Gathering Lambs

Personnel Files

“Ensure staff files are complete. Two staff need a professional development plan. Two staff need CPR/FA and annual review of child abuse and neglect. One staff needs CPR/FA, OCCL’s Health and Safety Training, application, resume, or personal data sheet, pending out-of-state check, adult abuse registry check, and two service letter attempts. One staff needs OCCL’s Health and Safety Training, job description, references, employee declaration, drug/alcohol statement, adult abuse registry check, adult health appraisal with TB screening, and Release of Employment History.”

Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Sep 28, 2026.

Parents Right to Know

“Ensure Parents’ Right to Know Log is reviewed with and signed by each newly enrolled family since last year’s OCCL visit and with anyone touring the center. Obtain signatures.”

Rule 38U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Aug 28, 2026.

Child Files

“Ensure child files are complete. One child needs a blood lead level test result. One child needs an updated health appraisal and immunizations. Two children need an updated health appraisal and blood lead level test result. Two children need an updated health appraisal, immunizations, and blood lead level test result. One child needs updated immunizations. Two children need development plans.”

Rule 40U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Sep 25, 2026.

Kitchen and Food Preparation

“Ensure refrigerators maintain a temperature of 41 degrees F or below. Adjust refrigerator temperature in the two-year-old classroom.”

Rule 50U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Aug 28, 2026.

Outdoor Area

“Ensure fall zone requirements are met in the outdoor play area. Replenish mulch to nine inches.”

Rule 53U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Aug 28, 2026.

Sleeping Accommodations and Safe Sleep Environments

“Ensure nap mats are non-absorbent. Replace ripped mats in the one-year-old classroom.”

Rule 56U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Aug 28, 2026.

Diapering and Soiled Clothing

“Ensure diaper changing surface is non-porous, free from rips and tears. Replace ripped pads in the one-year-old classroom and bathroom.”

Rule 61U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Aug 28, 2026.

Emergency Planning

“Ensure fire prevention checklist and fire drills are conducted monthly. Complete one for August and post in visible location.”

Rule 66U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Aug 6, 2026.

Activity Areas

“Ensure art materials are available in classrooms for ages two and older. Add accessible materials to the two-year-old classroom and large room.”

Rule 75U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Aug 6, 2026.

Ratios, Group Size, and Supervision

Rule 27U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 24, 2025.

Staff Attendance

“Ensure staff document the exact arrival and departure in each classroom or area. According to attendance records submitted, on 9/5/2025, a staff person did not sign out. Submit attendance records for 10/6/2025 - 10/10/2025.”

Rule 36U.

Ratios, Group Size, and Supervision

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

General Qualifications

“Ensure staff members are truthful when providing information to OCCL. According to the Administrator, the multi-purpose room was only used for special occasions and not every day. According to attendance records submitted to OCCL and reviewed, preschool children were combined in the multi-purpose room 15 days, spending the majority of hours in that room. Discontinue use of the multi-purpose room as a classroom or add the five required activity areas and received approval from OCCL to use it.”

Rule 28U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Sep 30, 2025.

Staff Attendance

“Ensure the time of arrival and departure of each staff person in the classroom is documented. According to attendance records submitted to OCCL and reviewed, there were 10 times staff did not sign in/out of classrooms. Submit attendance records for 8/25/2025 - 9/5/2025.”

Rule 36U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Sep 30, 2025.

Staffing

“Ensure Administrator is functioning in that role at least 50% of the time. According to the Administrator, she is in the classrooms daily as the primary teacher. Create schedule to ensure 50% of the time, the Administrator is functioning as the Administrator.”

Rule 26U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Sep 30, 2025.

Personnel Files

“Ensure staff files are complete. Five staff need a professional development plan. One staff needs an orientation, application/resume, references, employee declaration/drug and alcohol statement, adult abuse registry check, health appraisal with TB screening, and two documented attempts to obtain service letters. Three staff need annual training hours.”

Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 14, 2025.

Parents Right to Know

“Ensure Parent’s Right to Know log is reviewed with and signed by each newly enrolled family and any family touring the center. Obtain signatures.”

Rule 38U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Sep 30, 2025.

Child Files

“Ensure child files are complete. One child needs a blood lead level test result. Four children need an updated health appraisal and immunizations. Two children need an updated health appraisal, immunizations, and blood lead level test results.”

Rule 40U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 14, 2025.

Indoor Space

“Ensure walls are in good repair. Repair baseboard under heater in Room #1.”

Rule 49U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Sep 29, 2025.

Kitchen and Food Preparation

“Ensure thermometers are in each refrigerator and freezer. Add a thermometer to the freezer in Room #1. Ensure refrigerator temperature does not exceed 41 degrees. The refrigerator in Room #1 was a temperature of 44 degrees. Adjust temperature.”

Rule 50U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Sep 29, 2025.

Outdoor Area

“Ensure gate in the playground self-closes and self-latches. Repair smaller gate. Ensure fall zone requirements are met. Replenish mulch to nine inches.”

Rule 53U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Sep 29, 2025.

Activity Areas

“Ensure classrooms for ages two years and older include the five required areas. Add construction blocks to Room #2 and accessible art materials to Room #4. This was corrected at the visit when the materials were added. Discontinue use of the Multi-purpose/gym room as a classroom or add the five required activities and receive approval to use by OCCL.”

Rule 75U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Sep 30, 2025.

Ratios, Group Size, and Supervision

“During nap times, when children one year and older are sleeping, the maximum group size may not be exceeded. The Supervisor and Ls observed 25 children ages three to school-age napping in the multipurpose room, exceeding the maximum group size of 20 for three-year-olds.”

Rule 27U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Aug 15, 2024.

First Aid and CPR Training

“A center serving school-age children shall ensure an administrator has successfully completed 15 hours of approved school-age training.”

Rule 35U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Sep 20, 2024.

Governing Body

“Have an organized system of business management and have sufficient staff, space, and equipment to fulfill, at a minimum, administrative, clerical, direct child care, and supervisory functions. LS observed there is not enough staff for child care duties.”

Rule 15U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Sep 30, 2024.

Ratios, Group Size, and Supervision

Rule 27U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Aug 19, 2024.

Personnel Files

“Ensure staff files are complete. Two staff need complete files. Five staff need professional development plans. , nine staff need an annual review of abuse and neglect. Three staff need CPR and First Aid training. One staff needs Administration of Medication Certification.”

Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 11, 2024.

Staff Attendance

“The exact hours worked in each classroom or area should be documented at the time of the staff member’s arrival and departure. The administrator did not sign in the recreation area, and when she left the child care area with LSs, she did not sign out or back on from the child care area.”

Rule 36U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Aug 19, 2024.

Child Files

“Ensure child files are complete. Ten children need updated health appraisals. Ten children need updated immunization records. Four children need blood lead screening results.”

Rule 40U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 11, 2024.

Hazardous Materials

“Ensure soap and water bottles are labeled and available in all classrooms and bathrooms.”

Rule 45U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Sep 13, 2024.

Indoor Space

“Ensure outlets are connected in the recreation room. The two garbage cans in the recreation area need lids. Classroom one needs the air freshener removed. During the visit, the children were in the recreation area, which is not set up with activity areas with required materials. During the three-hour visit, the children sat at tables, singing and table toys until lunch and nap time. The recreation room is not in the capacity of the license and can not be used as a classroom.”

Rule 49U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Aug 30, 2024.

Kitchen and Food Preparation

“Ensure the refrigerators and freezers all have thermometers that read 40 degrees Fahrenheit for the refrigerator ad and zero degrees Fahrenheit for the freezers in classroom three. Classroom three has cups with milk in the m not labeled milk or dated and a bowl of food with a paper towel on it not labeled or properly stored.”

Rule 50U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Sep 13, 2024.

Outdoor Area

“Ensure the protective surface of the outdoor play area beneath and in the fall zones of slides and swings. Replenish the mulch under the and at the bottom of the swings and slides.”

Rule 53U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Aug 30, 2024.

Equipment

Rule 57U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 11, 2024.

Administration of Medication

“Written permission from the child’s parent or guardian is required for each medication to be administered. One Child’s medication administration record(MAR) is not completed. One child did not have a MAR for Aquaphor. Staff is using the diaper creams and is not administration of medication certified.”

Rule 63U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Sep 13, 2024.

Activity Schedule

“Ensure children are in the classrooms designated for their activity schedule. During the visit, the children were in the recreation room until nap time.”

Rule 76U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Aug 14, 2024.