Joy Harvey
A licensed family child care in New Castle, Delaware 19720
107 Memorial Drive, New Castle, Delaware 19720. (302) 598-0899.
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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 Sep 25, 2026; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.
12 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
12 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2026. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.
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| 2025 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 2026 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct |
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.
Sep 25, 2026: unannounced Full Compliance Review1 violation
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Outdoor Area
“Ensure outdoor space is free from hazards. The following needs to be addressed: --The handrail on the back steps needs to be repaired or removed. -- Clear up some of the clutter”
Sep 10, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review7 violations
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Children’s Files
“Ensure Child Files are complete. -Child #3 needs Blood Lead Screening Results - Child #4 needs updated Infant Feeding Schedule. - Child #7 needs Emergency Card with all pertinent information, Health Appraisal, Current Immunization Record, Blood Screener Results, and Parent Permissions Form.”
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Daily Attendance of Children
“Daily Attendance must be recorded and accurate. Provider was not able to produce attendance when requested. Submit 1 weeks’ worth of attendance records to OCCL.”
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Infants’ Records
“Ensure all infants in care have daily sheets recorded and distributed to families. Submit 1 week’s worth of daily records to OCCL.”
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Indoor Space
“The care space must be thinned out of materials, and they must be organized in order to maintain licensed capacity.”
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Fire Safety
“Ensure fire/evacuation drills are conducted monthly. Please submit the fire/evacuation drill log for September to OCCL.”
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Outdoor Area
“Remove hazards/clutter from the outdoor space. The space must be cleaned and organized.”
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Feeding of Infants
“Ensure infant feeding schedules are updated monthly. Submit the updated schedule for the one infant in care to OCCL.”
Sep 17, 2024: unannounced Full Compliance Review4 violations
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Hazardous Materials
“Ensure that air quality is tested every five years with radon testing kits. Current results expire 10/2024. The provider is prepared to conduct the tests over the weekend (10/20-22/2024”
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Fire Safety
“Obtain current fire extinguisher inspection. The current tag expired 08/2024”
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Diapering and Soiled Clothing
“Either deep clean or replace the diaper changing table pad in the bathroom. There is discoloration/build-up on the corners and folds.”
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Activities and Interactions
“Ensure that the program daily schedule is posted in the child care space.”
All 3 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 2026 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 1 violation cited |
| Sep 10, 2025 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 7 violations cited |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 4 violations cited |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Family Child Care.
- Ages served, in Delaware’s words: 6 weeks through 10 years.
- Takes part in: Child Care Food Program (meals reimbursed), Purchase of Care (state-subsidized child care).
- Licence number 106432.
- Capacity: 9 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?
- No facility injuries reported. 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 |
|---|---|
| Rebekah Mercer | Not given |
| Sherell Thomas | Not given |
| Joy Harvey This child care provider | Not given |
| Boys & Girls Club @ New Castle | Not given |
| YMCA of Delaware/New Castle | Not given |
| Latoya Jackson | Not given |
| Brickhouse Care Academy Corporation | Not given |
| Sara Hayton | Not given |
| Comforts of Home Preschool LLC | Not given |
| Teachable Moments | Not given |
| Seeds of Greatness Early Learning Center | Not given |
| Lorraine Cali | 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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