2 rules cited at DBA First Advantage Learning changed after some of these citations (marked “rule revised”), so the wording that applied at the time may differ from our plain-English explanation.
Medium · Jul 10, 2025 · Inspection
746.1311(a) - Director Annual Training 30 Hours Required
Director is missing twenty-two hours of annual training.
In plain English: A center director must complete 30 hours of training each year that fits the ages of the children served, including at least six hours on topics such as child development or guidance and discipline, at least one hour on preventing, recognizing, and reporting child abuse and neglect, and three to six hours on management or staff supervision depending on experience. At least six of the hours must be instructor-led. Official rule text
- Corrected at inspection:
- No
- Correction date:
- Jul 17, 2025
- Correction verified:
- Jul 24, 2025
- Technical assistance given:
- Yes
Medium High · Jul 10, 2025 · Inspection
746.1205(a)(3) - Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know children's names and ages
A caregiver did not know the ages of the children and the information was not posted.
Plain-English explanation above
- Corrected at inspection:
- No
- Correction date:
- Jul 10, 2025
- Correction verified:
- Jul 24, 2025
- Technical assistance given:
- Yes
Medium Low · Jul 10, 2025 · Inspection
746.901(4) - Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2985)
One out of six caregivers did not have an affidavit available for review
In plain English: The center must keep a file at the center for each employee, caregiver, substitute, and volunteer, available during operating hours. It must include items such as start and end dates, proof of age and education qualifications, the required state affidavit forms (Forms 2985 and 2912), training records, proof that background checks were requested, and a copy of a photo ID. Official rule text
- Corrected at inspection:
- No
- Correction date:
- Jul 17, 2025
- Correction verified:
- Jul 17, 2025
- Technical assistance given:
- No
Medium High · Jul 10, 2025 · Inspection
746.1605(1) - Child/Caregiver Ratio - 18 Months Difference in Age
A fourteen-month old infant was grouped with a forty month old child.
In plain English: In a center with 13 or more children in care, infants may be grouped with older children only if the oldest child in the group is no more than 18 months older than the youngest. Centers with 12 or fewer children in care may combine ages under a separate rule. Official rule text
- Corrected at inspection:
- No
- Correction date:
- Jul 10, 2025
- Correction verified:
- Jul 24, 2025
- Technical assistance given:
- No
High · May 9, 2025 · Inspection
746.1205(a)(4) - Supervision ensures each child’s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child’s on going activity
One caregiver with a condition was observed supervising two infant classrooms by themselves.
Plain-English explanation above
- Corrected at inspection:
- No
- Correction date:
- May 9, 2025
- Correction verified:
- May 21, 2025
- Technical assistance given:
- Yes
Medium High · May 9, 2025 · Inspection
746.3407(8) - Garbage Inaccessible to Children; Maintained in Sanitary Manner
Three live ant beds were observed on the playground structure.
In plain English: The center must clean, repair, and maintain its building, grounds, and equipment to protect children's health. This includes sanitizing toys that children put in their mouths, keeping garbage out of children's reach, keeping floors, walls, and ceilings clean and in good repair, and labeling cleaning supplies and storing them away from food and out of children's reach. Official rule text
- Corrected at inspection:
- No
- Correction date:
- May 16, 2025
- Correction verified:
- May 21, 2025
- Technical assistance given:
- No
High · May 9, 2025 · Inspection
746.1003(1) - Director Responsibilities - Operate in Compliance
The director is struggling to maintain compliance and ensuring that the operation is ran in a safe manner. The director is often away from the operation and is unaware of the concerns observed. Children are seen opening doors and running out of classrooms and the caregivers are having a hard time with classroom management. The operation is starting to have repeated citations and I have discussed my concerns with the director multiple times and no progress has been made.
In plain English: The director must make sure the center's daily operation and all employees follow the minimum standards, that staff assignments match their skills and training, and that employees are supervised. Caregivers may not be regularly scheduled for more than ten hours of direct child care in a 24-hour period, and qualified substitutes must be called in when needed to meet the standards. Official rule text
- Corrected at inspection:
- No
- Correction date:
- May 9, 2025
- Correction verified:
- May 21, 2025
- Technical assistance given:
- Yes
High · May 9, 2025 · Inspection
745.635(3) - AP Background ck determination - If provisionally eligible w/conditions or eligible w/conditions you must restrict duties per conditions/restrictions
An operation violated a condition when a caregiver with a provisional was alone in the infant classroom during nap time. This was corrected during the inspection when another caregiver returned from lunch break and went into the classroom.
In plain English: If the state's background check unit finds a person ineligible, the operation must immediately remove that person from the operation and confirm it received the notice. If the person is eligible or provisionally eligible with conditions, the operation must limit the person's duties to follow those conditions. Official rule text
- Corrected at inspection:
- No
- Correction date:
- May 9, 2025
- Correction verified:
- May 21, 2025
- Technical assistance given:
- Yes
High · Apr 17, 2025 · Inspection
746.2805(3) - Prohibited Punishments - Grabbing and Pulling
While I was driving on the street getting ready to turn into the daycare parking lot I observed a caregiver grab a child by one arm, completely lifting the child off the ground and proceeded to walk the child to another caregiver who was by the side door and that caregiver also lifted that child up by one arm and took them inside. The teacher was by themselves outside on the playground and was transitioning the children from outside.
In plain English: No child may be treated in a harsh, cruel, or unusual way. Banned methods include physical punishment or threats of it, punishment tied to food, naps, or toilet training, grabbing or pulling a child, yelling at or humiliating a child, and putting a child in a locked or dark room. Official rule text
- Corrected at inspection:
- No
- Correction date:
- Apr 17, 2025
- Correction verified:
- Apr 29, 2025
- Technical assistance given:
- Yes
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High · Apr 9, 2025 · Inspection
746.2401(7) - Basic Requirements for Infants - Never Unsupervised
During the walk through I observed one caregiver walking between both infant classrooms supervising the children. There was three infants in one classroom and one six month old in the other infant classroom. The same caregiver also walked completely out of the infant room to let in a parent and caregiver.
In plain English: Infant care must include regular care by the same caregiver when possible, individual attention such as talking, playing, and holding, comforting infants who are upset, and prompt attention to feeding and diapering. The area must be kept free of objects infants or toddlers could choke on, and an infant may never be left unsupervised. Official rule text
- Corrected at inspection:
- No
- Correction date:
- Apr 9, 2025
- Correction verified:
- Apr 17, 2025
- Technical assistance given:
- Yes
Medium High · Oct 31, 2024 · Inspection
746.1013(a) - Director's Absence - Qualified Caregiver in Charge
During the follow-up inspection I asked the two caregivers present who was in charge when the director is not present and both caregivers did not know that someone has to be in charge when the director is not present. Both caregivers stated I get here when there's already children, how can i be in charge.
In plain English: Whenever the director is away during operating hours, a qualified caregiver or director must be named to be in charge, and that person must know their duties and for how long, have the information needed to contact parents and authorities, and have authority to run the center. All employees must know who is in charge, and for a long absence the center must name someone who meets director qualifications and report that person to the state. Official rule text
- Corrected at inspection:
- No
- Correction date:
- Oct 31, 2024
- Correction verified:
- Nov 12, 2024
- Technical assistance given:
- Yes
High · Oct 22, 2024 · Inspection
746.1205(a)(4) - Supervision ensures each child’s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child’s on going activity
During the follow-up inspection, I observed two children ages nine and six siting in the front toddler classroom by themselves. The two children did have a tablet and when I asked them were there teacher was the nine year old stated my mom works here and thats why I am here. When I approached the parent who is also the cook she stated the two children should have been sitting in the classroom with the school age teacher. I also observed an eleven year old child sitting in a dark office laying on a couch. When I asked the child what was wrong, he stated he was not feeling good. There was no teacher supervising the child. At 3:26 pm a caregiver brought the child out of the office and took them to the classroom.
Plain-English explanation above
- Corrected at inspection:
- No
- Correction date:
- Oct 22, 2024
- Correction verified:
- Oct 31, 2024
- Technical assistance given:
- Yes
High · Oct 10, 2024 · Inspection
746.1205(a)(4) - Supervision ensures each child’s safety, well-being, including physical proximity and auditory or visual awareness of each child’s on going activity
While waiting for someone to answer the front door I observed the owner/director running passed the front door and back into the hallway were the classrooms were. I thought the director was coming to open the door for me but instead ran into a hallway. When another caregiver finally opened the door I conducted my walk through and asked the director why she ran passed the door. She initial stated that was not her and then said she went to the front desk to get something and immediately came back to the children. During the time that she ran to her desk, no other caregiver stepped in to be with the children.
Plain-English explanation above
- Corrected at inspection:
- No
- Correction date:
- Oct 10, 2024
- Correction verified:
- Oct 22, 2024
- Technical assistance given:
- Yes
Medium · Oct 10, 2024 · Inspection
746.2207(a) - Screen Time Activities - Not Used for Under Two
A child under the age of twenty-four months was observed watching coco melon. This was corrected during the inspection when I observed the director turn the television off.
In plain English: Centers may not use screen time for children under two. For older children, screen time may only add to other activities, not replace them, and it must be tied to planned learning goals, age-appropriate, no more than one hour a day, free of ads and violence, and not used during meals, snacks, naps, or rest times. Official rule text
- Corrected at inspection:
- No
- Correction date:
- Oct 10, 2024
- Correction verified:
- Oct 22, 2024
- Technical assistance given:
- No
High · Jun 4, 2024 · Inspection
746.605(12) - Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization
one out of five children did not have the emergency medical authorization to transport filled out on the 2936 form.
Plain-English explanation above · rule revised September 2024
- Corrected at inspection:
- No
- Correction date:
- Jun 7, 2024
- Correction verified:
- Jun 7, 2024
- Technical assistance given:
- Yes
Medium High · Jun 4, 2024 · Inspection
746.1315(a) - Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric first aid with rescue breathing and choking.
One out of three staff members did not have a Pediatric CPR and Fist Aid certificate available for review.
Plain-English explanation above
- Corrected at inspection:
- No
- Correction date:
- Jun 28, 2024
- Correction verified:
- Jun 20, 2024
- Technical assistance given:
- Yes
Medium High · Jun 4, 2024 · Inspection
746.1205(a)(3) - Responsibilities of Caregivers - Know children's names and ages
Toddler caregiver did not know the age of the children and the information was not posted showing each child's name and age. This was corrected during inspection when the director gave the caregiver the children's information and posted it on the wall.
Plain-English explanation above
- Corrected at inspection:
- Yes
- Correction date:
- Jun 4, 2024
- Technical assistance given:
- Yes
Medium High · Jun 4, 2024 · Inspection
746.1315(b) - Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric CPR
One out of three staff members did not have a Pediatric CPR and Fist Aid certificate available for review.
Plain-English explanation above
- Corrected at inspection:
- No
- Correction date:
- Jun 28, 2024
- Correction verified:
- Jun 20, 2024
- Technical assistance given:
- Yes
Medium Low · Jun 4, 2024 · Inspection
746.605(3) - Required Admission Information - Date of Admission
Two out of five children were missing a date of admission. This was corrected during inspection when the director added the admission dates on the form.
Plain-English explanation above · rule revised September 2024
- Corrected at inspection:
- Yes
- Correction date:
- Jun 4, 2024
- Technical assistance given:
- No
Medium High · Dec 1, 2023 · Inspection
746.3701 - Safety - Areas Free From Hazards
The small playground had multiple wooden boards that is accessible to children and the main playground area had a broken fence.
Plain-English explanation above · rule revised September 2024
- Corrected at inspection:
- No
- Correction date:
- Dec 29, 2023
- Correction verified:
- Jan 2, 2024
- Technical assistance given:
- Yes
Medium High · Dec 1, 2023 · Inspection
746.5617(a)(3) - Required Equipment in Vehicles - Information About Facility
The transportation vehicle does not have the child-care center's name or telephone number on the outside of the vehicle.
In plain English: Each vehicle used to transport children must carry a list of the children on board, their emergency medical authorization forms, parent and emergency phone numbers, the center's name and phone number, a fire extinguisher approved by a fire marshal, and a first-aid kit. The driver must have a current driver's license. Official rule text
- Corrected at inspection:
- No
- Correction date:
- Jan 2, 2024
- Correction verified:
- Jan 2, 2024
- Technical assistance given:
- Yes
High · Dec 1, 2023 · Inspection
746.5625(a) - Electronic Child Safety Alarm - is equipped in each vehicle
The transportation vehicle did not have an electric saftey alarm.
In plain English: A vehicle that seats eight or more, is used to transport children, and was bought or leased on or after December 31, 2013, must have an electronic child alarm that is installed and maintained per the maker's instructions and used on every trip with children. Before turning off the alarm at the rear of the vehicle, the driver or a designated employee must account for every child and walk through the vehicle to check that no child is left inside. Official rule text
- Corrected at inspection:
- No
- Correction date:
- Jan 2, 2024
- Correction verified:
- Jan 5, 2024
- Technical assistance given:
- Yes
Medium High · Dec 1, 2023 · Inspection
746.3403 - Documentation of Annual Sanitation Inspection
The sanitation inspection was not available for review.
Official text of rule 746.3403
- Corrected at inspection:
- No
- Correction date:
- Jan 2, 2024
- Correction verified:
- Jan 12, 2024
- Technical assistance given:
- No