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25 | Licensing Program Analyst (LPA) Neal met with Licensee, Maxine Williams via unannounced Tele-inspection for the purpose of conducting a change of capacity inspection from a small to a large family child care home. Home consists of 6 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, kitchen, living room, family room, dining area and backyard. Parents enter child care through the front door. Family members residing in the home include 3 adults (Applicant's and one applicant's mother) and 4 children. There were 2 children present during this inspection.
Home was inspected inside and outside for safety, comfort, cleanliness, telephone service, heating and ventilation, inaccessibility to poisons, detergents, cleaning compounds, medicines, and hazardous items that are inaccessible to children. Fireplace is located in the off-limits family room and is screened. Child care activities are conducted in the living room and dining room areas. Children use the bathroom down the left hallway (observed clean and free from hazards). Garage and laundry room have child locks for inaccessibility. Garage is used for storage only and no child care activities are conducted there. Off limits areas include all bedrooms (child safety knobs observed) and other 2 bathrooms. Exception made for the bedroom at the end of the hallway on the right side of home. Bedroom at the end of the hallway is used only for ill children. Cleaning compounds and detergents are kept inaccessible to children in laundry room. Knives are kept in a butcher block in a high, child locked kitchen cabinet. Child safety knob observed on pantry door. Medications are made inaccessible by child lock in a high kitchen cabinet. Parent board was observed. |