An incident and its follow-up

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The daily written record and the serious-occurrence trail: the time you became aware, the Ministry report with its reference, and the posting dates. Readiness shows a report that went past 24 hours.

The regulation requires a daily written record summarizing any incident affecting the health, safety or well-being of a child or a staff member, and, for a child's incident, a parent notified unless already told of it under s. 36 (s. 37). The follow-up is yours: "Supervisor's review" moves the incident to reviewed; a corrective action is given to a named person with a date, who sees it under "Follow-ups given to you" and marks it done; "Close the incident" closes it once every action is done, and for a serious occurrence once the Ministry report is recorded. A serious occurrence (s. 1: the death of a child; abuse, neglect or an allegation; a life-threatening injury or illness; a child missing or temporarily unsupervised; an unplanned disruption of normal operations that poses a risk) is reported to an inspector or program adviser within 24 hours of the licensee or supervisor becoming aware of it (s. 38(1)(b)); the "Ministry reporting" card keeps when you became aware, the CCLS report and reference, and the posting dates. An injury also needs an accident report with a copy to a parent (s. 36(4)), printed from the form. For an allegation of abuse or neglect the form asks "Is it about someone who works here?": choose the person, or "Not someone who works here"; the person named does not see the record or what is done about it unless they are an owner, and each owner still reads every allegation.