WHISPERING PINES PRE-SCHOOL, INC.
WHISPERING PINES PRE-SCHOOL, INC.
License/Registration ID: 365313
40 Henrietta Blvd. Amsterdam, NY 12010
Get Directions
This Checklist reflects a partial list of the regulatory requirements based on the inspection performed. Additional violations may have been cited that are not included in the inspection checklist.
To learn more about inspections
click or tap here.
Inspection ID:
2025-I-ARO-029450
Date:
03/26/2025
Inspection Type:
Complaint
Inspection Result:
Violations found
Compliance Status:
Y-Compliant, N-Noncompliant, N/O-Not Observed, N/A-Not Applicable, P/V-Prior Violation
Reg
Compliance Status
413.3 Enforcement of Regulations
*
Posting of Compliance History Document
413.3(g)(3)(i)
Y
418-1.8 Supervision of Children
*
Competent supervision is maintained at all times
418-1.8(a)
Y
*
Number of staff is appropriate for number of children present
418-1.8(j)
Y
418-1.14 Training
*
At least one staff member certified in First Aid and CPR is present at all times children are in care
418-1.14(k)
Y
Each identified staff and volunteer completed Federal Health and Safety training within required timeframes
418-1.14(b)
Y
Each identified staff supervising children alone completed Federal Health and Safety training.
418-1.14(b)
Y
418-1.15 Management and Administration
*
Numbers and ages of children present are within licensed or registered capacity
418-1.15(a)(4)
Y
This program is located in a public school and, therefore, the program may not be responsible for correcting the listed violations.
Summary of Violations
Date Cited
Regulation
Regulation Description
Compliance Status
Corrected on- Site?
03/26/2025
418-1.9(a)
The program must establish and follow a written plan for behavior management that is acceptable to the office. This plan must include how the staff will approach challenging behaviors, help children solve problems and encourage acceptable behaviors.
Corrected
N
03/26/2025
418-1.9(b)
The staff must use acceptable techniques and approaches to help children solve problems.
Corrected
N
03/26/2025
418-1.9(h)
Physical restraint is prohibited. Physical restraint is the act of using force to extremely limit a child's body movements for a lengthy period of time. It involves holding a child against his/her will and putting pressure on the child's chest and/or extremities in an effort to significantly restrict his/her movement, thereby making it extremely difficult for a child to move. It may also involve holding a child flat on the ground and restricting his/her body from movement.
Corrected
N
03/26/2025
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
N
03/26/2025
418-1.9(m)
Methods of discipline, interaction or toilet training which frighten, demean or humiliate a child are prohibited.
Corrected
N
03/26/2025
418-1.10(a)
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.
Corrected
N
03/26/2025
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
N
03/26/2025
418-1.13(a)(1)
Staff and volunteers must be mature, of good character and possess suitable personal qualifications.
Corrected
N
03/26/2025
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
N
Date Cited
03/26/2025
Regulation
418-1.9(a)
Regulation Description
The program must establish and follow a written plan for behavior management that is acceptable to the office. This plan must include how the staff will approach challenging behaviors, help children solve problems and encourage acceptable behaviors.
Compliance Status
Corrected
Corrected on- Site?
N
Date Cited
03/26/2025
Regulation
418-1.9(b)
Regulation Description
The staff must use acceptable techniques and approaches to help children solve problems.
Compliance Status
Corrected
Corrected on- Site?
N
Date Cited
03/26/2025
Regulation
418-1.9(h)
Regulation Description
Physical restraint is prohibited. Physical restraint is the act of using force to extremely limit a child's body movements for a lengthy period of time. It involves holding a child against his/her will and putting pressure on the child's chest and/or extremities in an effort to significantly restrict his/her movement, thereby making it extremely difficult for a child to move. It may also involve holding a child flat on the ground and restricting his/her body from movement.
Compliance Status
Corrected
Corrected on- Site?
N
Date Cited
03/26/2025
Regulation
418-1.9(j)
Regulation Description
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.
Compliance Status
Corrected
Corrected on- Site?
N
Date Cited
03/26/2025
Regulation
418-1.9(m)
Regulation Description
Methods of discipline, interaction or toilet training which frighten, demean or humiliate a child are prohibited.
Compliance Status
Corrected
Corrected on- Site?
N
Date Cited
03/26/2025
Regulation
418-1.10(a)
Regulation Description
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.
Compliance Status
Corrected
Corrected on- Site?
N
Date Cited
03/26/2025
Regulation
418-1.10(c)(1)
Regulation Description
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.
Compliance Status
Corrected
Corrected on- Site?
N
Date Cited
03/26/2025
Regulation
418-1.13(a)(1)
Regulation Description
Staff and volunteers must be mature, of good character and possess suitable personal qualifications.
Compliance Status
Corrected
Corrected on- Site?
N
Date Cited
03/26/2025
Regulation
418-1.15(b)(14)(ii)
Regulation Description
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,
Compliance Status
Corrected
Corrected on- Site?
N
Inspections may be conducted outside of program operating hours and/or off-site (where inspector was not on premises where care is provided) for the following reasons:
For additional information on this program and compliance history, contact:
Office: Albany Regional Office
Phone: (518) 402-3038