North Arlington KinderCare

The loose fill on the pre-k playground is 3 inches in depth. Minimum standards state that play structures five feet or less have to maintain a depth of six inches in loose fill.

The carpet in the schoolers room is stained, the furniture in the classrooms have visible dirt on them. The shelves in the rooms are cracked and chipping. Two buses were viewed with old food wrappers, empty bottles and misc. paper on the floor of the buses.

A tricycle on the toddler playground was broken and cracked.

The toddler playground needs to be maintained to ensure that loose fill is at the proper depth of 6 inches.

Based on the amount of deficiencies cited today the director is not ensuring that the operation is being ran in compliance with minimum standards.

Current activity plans were not posted in the following classrooms: infant, pre-k, and school age.

The school age classroom did not have an emergency evacuation and relocation diagram posted.

One child lacked authorization for emergency medical care.

Two children's admission information did not include the name, address, and telephone number of the child's physician or an emergency-care facility.

The director and operation's driver did not have current transportation safety training. Both will need to complete 2 clock hours of transportation safety training.

Six caregivers did not complete trainings in the following topics: (1) Emergency preparedness (2)Preventing and controlling the spread of communicable diseases, (3)Administering medication (4)Preventing and responding to emergencies due to food or an allergic reaction (5)Understanding building and physical premises safety (6)Handling, storing, and disposing of hazardous materials One caregiver will need to complete prevention, recognition, and reporting of child maltreatment and SIDS, shaken baby, and early brain development.

Eight infants did not have current infant feeding instructions on file.

Three caregivers did not have a current TB test on file.

One child did not have an immunization record on file.

Two children lacked the name and telephone number of the school that the child attends. (Note: School information was updated for both children during the inspection.)

One child did not have a health statement on file.

During the investigation, it was determined that a caregiver inappropriately disciplined children while in care. The caregiver disciplined children by grabbing them by their arm and/or by their shirt.

The operation has not ordered the loose fill to maintain compliance after the last inspection.

The infant classroom had three caregiverse with 15 infants. There were 9 infants that were 0-11 months and 6 infants that were 12-17 months. The secificate age group was 0-11 months. This was corrected at inspection when the infant classroom sperated and two caregivers took the older infants to the other infant side and two caregivers stayed in the same area with the younger infants.

A caregiver was working at the operation prior to receiving a background check status result of eligible, eligible with conditions, or provisionally eligible. The caregiver was placed in a classroom to help with ratios during the inspection. The caregiver was then removed and placed in a room to finish working on training and did not have access to children.

Loose fill on two playgrounds were not maintained to the required depth. Cement was exposed under the slide.

A table in the larger playground had the top layer ripped and exposing sharp edges.

The operation did not have the required updated playground checklist. The last checklist was dated for May 2021.

Based on interviews with the director, caregivers, and the parent this standard was found to be deficiency.