KinderCare Learning Center

In accordance with the provisions of Sections 413 and 415 of the Social Services Law, child care center staff must immediately report any suspected incidents of child abuse or maltreatment concerning a child receiving child care to the Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment, or cause such a report to be made, when such staff have reasonable cause to suspect that a child coming before them in their capacity as child care center workers is an abused or maltreated child. This must be done in the following manner:

Rule 418-1.10(c).

Except for Office approved continuity of care classrooms, children under three years of age may not participate in mixed age groups except for limited periods of time at the beginning and end of the child day care center’s daily operation.

Rule 418-1.8(l)(8).

When toddlers are cared for with preschool children in a mixed age group at the very beginning or very end of the day, the teacher/child ratio and maximum group size applicable to children aged 18 months to 36 months must be followed.

Rule 418-1.8(l)(9).

for children between ages 18 months old and 36 months old: there must be one teacher for every five children;

Rule 418-1.8(k)(3)(i). From a complaint.

When preschool children ages three years to five years are cared for in one group throughout the day, the teacher to child ratio and maximum group size applicable to the age of the majority of children must be followed.

Rule 418-1.8(l)(6). From a complaint. Corrected during the inspection.

The program must establish and follow a written plan for behavior management that is acceptable to the office. This plan must include how the staff will approach challenging behaviors, help children solve problems and encourage acceptable behaviors.

Rule 418-1.9(a). From a complaint.

Behavior management must promote self-esteem in children and guide children in such a way as to help each child develop self-control and assume responsibility for his or her actions through clear and consistent rules and limits appropriate to the ages and development of the children in care.

Rule 418-1.9(d). From a complaint.

To be qualified as a group teacher for a preschool class, a person must possess either: a Child Development Associate Credential or other Office-recognized credential specific to the preschool developmental period; and one year of experience related to caring for children; or

Rule 418-1.13(g)(2)(ii).

To be qualified as a group teacher for an infant or toddler class, a person must possess either: an Infant and Toddler Child Care and Education Credential, Infant Toddler Child Development Associate Credential or other Office-recognized credential specific to the infant/toddler development period; and two years of experience related to caring for children; or

Rule 418-1.13(g)(3)(ii).

The program must maintain on file a record of each shelter-in-place drill conducted, using forms provided by the Office or approved equivalents.

Rule 418-1.5(b)(5).

Except for Office approved continuity of care classrooms, children under three years of age may not participate in mixed age groups except for limited periods of time at the beginning and end of the child day care center’s daily operation.

Rule 418-1.8(l)(8).

The licensee must prepare a health care plan on forms furnished by the Office. Such plan must protect and promote the health of children. The health care plan must be on site, followed by all staff and available upon demand by a parent or the Office. In those instances in which the program will administer medications, the health care plan must also be approved by the program’s health care consultant unless the only medications to be administered are:

Rule 418-1.11(c)(1). From a complaint.

The parent must be notified immediately and the Office must be notified within 24 hours of any medication administration errors. Notification to the Office must be reported on a form provided by the Office or on an approved equivalent.

Rule 418-1.11(f)(10). From a complaint.

For children eighteen months of age and older, prescription medications, oral over-the-counter medications, medicated patches, and eye, ear, or nasal drops or sprays, can be administered by the program for one day only, with the oral approval of the parent. If prescription medications, oral over-the-counter medications, medicated patches, and eye, ear, or nasal drops or sprays are to be administered on a subsequent day or an ongoing basis, written permission from the parent and written instructions from the health care provider must have been provided to the program prior to such administration.

Rule 418-1.11(f)(7)(iii). From a complaint.

Staff and volunteers must thoroughly wash their hands with soap and running water at the beginning of each day, before and after the administration of medications, when they are dirty, after toileting or assisting children with toileting, after changing a diaper, before and after food handling or eating, after handling pets or other animals, after contact with any bodily secretion or fluid, and after coming in from outdoors.

Rule 418-1.11(i)(1). From a complaint.

The program must immediately notify the parent and Office upon learning of the following events involving a child which occurred while the child was in care at the program or was being transported by the program: serious injury,

Rule 418-1.15(b)(14)(iii). From a complaint.

A child day care center must give the parent, at the time of admission of a child, a written policy statement including, but not limited to: how parents will be notified of accidents, serious incidents and injuries;

Rule 418-1.15(b)(21)(iv). From a complaint.

A group teacher, meeting the qualifications of section 418-1.13, is required for every group of children.

Rule 418-1.8(e). From a complaint.

Children cannot be left without competent supervision at any time. Competent supervision includes awareness of and responsibility for the ongoing activity of each child. It requires that all children be within a teacher’s range of vision and that the teacher be near enough to respond when redirection or intervention strategies are needed. Competent supervision must take into account the child’s age emotional, physical, and cognitive development.

Rule 418-1.8(a). From a complaint.