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Boys & Girls Club @ New Castle

A licensed child care center in New Castle, Delaware 19720

19 Lambson Lane, New Castle, Delaware 19720. (302) 655-8569.

Delaware’s own record, on data.delaware.gov

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The short answer

Record last released by Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing on Oct 23, 2026.

The last 24 months 8 violations in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Mar 2026. Every month

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?

2 visits with violations in the last three years, the latest on Mar 13, 2026; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.

8 violations cited in the last three years.

Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.

When those violations happened

8 violations in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Mar 2026. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

8 violations by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 NovDec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct

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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 violation, in its source’s words

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

Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.

Mar 13, 2026: unannounced Full Compliance Review3 violations

  • Personnel Files

    The inspectors’ words, 113 words

    “Personnel files need to be complete. CPR/FA: Staff #1, 2, 5, 7 Administration of medication: Staff #2, 3, 6 Signed PD plan and annual training hours: Staff #1, 2, 3, 4, 7 Annual Abuse/Neglect: Staff #1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 Orientation: Staff #1, 2, 6 OCCL Health and Safety training: Staff #1, 2, 6 Application/Resume: Staff #2, 6 Job Description: Staff #2, 6 Declaration/Drug and Alcohol: Staff #1, 2, 6 References: Staff #1 (4), 2 (2), 6 (2 or 4) Adult Abuse Check: Staff #1, 2, 5, 6 Health appraisal with TB test: Staff #1, 2, 5, 6 Release of Employment/Service LEtters: Staff #2, 5, 6 ***Staff #7 out on medical leave***”

    Rule 30T. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jun 12, 2026.

  • Child Files

    “Children’s files must be complete. Child #4 and #9 need health appraisals, immunizations, and blood lead test results. Child #2 needs blood lead test results.”

    Rule 40T. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jun 11, 2026.

  • Child Care Activities

    “Children must have daily schedule posted that includes: Physical Play Outdoor activities/active indoor play Quiet activities/socialization There must also be a monthly activity plan posted.”

    Rule 91T. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jun 12, 2026.

Mar 4, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review5 violations

  • Personnel Files

    “Staff files will need the following items: Staff #2 needs annual review of abuse/neglect, orientation, OCCL Health and Safety training, application, job description, references, declaration and drug/alcohol statement, adult abuse registry check, health appraisal with TB test, release of employment, and service letters. Staff #4 needs references and attempts at service letters, and a health appraisal. Staff #5 needs orientation, OCCL Health and Safety training, application, references, declaration and drug/alcohol statement, health appraisal, release of employment, and service letter attempts.”

    Rule 30T. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: May 27, 2025.

  • Child Files

    “Please ensure child chiles are complete. Blood lead test results needed for: Child #6, #8, #9, #10, #11. Health Appraisal and immunizations needed for: Child #11.”

    Rule 40T. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Apr 2, 2025.

  • Hazardous Materials

    “Radon testing needs to be completed every 5 years- expired on 2/13/25. Test each room and send results.”

    Rule 45T. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Apr 30, 2025.

  • Indoor Space

    “Please ensure indoor spaces are clean. Trash cans in all spaces need to be cleaned/wiped down. Rug in B110 needs to be cleaned or replaced. Baseboards in B110 need to be cleaned. Send pictures of corrections to OCCL.”

    Rule 49T. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Apr 2, 2025.

  • Sanitation

    “Ensure soap and water is available in all classrooms- missing from computer room. The soap and water needs to be labeled in all rooms. Send pictures to OCCL.”

    Rule 58T. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Apr 2, 2025.

All 2 visits on record
Visits on record
DateVisitWhat the record says
Mar 13, 2026Unannounced Full Compliance Review3 violations cited
Mar 4, 2025Unannounced Full Compliance Review5 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).
  • Delaware lists it as: Nonprofit.
  • Licence number 109237.
  • Capacity: 91 children.
Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Delaware acted against it?

  • 1 complaint investigation in the last three years. Results, in Delaware’s words: Substantiated (1).
Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Complaint Reviews and Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.

On record, newest first
DateWhatDetail
Jul 30, 2024OCCL Standards Complaint: SubstantiatedThe Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint on June 21, 2024, regarding not meeting meal pattern requirements, not having a posted menu, and not serving food at an appropriate temperature. An investigation was conducted on July 1, 2024. This complaint is substantiated for not meeting meal pattern requirements due to the center being unable to serve sandwiches to children for lunch on some days in June 2024 because they are delivered frozen. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for not having a posted menu or not storing food at an appropriate temperature because the center menu was posted on-site, and the refrigerators were at an appropriate temperature.

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?

  • 2022: 2 facility injuries. No facility deaths reported.
Source:

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.
Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.

12 compared
PlaceViolations cited in the last three years
Rebekah MercerNot given
Sherell ThomasNot given
Joy HarveyNot given
Boys & Girls Club @ New Castle This child care providerNot given
YMCA of Delaware/New CastleNot given
Latoya JacksonNot given
Brickhouse Care Academy CorporationNot given
Sara HaytonNot given
Comforts of Home Preschool LLCNot given
Teachable MomentsNot given
Seeds of Greatness Early Learning CenterNot given
Lorraine CaliNot 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

If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing. Delaware’s own record is on data.delaware.gov. 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 Oct 24, 2026.

From the provider

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Replies

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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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