Creative Kids of Mahopac

School-age children must have separate areas to avoid interference with the younger children’s programs.

Rule 418-1.3(j).

The child day care center must report to the Office: immediately upon learning of any other change that would place the center out of compliance with applicable regulations;

Rule 418-1.15(b)(12)(iv). From a complaint.

Adequate and safe water supply and sewage facilities must be provided and must comply with State and local laws. Hot and cold running water must be available and accessible at all times.

Rule 418-1.3(n). From a complaint.

Any initial application for a child care license or registration shall include the submission of fingerprint images for any operator, director, employee, or volunteer, and any person age eighteen (18) or older living in a group family day care home or family day care home.

Rule 413.4(d)(1). Corrected during the inspection.

Applicants for a license must submit to the Office: Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment and Justice Center for the Protection of Persons with Special Needs

Rule 418-1.2(a)(19). Corrected during the inspection.

Any abuse or maltreatment of a child is prohibited. A day care center must prohibit and may not tolerate or in any manner condone an act of abuse or maltreatment by an staff, volunteer or any other person. An abused child or maltreated child means a child defined as an abused child or maltreated child pursuant to Section 412 of the Social Services Law.

Rule 418-1.10(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.

Corporal punishment is prohibited. For the purposes of this Subpart, the term corporal punishment means punishment inflicted directly on the body including, but not limited to, physical restraint, spanking, biting, shaking, slapping, twisting or squeezing; demanding excessive physical exercise, prolonged lack of movement or motion, or strenuous or bizarre postures; and compelling a child to eat or have in the child’s mouth soap, foods, hot spices or irritants or the like.

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

Methods of discipline, interaction or toilet training which frighten, demean or humiliate a child are prohibited.

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

No child may be accepted for care in a child care program unless the program has been furnished with a written statement signed by a health care provider verifying that the child is able to participate in child care and currently appears to be free from contagious or communicable diseases. A child’s medical statement must have been completed within the 12 months preceding the date of enrollment.

Rule 418-1.11(a)(1).

Applicants for a license must submit to the Office: Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment and Justice Center for the Protection of Persons with Special Needs

Rule 418-1.2(a)(19).

The child day care center must report to the Office: Immediately or no later than the next day of business of the director’s resignation or termination;

Rule 418-1.15(b)(12)(iii).