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Schoolhouse Playcare - Highbush

605 Strouds Lane, Pickering ON L1V 5M5 · Child Care Inspections

2 inspections

  1. Routine

    3 infractions

    • Toys, teaching materials, surfaces, equipment, and/or furniture maintained clean and in good repair
      • Operator fail to maintain toys, teaching equipment, materials, surfaces, and/or furniture clean and/or in good repair
      • Operator must maintain toys, teaching equipment, materials, surfaces, and/or furniture clean and in good repair
    • Appropriate cleaning and disinfectant solutions present at diapering table/mat
      • Fail to provide required cleaning and disinfectant solutions at diaper change tables
      • Operator must provide required cleaning and disinfectant solutions at diaper change tables
    • Natural items are cleaned and disinfected or discarded weekly as per Durham Region Health Department recommendations
      • Fail to discard natural items weekly (items that cannot be properly cleaned/disinfected)
      • Operator must discard natural items weekly (items that cannot be properly cleaned/disinfected)
  2. Routine

    7 infractions

    • Absorbent materials laundered/cleaned and disinfected/discarded weekly (e.g. slip covers, dress-up clothes, plush toys, puzzles, cardboard)
      • Fail to ensure absorbent materials laundered/cleaned and disinfected/discarded weekly
      • Operator must ensure absorbent materials laundered/cleaned and disinfected/discarded weekly
    • Toys, teaching materials, surfaces, equipment, and/or furniture maintained clean and in good repair
      • Operator fail to maintain toys, teaching equipment, materials, surfaces, and/or furniture clean and/or in good repair
      • Operator must maintain toys, teaching equipment, materials, surfaces, and/or furniture clean and in good repair
    • Floors, walls, ceilings, and other building fixtures maintained clean and in good repair
      • Operator fail to maintain floors, walls, ceilings, or other building fixtures clean and in good repair
      • Operator must maintain floors, walls, ceilings and/or other building fixtures clean and in good repair
    • Carpets/area rugs and fabric upholstered furniture maintained in a sanitary condition
      • Fail to steam clean/shampoo carpets and fabric upholstered furniture minimum 2x/yr or as often as needed
      • Fail to steam clean/shampoo infant/toddler room carpets/area rugs minimum monthly or more frequently as required to maintain them in a sanitary condition
      • Operator must steam clean/shampoo carpets and fabric upholstered furniture minimum 2x/yr or as often as needed
      • Operator must steam clean/shampoo infant/toddler room carpets/area rugs minimum monthly or more frequently as required to maintain them in a sanitary condition
    • Diaper change table/mat/safety straps properly designed and in good repair
      • Fail to provide a non-absorbent, smooth, and easily cleanable change pad/mat/safety straps
      • Operator must provide non-absorbent, smooth, and easily cleanable change pad/mat/safety straps
    • Natural items are cleaned and disinfected or discarded weekly as per Durham Region Health Department recommendations
      • Fail to discard natural items weekly (items that cannot be properly cleaned/disinfected)
      • Operator must discard natural items weekly (items that cannot be properly cleaned/disinfected)
    • No condemnation/seizure required
      • Under the authority of the Health Protection and Promotion Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.H.7, sec. 19(1) to (4), which states: A Public Health Inspector who is of the opinion, upon reasonable and probable grounds, that a condition of any substance, thing, plant, animal other than man is a health hazard, may seize or cause the seizure of the substance, thing, plant or animal. Where equipment is seized under this section and the Public Health Inspector is of the opinion, upon reasonable and probable grounds, that the condition of the equipment is a health hazard, he or she may destroy or dispose of the equipment or cause it to be destroyed or disposed of without further examination or investigation.