The Nazarene Daycare has already implemented most changes ordered by the Yukon government last week.

The order to comply with the territorial Child Care Act was issued after a five-year-old girl was able to walk away from the daycare unnoticed by staff last week.

A list of conditions to be met by the facility include:

• Accurate attendance records to be maintained at all times for all children;

• Staff must have a policy and procedure in place for transferring responsibility of a group of children from one worker to another;

• Staff must work with CCSU (Child Care Services Unit) to ensure implementation of policies and procedures for staff continues to provide for the safety of children;

• Fire doors are to be kept closed at all times;

• Door buzzers are to be installed and operational at all times the daycare is open for business;

• All current daycare staff must have proper documentation; and

• Staff at the daycare must work closely with the CCSU to develop and implement policy and procedure to ensure that all new staff have appropriate documentation prior to employment.

While the policy changes were ordered to be completed by Sept. 30, appropriate documentation must be provided by staff by today. The remaining orders were to be complete by June 30.

Pastor Norman Hajian of the Church of the Nazarene, which operates the daycare, said Wednesday most of the changes have been implemented.

They include letting the about-seven staff know they will not be scheduled if they don't have the documentation needed which includes a certificate level one in education, RCMP check, immunization, TB test, first aid training and a doctor's note stating they are able to work at a daycare.

Door buzzers were installed almost immediately after the young girl walked away from the Porter Creek daycare, and had been ordered before the incident had occurred.

'We'd already paid for them,' said Hajian, noting the daycare has no problem meeting the requirements of the order.

When the five-year-old left the facility, she walked out of the daycare and down Centennial Street toward her Porter Creek home.

Wanting to make sure she was safe, but not frighten her, Farley Hayes, who was heading down Centennial Street at the time, followed her until she got near the busy Wann Road, at Goody's gas bar and convenience store.

There, he and store staff were able to locate her family and keep her safe (and off Wann Road) until her mom and dad arrived.

'It's good that he was a good, honest guy,' Paul Jacobs, the girl's father, said in an interview after the incident of Hayes.

Staff at the daycare didn't realize the youngster was missing until her mother contacted them.

The territorial Department of Health and Social Services opted not to close the facility because of the changes made by the daycare and its co-operation with the department in looking at what happened. The impact the closure would have on parents was also considered by the department in looking at a temporary closure.

Hajian noted that in the more than 25 years the daycare has been open, there hasn't been a similar incident with the estimated more than 1,000 kids who have been cared for over the years.

The daycare has had between 125 and 150 staff members over the years.