Greater Dover Boys and Girls Club
A licensed child care center in Dover, Delaware 19904
1683 New Burton Rd, Dover, Delaware 19904. (302) 678-5182.
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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 May 6, 2026; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.
21 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
21 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited May 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.
May 6, 2026: unannounced Full Compliance Review9 violations
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Personnel Files
The inspectors’ words, 117 words
“Ensure staff files are complete. One staff needs a health appraisal. One staff needs CPR/FA certification and two reference letters. One staff needs a health appraisal with TB. One staff needs OCCL’s Health and Safety Training and two additional references. One staff needs OCCL’s Health and Safety Training. One staff needs Orientation, two references, and a health appraisal with TB. One staff needs a health appraisal with TB. One staff needs a DEEDS qualification and two additional reference letters. One staff needs CPR/FA certification and two additional reference letters. One staff needs an additional reference letter and a health appraisal. One staff needs a health appraisal with TB. One staff needs a signed release of employment history.”
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Staff Attendance
“Ensure staff document the exact arrival and departure in the classroom. One staff person wrote a future time of departure on attendance. Retrain staff on appropriate attendance.”
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Child Files
“Ensure child files are complete. Nine children need updated health appraisals with immunizations. One child needs immunizations.”
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Indoor Space
“Ensure staff do not use air fresheners or diffusers in the classrooms. A scented diffuser was on in the three and four year old classroom. This was corrected at the visit when it was addressed with the staff person who unplugged it and agreed to remove it from the classroom.”
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Outdoor Area
“Ensure fall zone requirements are met in the outdoor play area. Replenish rubber mulch to six inches in both playgrounds. Ensure exit gates are self-closing and self-latching. Repair gates in both playgrounds, as discussed.”
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Sanitation
“Ensure each classroom is equipped with a labeled soap/water bottle for cleaning. Most classrooms did not have a soap/water bottle available. Add bottles.”
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Administration of Medication
“Ensure Medication Administration Records (MAR) are completed for sunscreen, including the specific name of the medication. Ensure each child has their own bottle and it is labeled with their name. Complete new MAR’s, as needed.”
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First Aid Kits
“Ensure off-site first aid kit used in the vans contain soap and water. Add these items to each van.”
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Lesson Plans
“Ensure lesson plans in the preschool classrooms contain a weekly activity in a food/healthy habit topic. Add this to the existing lesson plans.”
May 21, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review6 violations
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General Qualifications
“Ensure staff have a comprehensive background check and receive an eligibility determination prior to working with children. According to the Administrator for the preschool classrooms, a new staff person has been in the classroom without a letter of eligibility. Submit letter of eligibility.”
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Personnel Files
The inspectors’ words, 213 words
“Ensure staff files are complete. One staff person needs a release of employment history. One staff person needs one additional reference letter and an adult health appraisal with TB screening. One staff person needs to complete OCCL’s Health and Safety Training for Child Care Professionals and an adult health appraisal. One staff person needs two documented attempts to obtain service letters and two additional references if no service letters are returned. One staff person needs a professional development plan. One staff person needs annual review of child abuse and neglect, employee declaration, drug and alcohol statement, release of employment history and two documented attempts to obtain service letters. One staff person needs to complete OCCL’s Health and Safety Training for Child Care Professionals, employee declaration, a second attempt to obtain service letters and one additional reference if a service letter is not received. One staff person needs an adult health appraisal. One staff person needs to complete OCCL’s Health and Safety Training for Child Care Professionals, a letter of eligibility, two documented attempts to obtain service letters, and two additional references if no service letters are returned. One staff person needs two additional references. One staff person needs the employee declaration. One staff person needs the employee declaration and release of employment history.”
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Child Files
“Ensure child files are complete. Two children need a development plan. One child needs emergency transportation permission.”
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Indoor Space
“Ensure children have individual storage space labeled with their name. Label baskets and cubbies.”
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Outdoor Area
“Ensure gates in the fence in the outdoor playground are self-closing and self-lathing. Repair gates.”
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First Aid Kits
“Ensure the traveling first aid kit has all required items. One van needs an ice pack and first aid guide. One van needs a first aid guide and triangular bandage. This was corrected at the visit when the items were added.”
May 6, 2024: unannounced Full Compliance Review6 violations
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Staff Attendance
“Ensure staff sign in and out of the classroom. The Pre-K staff member was not signed into the classroom. The SA staff was not signed out of the classroom.”
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Hazardous Materials
“Ensure chemicals are not accessible to children and spray bottles with cleaners are labeled and available. LS observed closets not locked and chemical accessible in two classrooms. No classrooms had disinfectant labeled or vialabe in the classroom.”
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Indoor Space
“Ensure walls and doors are clean and in good repair. All classrooms need walls repaired and painted. All classrooms need the doors and frames for the bathrooms painted. Ensure floors are cleaned. Classroom 138 the tape on the floor needs to be removed and the residue cleaned off the floor. Tables in a classroom need to be scrapped to remove tape residue. Two classrooms need personal space for individual belongings labeled. Ensure outlets with power strips have covers two classrooms need outlet covers.”
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Outdoor Area
“Ensure debris is removed from the outdoor play area, gates are self-closing self-latching, fall zones are replenished, and broken or unrepairable equipment is repaired or removed.”
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Sleeping Accommodations and Safe Sleep Environments
“Ensure the rest/nap equipment is labeled.”
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First Aid Kits
“Ensure the first aid kit roll gauze and triangle bandage is replenished.”
All 3 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
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| May 6, 2026 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 9 violations cited |
| May 21, 2025 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 6 violations cited |
| May 6, 2024 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 6 violations cited |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Child Care Center.
- Ages served, in Delaware’s words: 3 years 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 1212039.
- Capacity: 289 children.
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
Has Delaware acted against it?
- 5 complaint investigations in the last three years. Results, in Delaware’s words: Substantiated (3), No Evidence to Substantiate (1), Unsubstantiated with Concern (1).
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Complaint Reviews and Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
| Date | What | Detail |
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| Aug 19, 2026 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | On August 7, 2026, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding lack of supervision. An investigation was conducted on August 12, 2026. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint because all staff interviewed stated they were watching the children but did not see any inappropriate touching occur. |
| Aug 12, 2026 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | On June 1, 2026, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a self-report regarding Staff #1 aggressively handling Child #1. Administrator #1 stated Staff #1 was immediately placed on administrative leave and later terminated from employment. On June 8, 2026, OCCL received a complaint regarding a lack of positive behavior supports related to Staff #1 and Child #1. An investigation began on June 1, 2026, and concluded on July 23, 2026. This complaint is substantiated because the details of the center s self-report and the Reporter s allegations allege the same incident, which is Staff #1 inappropriately and aggressively handling Child #1. |
| Jul 23, 2026 | IA Investigation: Unsubstantiated with Concern | Delaware gives no summary. |
| Mar 3, 2026 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | OCCL s investigation of regulatory non-compliance began after clearance from other agencies was received. On February 5, 2026, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding positive behavior supports. An investigation was conducted on February 18, 2026. This complaint is substantiated because according to several child statements, Staff #1 was play fighting with them, using a broom and reflective warning triangle, causing injury. Center administration terminated Staff #1 s employment prior to this investigation. Additionally, accident/injury reports reviewed did not have parent/guardian signature. |
| Jun 11, 2025 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | On May 8, 2025, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding accident/injury procedures. An investigation was conducted on May 21, 2025. This complaint is substantiated because according to staff interviewed, the parent/guardian of Child #1 was contacted around 12:00 pm to notify them of the injury which occurred at 10:20 am, however any injury to the face or head requires immediate notification to the parent/guardian. The accident/injury report given to LS #1 showed the parent/guardian signed the report on May 7, 2025, the same day as the injury. |
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?
- 2026: 4 facility injuries. No facility deaths reported.
- 2024: 1 facility injury. No facility deaths reported.
- 2023: 2 facility injuries. No facility deaths reported.
- 2022: 2 facility injuries. No facility deaths reported.
- 2021: 2 facility injuries. 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 |
|---|---|
| Miracles of Life Child Care | Not given |
| Dover’s Childrens Village Too | Not given |
| Greater Dover Boys and Girls Club This child care provider | Not given |
| Mattie Rena Duffie | Not given |
| Lakeisheia Booker | Not given |
| Tyra Ceo | Not given |
| De Colores Home Learning Center | Not given |
| Tilithia Allen | Not given |
| Janet M. Denton | Not given |
| Rivers of Learning Academy, LLC | Not given |
| Little Kid’s Swagg Learning Center, LLC Too | Not given |
| Sunshine Home Childcare, LLC | 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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