Beach Buddies School Age Program
A licensed child care center in Lewes, Delaware 19958
31174 Learning Ln, Lewes, Delaware 19958. (302) 644-1585.
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The short answer
Record last released by Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing on Oct 23, 2026.
Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.
What these words mean4
- 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.
- 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?
3 visits with violations in the last three years, the latest on Feb 16, 2026; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.
11 violations cited in the last three years.
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
When those violations happened
11 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 2026. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.
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Hover or focus a month to read it.
Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.
Each violation, in its source’s words
Grouped by visit, newest first, with the level its source gave it.
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
Feb 16, 2026: unannounced Full Compliance Review5 violations
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Personnel Files
“Ensure staff files are completed, Staff #1 and Staff #2 needs job descriptions, Staff #2 needs an orientation and a two reference letters.”
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Hazardous Materials
“Ensure hazardous materials are non-accessible to children in care. Locked the cabinet in the boy’s bathroom that contains hazardous materials. (This was corrected when the cabinet was locked)”
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Heating and Cooling
“Ensure air vents are cleaned and dusted in all classrooms. Submit photograph of dusted removed from vents.”
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Indoor Space
“Ensure indoor space are in good repair. Repair hole in the celling in room 28. Submit pictures of the repair”
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License Renewal
“Ensure to submit the renewal application 60 days before license expiration. (This was corrected when the application was submitted during the visit)”
Feb 3, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review3 violations
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Personnel Files
“Ensure staff files are completed. Staff #1 needs DEEDS certification on file, OCCL health and safety training, Staff #2 needs four reference letters, a release of employment with service letter attempts, Staff#3 needs a DEED certification, CPR/FA certification, a comprehensive background check with eligiblity determined, Staff#4 needs letter of eligiblity, Staff #5 needs orientation, service letter, Staff #6 needs a letter of eligiblity, adult abuse check. Send copy to OCCL.”
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Parents Right to Know
“Ensure parent right to know is completed. Send a copy to OCCL.”
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Indoor Space
“Ensure classrooms walls, surface and floors are clean and in good repair. Arrange or restore the Pink Classroom back to operation according to the Delacare regulation, Blue Classroom 1st on left windows need repainting, baseboard is loose, clean the vent from dust, Blue Classroom 2nd on Left paint is peeling, baseboard is loose. Remove tape residue from the walls. Send picture or video.”
Feb 19, 2024: unannounced Full Compliance Review3 violations
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Ratios, Group Size, and Supervision
The inspectors’ words, 115 words
“Ensure direct supervision of all children in care. Upon arrival at the center four children was observed leaving the Terrific Tigers, Two children entered the Lightning Lion, no staff was in the lobby or the Lion room. Two children entered the Lucky Lynx with no staff. This was corrected when a staff brought the children back to the Tiger classroom. Later, another child left the Tiger room and entered the lobby to go to a classroom with no staff present.. Another time a staff allow children to go back and forth from the Lynx room and the Tiger room. A conversation was held with staff about supervising children in the door threshold was not allowed.”
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Personnel Files
“Complete files are needed for Staff #1 to Staff 12. Staff #1 needs annual training hours, annual abuse and neglect, professional development and an updated comprehensive background check. Staff #2 needs a porefessional plan, a job description, adult abuse check, a health appraisal, release of employment and a service letter. Staff #3 to Staff #9 needs annual training hours, annual abuse and neglect, professional development plan. Staff #10 needs a job description, adult abuse check, release of employment and a service letter. Staff #12 needs a complete file.”
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Child Files
“A complete child file is needed for Child #7 and Child #10. Parent right to know and screen time permission is needed.”
All 3 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 2026 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 5 violations cited |
| Feb 3, 2025 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 3 violations cited |
| Feb 19, 2024 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 3 violations cited |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Child Care Center.
- Ages served, in Delaware’s words: Kindergarten through 12 years.
- Takes part in: Child Care Food Program (meals reimbursed), Purchase of Care (state-subsidized child care).
- Licence number 1058557.
- Capacity: 95 children.
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
Has Delaware acted against it?
- No complaint investigations in the last three years.
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Complaint Reviews and Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
Who does the caring?
- Delaware doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual providers.
Who owns it?
- Delaware’s open data doesn’t list owners.
How is it rated?
- 2021: 1 facility injury. No facility deaths reported.
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
How does it compare nearby?
- Providers aren’t compared: Delaware lists only the visits that found violations, so a count can’t tell a clean record from one never visited.
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
| Place | Violations cited in the last three years |
|---|---|
| Beach Buddies School Age Program This child care provider | Not given |
| Beach Babies Child Care | Not given |
| Lighthouse on the Shore Learning Center Inc. | Not given |
| Boys & Girls Club @ Love Creek | Not given |
| YMCA of De/Sussex Consortium | Not given |
| Little Vikings @ Sussex Consortium | Not given |
| Anna Campbell | Not given |
| Bethel Christian School | Not given |
| YMCA of Delaware/Lewes Elementary | Not given |
| Kelly Frech | Not given |
| Margaret H. Rollins Cdc @ Children’s Beach House | Not given |
| Child’s Play By the Bay | Not given |
What the record doesn’t say
- Delaware doesn’t grade violations by severity, so read what was cited.
- Delaware’s open data lists a visit only when a violation was cited there, so visits that found nothing aren’t shown.
- Delaware publishes five years of reviews and complaints; this page shows the last three.
- Delaware doesn’t publish staffing levels or owners for individual providers.
- Delaware lists only the visits that found violations, so a provider with none listed may not have been visited at all: no count of violations is used to headline, filter or compare its providers.
Sources
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Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities (iuzd-3dbt).
Released Oct 23, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily. Public Domain.
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Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information (wb83-pkcv).
Released Oct 23, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily. Public Domain.
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Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Complaint Reviews (pnbd-85r6).
Released Oct 23, 2026 and checked Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily. Public Domain.
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This copy of the record was made on Oct 24, 2026.
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