the previous regulations (Rule IIB2). Corrective Action: Have the required qualified staff persons counted in staff to child ratio. E-mail elaine.crawford@vermont.gov with confirmation that persons meeting teaching associate or teacher are working in each group.”

Correction date in the state record: Aug 22, 2017