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Charlotte Goode

A licensed family child care in Middletown, Delaware 19709

246 Wilgus Court, Middletown, Delaware 19709. (302) 601-3629.

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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 27 violations in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 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?

5 visits with violations in the last three years, the latest on Feb 1, 2026; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.

27 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

27 violations in 5 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 2026. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

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

Hover or focus a month to read it.

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.

Feb 1, 2026: unannounced Full Compliance Review1 violation
  • Training

    “Ensure training hours are complete. Updated CPR/FA completed.”

    Rule 56P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Apr 27, 2026.

Jan 16, 2026: unannounced Full Compliance Review9 violations
  • Children’s Files

    “Ensure children’s files are complete. Child #1 needs health appraisal, immunizations, blood lead screening. Child #3 needs PRTK, screen time, and permission to sleep in another area. Child #5 needs blood lead screening.”

    Rule 22P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: May 11, 2026.

  • Hazardous Materials

    “Ensure hazardous materials are locked and out of reach of children. The bathroom cabinet needs lock.”

    Rule 27P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Feb 17, 2026.

  • Indoor Space

    “Ensure indoor space is clean and hazard-free. Walls in main child care area need cleaned and free of peeling paint. -Door frame inside kitchen has nails/staples sticking out-need repaired. -Couch in child care room is torn/ripped-needs to be removed/covered. -Gate needs to be replaced at bottom of stairs.”

    Rule 29P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Feb 17, 2026.

  • Fire Safety

    “Ensure fire extinguisher is inspected annually. Ex. 1/2026”

    Rule 30P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Feb 17, 2026.

  • Kitchen and Food Preparation

    “Ensure kitchen area is clean and sanitary. Food prep area needs to be cleaned, outside of the refrigerator needs cleaned (food particles). Food needs to be removed from floor under the prep area.”

    Rule 31P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Feb 17, 2026.

  • Equipment

    “Ensure styrofoam is not used for feeding infants/toddlers.”

    Rule 36P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Feb 17, 2026.

  • Diapering and Soiled Clothing

    “Ensure a non-porous surface is provided for diaper changing.”

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

  • Administration of Medication

    “Ensure medication logs are completed for diaper cream. Ensure the provider has updated medication certification.”

    Rule 42P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: May 11, 2026.

  • First Aid Kit

    “Ensure the first aid kit is complete. Needs eye patch, splints, first aid guide.”

    Rule 44P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: May 11, 2026.

Feb 1, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review1 violation
  • Training

    “Ensure 12 annual training hours are completed 30 days prior to license expiration.”

    Rule 56P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Mar 18, 2025.

Jan 16, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review7 violations
  • Children’s Files

    “Ensure children’s files are complete: Submit health appraisals & blood lead screening results for Child #1 & #3, immunization records for Child #5 & #6.”

    Rule 22P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Mar 19, 2025.

  • Daily Attendance of Children

    “Ensure children’s attendance is accurate.”

    Rule 24P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Feb 20, 2025.

  • Heating and Cooling

    “Ensure heating and cooling equipment is shielded and inaccessible to children. Add a door or secured gate to the nap room.”

    Rule 28P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Feb 20, 2025.

  • Kitchen and Food Preparation

    “Ensure kitchen area is clean and sanitary. clean the high chair and pad.”

    Rule 31P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Feb 21, 2025.

  • Sleeping Accommodations and Safe Sleep Environments

    “Ensure all rest equipment is labeled.”

    Rule 35P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Mar 19, 2025.

  • Child Health Exclusions

    “Ensure MAR forms are completed for all over-the-counter medications for all children.”

    Rule 41P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Apr 3, 2025.

  • First Aid Kit

    “Ensure the first aid kit is complete. Add the following items: an eye patch, pen/paper, plastic bag, roll gauze, splint.”

    Rule 44P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Feb 20, 2025.

Jan 5, 2024: unannounced Full Compliance Review9 violations
  • General Requirements

    “Submit fingerprinting receipt for the new HHM.”

    Rule 13P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Feb 16, 2024.

  • General Capacity

    “Submit copies of correspondence of disenrollment of one preschool age child to comply with the maximum of 5 PS age children.”

    Rule 14P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Feb 16, 2024.

  • Children’s Files

    “Submit the following to complete the children’s files: dates of enrollment for ch. #8, 4; days / hours of attendance for #4; emergency card information for #3, 4; health appraisals w/immunizations for #2, 8; blood lead test results for #3, 5, 6, 7; parents right to know and screen time permission for #3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; transportation permission for #3, 4; mat permission for #3, 4.”

    Rule 22P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Feb 23, 2024.

  • Outdoor Area

    “Provide documentation of covering the corners of the AC unit outside to eliminate the hazard to anyone walking on the entry stones to the FCCH.”

    Rule 32P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Feb 16, 2024.

  • Diapering and Soiled Clothing

    “Ensure the diaper trash can is within arm’s reach of the changing table.”

    Rule 40P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 5, 2024.

  • Emergency Planning

    “Provide documentation of a posted evacuation route.”

    Rule 45P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Feb 16, 2024.

  • Pets

    “Provide documentation of vaccinations for the dog.”

    Rule 48P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Feb 19, 2024.

  • Activities and Interactions

    “Provide documentation of a posted daily schedule.”

    Rule 52P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Feb 16, 2024.

  • Training

    “Submit documentation of 12 hours of annual training 30 prior to license expiration.”

    Rule 56P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Feb 23, 2024.

All 5 visits on record
Visits on record
DateVisitWhat the record says
Feb 1, 2026Unannounced Full Compliance Review1 violation cited
Jan 16, 2026Unannounced Full Compliance Review9 violations cited
Feb 1, 2025Unannounced Full Compliance Review1 violation cited
Jan 16, 2025Unannounced Full Compliance Review7 violations cited
Jan 5, 2024Unannounced Full Compliance Review9 violations cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Family Child Care.
  • Ages served, in Delaware’s words: 6 weeks through 12 years.
  • Takes part in: Child Care Food Program (meals reimbursed), Purchase of Care (state-subsidized child care).
  • Licence number 1267215.
Source:

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.
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.

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.
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
Katherine ManningNot given
Barbara NeedlesNot given
Shaun Mullan-Wright DBA Sunshine Children’s HouseNot given
Happy Place Child Care of MiddletownNot given
Jeffrey WhitingNot given
Susan ThompsonNot given
Peace Arousa Augusta OsayanmwenNot given
Mercy Land AcademyNot given
Brilliant Little Minds @apcNot given
Grow & Learn Childcare CenterNot given
Charlotte Goode This child care providerNot given
Celebree School of MiddletownNot 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.

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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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