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Little Blessings Preschool and Childcare INC

A child care center in Van Buren, Arkansas 72956

3124 Alma Blvd, Van Buren, Arkansas 72956. (479) 474-9669.

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The short answer

The last 24 months 4 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Mar 2026. Most serious: Serious Deficiency. Every month

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What these words mean6
Inspection (survey)
A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
Deficiency, citation, violation
What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
The state’s most serious level
Each state grades findings on its own scale and in its own words, so the record counts a state’s findings at that state’s top level. Two states’ top levels aren’t the same thing, so the counts aren’t compared across states. Source: How this site reads each state’s scale.
Quality rating
Many states rate child care in a quality rating system that goes past the licensing rules, such as Texas Rising Star or Kentucky All STARS. Taking part is often voluntary, so a program with no rating hasn’t been rated low. Source: Each state’s quality rating system.
Licence status
Whether the state’s licence lets the place operate now, in the state’s own words: licensed, on probation (allowed to keep operating on conditions, after problems), provisional, pending or expired. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
Capacity
The most people the licence or certification lets the place care for at once: residents, children, beds or apartments, as the state counts them. It isn’t how many are there now. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.

What did inspectors find?

20 visits in the last three years, the latest on Mar 10, 2026.

4 deficiencies cited in the last three years, 2 of them serious.

Arkansas lists 1 complaint, received Mar 6, 2026; it lists the regulations its investigation cited.

Serious Deficiency: At no time shall children be left unsupervised or unattended. The child care center shall provide additional staff for any temporary absence of primary child caring staff for activities such as breaks, meal preparation, transportation, etc., Mar 10, 2026

Serious Deficiency: At no time shall children be left unsupervised or unattended. The child care center shall provide additional staff for any temporary absence of primary child caring staff for activities such as breaks, meal preparation, transportation, etc., Oct 20, 2025

Source:

Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Facility visits: regulations inspected and deficiencies cited, Arkansas eLicensing and Facility complaints, Arkansas eLicensing. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

4 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Mar 2026. Most serious: Serious Deficiency. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.

4 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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2023 Dec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNov

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No visit on record Visited, nothing cited A stronger orange is more serious, on its source’s own levels, read onto four bands: from the least serious it publishes to the most
Source:

Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.

Each deficiency, in its source’s words

Grouped by visit, newest first, with the level its source gave it.

Source:

Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Facility visits: regulations inspected and deficiencies cited, Arkansas eLicensing. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Mar 10, 2026: complaint Visit1 deficiency

  • At no time shall children be left unsupervised or unattended. The child care center shall provide additional staff for any temporary absence of primary child caring staff for activities such as breaks, meal preparation, transportation, etc.

    Rule 300.301.8. Serious Deficiency. From a complaint. Correction date, as Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood recorded it: Mar 30, 2026.

Oct 20, 2025: revisit Complaint3 deficiencies

  • At no time shall children be left unsupervised or unattended. The child care center shall provide additional staff for any temporary absence of primary child caring staff for activities such as breaks, meal preparation, transportation, etc.

    Rule 300.301.8. Serious Deficiency. From a complaint. Correction date, as Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood recorded it: Nov 3, 2025.

  • The use of cell phones by staff while supervising children shall be prohibited except in emergency situations.

    Rule 300.301.9. Non-Compliant. From a complaint. Correction date, as Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood recorded it: Nov 3, 2025.

  • The child care facility shall maintain a record for each child in care which shall be on site. Records for children no longer enrolled may be maintained off site. Children’s records shall contain the following information:

    Rule 600.604.1.i. Non-Compliant. From a complaint.

All 20 visits on record
Visits on record
DateVisitWhat the record says
Mar 10, 2026Child Record Review Visit; Monitor Visit; Staff Record Review Visit; TransportationNo deficiencies cited
Mar 10, 2026Complaint Visit1 deficiency cited, 1 serious
Jan 20, 2026Monitor VisitNo deficiencies cited
Dec 31, 2025Complaint VisitNo deficiencies cited
Dec 10, 2025Revisit ComplaintNo deficiencies cited
Nov 17, 2025Complaint VisitNo deficiencies cited
Oct 23, 2025Complaint VisitNo deficiencies cited
Oct 23, 2025Complaint VisitNo deficiencies cited
Oct 21, 2025Complaint VisitNo deficiencies cited
Oct 20, 2025Monitor VisitNo deficiencies cited
Oct 20, 2025Revisit Complaint3 deficiencies cited, 1 serious
Sep 29, 2025Complaint VisitNo deficiencies cited
Sep 4, 2025Revisit ComplaintNo deficiencies cited
Aug 21, 2025Monitor VisitNo deficiencies cited
Aug 11, 2025Complaint VisitNo deficiencies cited
Apr 24, 2025Child Record Review Visit; Monitor Visit; Staff Record Review VisitNo deficiencies cited
Nov 6, 2024Monitor VisitNo deficiencies cited
Aug 21, 2024Monitor VisitNo deficiencies cited
Apr 10, 2024Child Record Review Visit; Monitor Visit; Staff Record Review VisitNo deficiencies cited
Nov 22, 2023Monitor VisitNo deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Child Care Center.
  • Provider type: Center Based.
  • Voucher Participant (School Readiness Assistance).
  • CACFP Facility (Child and Adult Care Food Program).
  • Approved capacity by age group: Infant/Toddler License Type 23, Preschool License Type 124, School Age License Type 92.
  • Capacity: 239 children.
Source:

Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Find Child Care search and facility pages, Arkansas eLicensing. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Arkansas acted against it?

  • No corrective action agreements listed by Arkansas.
Source:

Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Facility corrective action agreements, Arkansas eLicensing. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

Who does the caring?

  • Arkansas doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual providers. State rules set staff-to-child ratios by age.

Who owns it?

  • Arkansas’s record lists no owner for this provider.
Source:

Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Find Child Care search and facility pages, Arkansas eLicensing. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

How is it rated?

  • Better Beginnings: Level 3.
Source:

Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Find Child Care search and facility pages, Arkansas eLicensing. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 20 child care providers in Crawford County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 0.5; this one had 4.
Source:

Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood, Facility visits: regulations inspected and deficiencies cited, Arkansas eLicensing. Checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 20 in Crawford County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Van Buren 20
Kid Success LLC dba Pediatrics Plus Developmental Preschool0
King Elementary Preschool0
First Place Academy4
Tate Elementary Preschool0
Hamilton Head Start0
KidSpace22
North Hills Children’s House0
Tate’s Tots2
Little Blessings Preschool and Childcare INC This child care provider4
Little Smarties Pre-Pact Academy2
Covenant Kids Academy3

What the record doesn’t say

  • Arkansas’s visit records cover the last three years only.
  • Arkansas lists the regulation each deficiency cited, not what the licensing staff saw.
  • Arkansas lists complaints and the regulations their investigations cited, not what was alleged.

Sources

If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: Arkansas Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood. Arkansas’s own record is on ardhslicensing.my.site.com. If Hearth Record copied something wrongly, it will fix it and log the correction publicly, with its date: how corrections work.

Source:

This copy of the record was made on Nov 5, 2026.

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An example nursing home

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Not fully inspected in over two years (CMS flag)

11 health citations at the latest inspection cycle

The state average is 14.3.

Source:

CMS, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

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