Date |
Regulation |
Description |
Compliance Status as of last inspection |
Apr 16, 2025 |
418-1.7(c) |
Each program must provide a sufficient quantity and variety of materials and play equipment appropriate to the ages of the children and their developmental levels and interests, including children with developmental delays or disabilities, which promote the children's cognitive, educational, social, cultural, physical, emotional, language and recreational development. |
Not Corrected |
Apr 16, 2025 |
418-1.8(k)(3)(i) |
for children between ages 18 months old and 36 months old: there must be one teacher for every five children; |
Not Corrected |
Apr 16, 2025 |
418-1.8(k)(3)(ii) |
for children between ages 18 months old and 36 months old: the maximum group size is twelve children. |
Not Corrected |
Apr 16, 2025 |
418-1.8(l)(7) |
Except for Office approved continuity of care classrooms, infants may never be mixed with other age groups. |
Not Corrected |
Apr 16, 2025 |
418-1.15(b)(4) |
The staff and volunteers must be in good health and be of good character and habits. |
Not Corrected |
Apr 16, 2025 |
418-1.15(c)(6) |
The program must maintain on file at the child day care center, available for inspection by the Office or its designees at any time, the following records in a current and accurate manner: children's individual health care plans; parental consents for emergency medical treatment; child's medical statement, immunizations, and any available results of lead screening for children not yet enrolled in kindergarten or a higher grade only; the name and dosage of any medications used by a child, the frequency of administration of such medications, and a record of their administration by child care center staff; daily health check documentation; a record of illnesses and injuries occurring while in care; and any indicators of child abuse or maltreatment; |
Corrected |
Apr 3, 2025 |
418-1.5(a) |
Suitable precautions must be taken to eliminate all conditions in areas accessible to children which pose a safety or health hazard. |
Not Corrected |
Apr 3, 2025 |
418-1.5(v) |
All matches, lighters, medicines, drugs, cleaning materials, detergents, aerosol cans and other poisonous or toxic materials must be stored in their original containers. Such materials must be used in such a way that they will not contaminate play surfaces, food or food preparation areas, or constitute a hazard to children. Such materials must be kept in a place inaccessible to children. |
Not Corrected |
Apr 3, 2025 |
418-1.7(l) |
Except while sleeping, awaking or going to sleep, an infant must not be left in a crib, playpen or other confined space for more than 30 minutes at any one time. Other than at meals or snack time, a child must not be left in a high chair for longer than 15 minutes. |
Not Corrected |
Apr 3, 2025 |
418-1.8(a) |
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. |
Not Corrected |
Apr 3, 2025 |
418-1.8(b) |
The child day care center must employ staff who will promote the physical, intellectual, social, cultural and emotional well-being of the children. |
Not Corrected |
Apr 3, 2025 |
418-1.8(c) |
The child day care center must provide supervision of the staff responsible for the care of children. Workloads and assignments must be arranged to provide consistency of care to children and to allow staff to fulfill their respective responsibilities. |
Not Corrected |
Apr 3, 2025 |
418-1.8(l)(7) |
Except for Office approved continuity of care classrooms, infants may never be mixed with other age groups. |
Not Corrected |
Apr 3, 2025 |
418-1.13(b) |
Child day care centers must review and evaluate the backgrounds of all applicants for staff and volunteer positions. All applicants whose backgrounds must be checked are required to provide the following: |
Not Corrected |
Apr 3, 2025 |
418-1.15(b)(31) |
Programs must follow safety plans developed by the Office when allegations of risk of harm to child(ren) against the program, staff, volunteer or visitor are under investigation. |
Not Corrected |
Mar 25, 2025 |
418-1.5(a) |
Suitable precautions must be taken to eliminate all conditions in areas accessible to children which pose a safety or health hazard. |
Not Corrected |
Feb 25, 2025 |
418-1.3(h) |
Peeling or damaged paint or plaster must be repaired. |
Corrected |
Feb 25, 2025 |
418-1.5(a) |
Suitable precautions must be taken to eliminate all conditions in areas accessible to children which pose a safety or health hazard. |
Corrected |
Feb 25, 2025 |
418-1.5(v) |
All matches, lighters, medicines, drugs, cleaning materials, detergents, aerosol cans and other poisonous or toxic materials must be stored in their original containers. Such materials must be used in such a way that they will not contaminate play surfaces, food or food preparation areas, or constitute a hazard to children. Such materials must be kept in a place inaccessible to children. |
Corrected |
Feb 25, 2025 |
418-1.5(aa) |
The following items must be used and stored in such a manner that they are not accessible to children: handbags, backpacks or briefcases belonging to adults; plastic bags; and toys and objects small enough for young children to swallow. |
Corrected |
Feb 25, 2025 |
418-1.7(o) |
Other than for school age children, sleeping and napping arrangements must be made in writing between the parent and the program. Such arrangements shall include: the area of the program where the child will nap; whether the child will nap on a cot, mat, bed or a crib; and how the napping child will be supervised, consistent with the requirements of section 418-1.8 of this Subpart. |
Not Corrected |
Feb 25, 2025 |
418-1.8(a) |
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. |
Corrected |
Feb 25, 2025 |
418-1.8(b) |
The child day care center must employ staff who will promote the physical, intellectual, social, cultural and emotional well-being of the children. |
Corrected |
Feb 25, 2025 |
418-1.8(c) |
The child day care center must provide supervision of the staff responsible for the care of children. Workloads and assignments must be arranged to provide consistency of care to children and to allow staff to fulfill their respective responsibilities. |
Corrected |
Feb 25, 2025 |
418-1.8(k)(2)(i) |
for children between ages 6 weeks old and 18 months old: there must be one teacher for every four children; |
Corrected |
Feb 25, 2025 |
418-1.8(l)(7) |
Except for Office approved continuity of care classrooms, infants may never be mixed with other age groups. |
Corrected |
Feb 25, 2025 |
418-1.8(n) |
The use of any type of personal electronic media device for social or entertainment purposes, including but not limited to, listening to music on headphones, playing screen games, surfing the internet, sending e-mails, or making personal calls while supervising children is prohibited. The use of mobile phones is permitted as necessary to promote the children's safety and ensuring the orderly operation of the program. |
Corrected |
Feb 25, 2025 |
418-1.11(a)(1) |
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. |
Not Corrected |
Feb 25, 2025 |
418-1.11(a)(2) |
The written medical statement from the health care provider must also state whether the child is a child with special health care needs and, if so, what special provisions, if any, will be necessary in order for the child to participate in child day care. When the written statement from the health care provider advises the day care program that the child being enrolled is a child with special health care needs, the day care program must work together with the parent and the child's health care provider to develop a reasonable health care plan for the child while the child is in the child day care program. The health care plan for the child must also address how the day care program will obtain or develop any additional competencies that the staff will need to have in order to carry out the health care plan for the child. |
Not Corrected |
Feb 25, 2025 |
418-1.11(a)(3) |
The program must keep documentation of immunizations the child has received to date, in accordance with New York State Public Health Law. |
Not Corrected |
Feb 25, 2025 |
418-1.11(i)(6) |
All rooms, equipment, surfaces, supplies and furnishings accessible to children must be cleaned and then sanitized or disinfected, using an EPA registered product, as needed to protect the health of children, and in a manner consistent with the program's health care plan approved by the Office. |
Not Corrected |
Feb 25, 2025 |
418-1.11(i)(12) |
Garbage receptacles must be covered, and cleaned as needed after emptying. |
Corrected |
Feb 25, 2025 |
418-1.12(z) |
All containers or bottles of, breast milk, formula or other individualized food items must be clearly marked with the child's complete name. |
Corrected |
Feb 25, 2025 |
418-1.13(b) |
Child day care centers must review and evaluate the backgrounds of all applicants for staff and volunteer positions. All applicants whose backgrounds must be checked are required to provide the following: |
Corrected |
Jan 8, 2025 |
418-1.8(k)(2)(i) |
for children between ages 6 weeks old and 18 months old: there must be one teacher for every four children; |
Corrected |
Jan 8, 2025 |
418-1.12(ag) |
Infants six months of age or younger must be held while being bottle-fed. Infants older than six months must be held while being bottle fed until the infant consistently demonstrates the capability of holding the bottle and ingesting an adequate portion of the contents thereof. |
Corrected |
Jan 8, 2025 |
418-1.12(aj) |
Children may not be placed in the crib with a bottle, food or drink. |
Corrected |
Jan 8, 2025 |
418-1.15(c)(12) |
The program must maintain on file at the child day care center, available for inspection by the Office or its designees at any time, the following records in a current and accurate manner: a current daily schedule documenting the arrival and departure times of each staff person and volunteers; |
Corrected |
Dec 16, 2024 |
418-1.7(w) |
Children unable to sleep during nap time shall not be confined to a sleeping surface (cot, crib, etc) but instead must be offered a supervised place for quiet play. |
Corrected |
Dec 16, 2024 |
418-1.8(b) |
The child day care center must employ staff who will promote the physical, intellectual, social, cultural and emotional well-being of the children. |
Corrected |
Dec 16, 2024 |
418-1.8(n) |
The use of any type of personal electronic media device for social or entertainment purposes, including but not limited to, listening to music on headphones, playing screen games, surfing the internet, sending e-mails, or making personal calls while supervising children is prohibited. The use of mobile phones is permitted as necessary to promote the children's safety and ensuring the orderly operation of the program. |
Corrected |
Dec 16, 2024 |
418-1.9(j) |
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. |
Corrected |
Dec 16, 2024 |
418-1.9(m) |
Methods of discipline, interaction or toilet training which frighten, demean or humiliate a child are prohibited. |
Corrected |
Dec 16, 2024 |
418-1.10(c)(1) |
Child care center staff must personally make, or cause to be made, an immediate report to the Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment by telephone, followed by a written report within 48 hours, in the form and manner prescribed by the Office, to the child protective service of the social services district in the county in which the child resides. |
Corrected |
Dec 16, 2024 |
418-1.15(b)(14)(ii) |
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 incident, |
Corrected |
Feb 26, 2024 |
418-1.8(b) |
The child day care center must employ staff who will promote the physical, intellectual, social, cultural and emotional well-being of the children. |
Corrected |
Feb 26, 2024 |
418-1.9(m) |
Methods of discipline, interaction or toilet training which frighten, demean or humiliate a child are prohibited. |
Corrected |
Feb 26, 2024 |
418-1.13(g)(2) |
To be qualified as a group teacher for a preschool class, a person must possess either: |
Corrected |
Jan 11, 2024 |
418-1.12(w) |
The program must obtain a written statement from the parent of each infant in care setting forth the breast milk, formula and feeding schedule instructions for the infant and must be updated as changes are made. |
Corrected |
Aug 22, 2023 |
418-1.3(o)(2) |
Buildings, systems and equipment must be kept in good repair and operate as designed. |
Corrected |
Aug 22, 2023 |
418-1.4(e) |
All fire suppression equipment and systems must be tested and maintained in accordance with the applicable requirements of the Fire Code and Building Code of New York State or other applicable fire and building codes when the Fire Code and Building Code of New York State is not applicable. |
Corrected |
Aug 22, 2023 |
418-1.5(v) |
All matches, lighters, medicines, drugs, cleaning materials, detergents, aerosol cans and other poisonous or toxic materials must be stored in their original containers. Such materials must be used in such a way that they will not contaminate play surfaces, food or food preparation areas, or constitute a hazard to children. Such materials must be kept in a place inaccessible to children. |
Corrected |
May 19, 2023 |
418-1.3(o) |
All buildings used for day care centers must remain in compliance with the applicable provisions of the Fire Code and Building Code of New York State or other applicable fire and building codes when the Fire Code and Building Code of New York State is not applicable. |
Corrected |
May 19, 2023 |
418-1.15(c)(33) |
The program must maintain on file at the child day care center, available for inspection by the Office or its designees at any time, the following records in a current and accurate manner: documentation from the local government authority having jurisdiction for determining compliance with the Fire and Building Code of New York State showing that the facility has been inspected and approved once every 12 months during the current license period for compliance with the applicable fire safety provisions of the Fire and Building Code of New York State; |
Corrected |
May 19, 2023 |
418-1.5(a) |
Suitable precautions must be taken to eliminate all conditions in areas accessible to children which pose a safety or health hazard. |
Corrected |
May 19, 2023 |
418-1.5(v) |
All matches, lighters, medicines, drugs, cleaning materials, detergents, aerosol cans and other poisonous or toxic materials must be stored in their original containers. Such materials must be used in such a way that they will not contaminate play surfaces, food or food preparation areas, or constitute a hazard to children. Such materials must be kept in a place inaccessible to children. |
Corrected |
*Violations are posted on this web site after the inspection results have been finalized in a report mailed to the provider.
Violations are listed here as 'Corrected' after the Office has verified corrections with the provider,
and a letter confirming the corrections has been mailed to the provider.
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For additional information on this program and compliance history, contact |
Office: Syracuse Regional Office
Phone: (315) 423-1202
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