A homeless-shelter nonprofit that landed $500 million in city contracts is providing space that endangers small children, according to city records.

Units operated by Childrens Community Services Inc. allegedly have damaged cribs, lack child-proof outlet covers and fail to offer written instructions on safety issues for residents, according to inspections performed by Department of Homeless Services and obtained by The Post through a Freedom of Information Law request.

The reviews found CCS staff also failed to conduct needed screenings to ensure residents get social services and counseling and missed goals for moving needy New Yorkers into more permanent housing.

“There are 60,000 people in our homeless shelters, including over 22,000 children — they deserve better,” said city Comptroller Scott Stringer. “Failing to disclose critical performance evaluation information about a homeless shelter puts the safety of vulnerable children and families at risk and undermines the integrity of city government.”

Inspectors examined one hotel in The Bronx and five hotels in Brooklyn, but their exact locations were redacted from the reports. The operations by CSS in both boroughs were hit with “poor” ratings.

Despite the scorching reviews, the money has continued to flow to CSS, documents show.

The Department of Homeless Services awarded CCS two more contracts worth $21.3 million in October, though the payments have not yet been approved by the city comptroller.

“They’ve got one of the largest contracts I’ve ever seen and these inspections show they’re not doing good work,” said a top official at another nonprofit that works with the homeless. “The idea that they continue to get new contracts from the city when their previous work is not up to snuff is bewildering. It’s an outrage.”

Officials told The Post they’ve ordered CCS to shape up.

“Any failure to make the necessary changes will result in consequences, and we’re closely monitoring this provider under our new contract,” said Department spokeswoman Arianna Fishman.

Currently, 11,400 New Yorkers live in 89 hotel shelters, a third of which — 30 — are run by CCS. Between 2015-2017, the nonprofit scored $517.6 million in homeless- and shelter-related contracts.

The heavily redacted reviews of CCS’s Brooklyn and Bronx hotel operations were scathing.

City inspectors in July 2017 visited CCS’s Brooklyn operation, which consisted of 235 rooms rented out of five different hotels.
Out of the 50 rooms examined, city workers found major deficiencies in a quarter of them.

Some “13 of the 50 units inspected had major physical deficiencies, safety and maintenance concerns for items that were not in good repair,” inspectors wrote in a letter sent to CCS’s top executive, Thomas Bransky, and “10 of the 50 units had baby safety issues including missing safe sleep flyers, damaged cribs and missing child proof outlet covers.”

The letter also reported major shortcomings in case paperwork. CCS staff failed to compete a crucial screening for 43 of 50 inspected cases, potentially depriving New Yorkers of needed services, experts said.

And the letter noted that during the last three months of 2017, CCS struggled to place residents into permanent housing.

It only found housing for 15 of 81 families — a miserly 18.5 percent. That’s down from the 49 families it placed during the previous three months.

The department issued a scorching review of CCS’s smaller 54-room hotel operation in The Bronx, too.

Nearly every case file reviewed lacked reams of needed paperwork. Nine of the 10 files lacked key evaluations that shelter staff are expected to complete within two days.

Additionally, the shelter’s staff failed to get a single family into permanent housing during the last three months of 2017.

CCS “must [identify] all housing ready clients, explore all housing options, and develop an exit plan for each family to exit shelter,” DHS wrote to Bransky.

A rep for CCS referred questions to the city.