Grace Early Education Center

Based on information obtained in a DFPS investigation, the director did not fulfill their director responsibilities as they were aware of a serious allegation about a caregiver but did not take action to mitigate the risk while the allegation is being investigated by removing the caregiver from access to children.

During the inspection it was observed in the stored children's medications that there was expired medication for five children: children's ibuprofen that expired November 2025, children's ibuprofen that expired August 2025, Benadryl that expired 2025, infants tylenol that expired September 2025 and an epi pen that expired November 2025. The medication that was expired was set to the side to return to the parents. The epi pen belongs to a child with a food allergy emergency plan and needs replaced.

The last documented health inspection was conducted 11/21/24. There was not documentation of a more recent inspection.

Expired medication for two children in care had not been disposed of or returned to the parent. Note: This was corrected during the inspection when the medication was removed from the children's medication storage and set to the side to return to the parent at pick up.

Information obtained in the investigation supported an injury occurred in care in December that the parent was not notified about via phone call or at pickup the day it occurred. There was no evidence to substantiate that a bruise on a child was the result of a known biting incident the operation did not notify the parent about or that there was any other known incident that caused injury to the child.

The operational policies did not include the criteria used to determine when extreme weather conditions pose a significant health risk that prohibits or limits outdoor play

The written annual CPSC certification had not been completed since 1/31/22. Note: This was corrected during the inspection by the director completing it.

Notification was not provided to CCR when a controlling person left employment at the operation back in April. Note: This was corrected during the inspection when the director verified the information and inactivated the controlling person in their online provider account.

Three food allergy plans were observed not to have a parent and/or doctor signature on them. One plan required an epi pen which was on site but expired.

3 of 8 children's records evaluated were missing addressed for emergency contacts that were listed.

Mulch in one of the playground structure areas was not maintained at the proper depth. Very little mulch was observed.

Evidence gathered in the investigation substantiated that incident reports were not completed for incidents that occurred that required them.

Information gathered in the investigation substantiated that there have been at least three situations where children were found unsupervised out of their classrooms which is a required notification to Child Care Regulation.

Information gathered in the investigation substantiated that incidents occurred at the operation where children left their classroom without the caregivers knowing and were found by other staff.

I observed expired medication. Note: This was corrected during the inspection when the medication was disposed of or set aside to return to the parent.

The operational policies do not include the promotion of indoor and outdoor physical activity section requirement that was added to minimum standards last year.