Head Start bus driver suspended

According to the Maysville Ledger Independent, officials with the Licking Valley Head Start program have suspended a bus driver after a 4-year-old child was left on a bus Tuesday morning.
Licking Valley Executive Director Judy Planck, and Toby Miller, director of the Licking Valley Head Start Program, confirmed the girl was found on the bus by personnel of Cheap's Chevrolet in Flemingsburg between 8;30 a.m. and 9 a.m. The bus was at the dealership for regular maintenance service when the child was discovered.
Miller said children are dropped off at the Head Start facility on High Street by 8:30 a.m., and she was at the garage with the child before 9 a.m.
Miller said the parents of the child came to the Head Start location and took the child home with them. "We think the child fell asleep, " Planck said, noting the state day care licensing agency, and the Department of Community Based Services, both entities of the Cabinet for Family and Children Services, have been notified about the incident.
Miller also confirmed all agencies involved in the regulation of Head Start programs and day care facilities were notified immediately.
Bus drivers are required to walk the center isle of the bus and then call into the agencies to say it was cleared, Miller said. The buses do not have video cameras on them.
Miller said when questioned about clearing the bus after the morning route, Blythe told her she did not see the child anywhere. The bus monitor on Blythe's bus was assisting a special needs child when the children left the bus and was unable to help Blythe clear the bus, Miller said.