USD 260 Latchkey Stone Creek

K.A.R. 28-4-587 Staff member qualifications; professional development training; staffing requirements. (j) (2) (B) Each operator shall maintain additional qualified staff to ensure that the supervisory ratio of one staff member for each 15 children and youth is not exceeded.

Upon the surveyor's arrival at 8:28am, the supervisory ratio of one staff member for each 15 children and youth was exceeded when one staff member was present with 46 children in the gym, one staff member was present with 17 children in the community room, and the program director was in the office with two children. (Complaint survey — To investigate a complaint — 26-000885)

K.A.R. 28-4-588 Program plan, program of activities, and use of space. (d) (1) Each operator shall provide a sufficient quantity of program materials, equipment, furnishings, and supplies to keep each child and youth engaged and to carry out the program of activities.

A sufficient quantity of program materials, equipment, furnishings, and supplies were not provided to keep each child and youth engaged and to carry out the program of activities when there were no tables, chairs, games, or equipment observed in the gym and community room for 65 children and they were expected to sit on the gym floor for at least 15 minutes until they were released to go to school. (Complaint survey — To investigate a complaint — 26-000885)

K.A.R. 28-4-587 Staff member qualifications; professional development training; staffing requirements. (j) (1) Each operator shall have a sufficient number of staff members on duty to supervise the children and youth during all hours of operation and to provide for their health, safety, and well-being. Each operator shall provide staff coverage if there is an emergency or a staff member absence.

Additional staff coverage was not provided to supervise the children and youth during all hours of operation for the health, safety, and well being of the children when at least three staff members leave the building twenty minutes before the end of the morning session and children were observed wrestling with their friends and climbing on the bleacher with one staff member present. (Complaint survey — To investigate a complaint — 26-000885)

K.A.R. 28-4-590 Health-related requirements. (b) (4) Each operator and each staff member who has regular, ongoing contact with children or youth shall attest to that individual's health status on a form supplied by the department or approved by the secretary. The health status form shall indicate if the individual has been exposed to an active case of tuberculosis or has been diagnosed with suspect or confirmed active tuberculosis. Each individual shall update the health status form annually or more often if there is a change in the health status or if the individual has been exposed to an active case of tuberculosis.

Three staff do not have updated health status forms on file. (Licensing survey — Annual Survey — 25-003740)