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25 | On 03/10/2020 Licensing Program Analyst (LPA), Robert Gutierrez, conducted a case management – incident inspection and was met by Teacher, Guadalupe Pimentel. At around 10:45 a.m. Senior Director, Heidi Nunes and Coordinator of Early Childhood Education, Kimbra Draper arrived at the facility and met with LPA. The purpose of today’s inspection was to follow up on an incident that occurred on 03/03/2020 at approximately 2:20 p.m. at the facility. The incident involved Child 1 (C1) being left outside unsupervised in the fenced playground for approximately one minute. During todays inspection LPA spoke with staff and gathered information on the incident. Based on interviews conducted it was determined children were lining up in the playground to come inside the classroom. While children were lining up, Staff #1 (S1) started to do a head count of children in care. As S1 was counting children, two children got into a fight. This caused S1 to stop counting children and break up the fight. S1 continued with head count of children in care. Due to the fight, S1 accidentally counted one child twice causing her to get an incorrect number of total children in line. S1 thinking she/he had the correct number children in care transitioned children into indoor play, leaving C1 outside in the playground unsupervised. C1 was later seen by a Safety Patrol Member (SPM). SPM overheard C1 crying in the playground and went in the administrative office to notify the Administrative Assistant (AA) of what was observed. Once notified AA left the office and went outside looking for C1. AA observed C1 in the playground. AA entered the playground and walked C1 to the main office. AA contacted a preschool staff member and he/she retrieved C1.
Due to the incident occurring an informal meeting has been scheduled for Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. in the Fresno Regional Child Care office located at 1310 E Shaw Avenue, Fresno CA, 93710. LPA provided Ms. Nunes a hard copy of the informal letter.
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