CUP CHILDCARE (Cupid -- Central United Protestant Church Daycare)

Observation

5)b)i)ii) During outdoor play on the toddler playground, there were a few occasions that the staff were out of ratio. One staff went inside the classroom several times to get water for children, leaving only 2 staff outside with 19 children and during this time, another staff left the playground briefly to get a child from their parent when they arrived, so only 1 staff person was on the playground with the children. Required ratios are 1:7 with a maximum group size of 14 or 1:5 with a maximum group size of 15. There were 19 children present on the toddler playground from both the mixed-age classroom (licensed for 24-36 months old) and the toddler classroom (licensed for 12-29 months). The children were playing and running around within the same area and were not separated into groups. This exceeds the maximum group size of 14 children with 2 staff or 15 children with 3 staff.