Children & Families First Head Start Dunbar
A licensed child care center in Laurel, Delaware 19956
1110 W 6th St, Laurel, Delaware 19956. (302) 715-0144.
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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?
2 visits with violations in the last three years, the latest on Jan 15, 2025; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.
7 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
7 violations in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2025. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.
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| 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.
Jan 15, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review5 violations
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Personnel Files
“Ensure staff files are complete Staff #1 needs OCCL 7 hour health and safety training and a service letter Staff #2 needs CPR and medication training”
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Staff Attendance
“Ensure staff sign in/out of their classroom with exact hours. Provide OCCL w/one weeks attendance for Preschool #1”
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Child Files
“Ensure child files are complete Child #1 needs blood lead test results Child #3 needs immunizations and blood lead test results Child # 6,7,8,9 and 15 needs documentation of developmental plans”
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Kitchen and Food Preparation
“Ensure to place a thermometer in the EHS refrigerator. This was corrected at the visit.”
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Administration of Medication
“Ensure MAR’s are provided for each child receiving medication. Ensure logs are completed. A & D ointment was found and removed from the classroom.”
Dec 6, 2023: unannounced Full Compliance Review2 violations
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Personnel Files
The inspectors’ words, 130 words
“Ensure staff files are complete Staff #1 needs annual safe sleep review Staff #2 needs a complete file Staff #3 needs CPR/FA certification Staff #4 needs CPR/FA certification Staff #5 needs annual safe sleep review Staff #6 needs annual safe sleep review, annual abuse and neglect training Staff #7 needs annual abuse and neglect Staff #8 needs CPR/FS certification, Staff #9 needs CPR/FA certification, annual safe sleep review Staff #10 needs CPR/FA certification, training hours, professional development plan, annual review of safe sleep. and annual abuse and neglect Staff #11 needs annual safe sleep review Staff #12 need OCCL seven hour health and safety training, release of employment and a service letter Staff #13 needs the professional development plan signed Staff #14 need OCCL seven hour health and safety training.”
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Administration of Medication
“Provide an MAR for one child in room #4”
All 2 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 15, 2025 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 5 violations cited |
| Dec 6, 2023 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 2 violations cited |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Child Care Center.
- Ages served, in Delaware’s words: 6 weeks through 5 years.
- Licence number 1473908.
- Capacity: 140 children.
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
Has Delaware acted against it?
- 2 complaint investigations in the last three years. Results, in Delaware’s words: No Evidence to Substantiate (1), Substantiated (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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| May 12, 2025 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | On April 11, 2025, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding transportation; specifically, the presence of mold and breaking down of the buses. An investigation began on April 16, 2025, and concluded on May 8, 2025. The center was made aware of the allegations prior to OCCL receiving the complaint. The center did their due diligence and had the buses cleaned and inspected. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint because visible mold was not found on the buses and evidence shows bus #87 broke down due to a staff member s error. |
| Apr 12, 2024 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | On March 4, 2024, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding mold in the facility. The investigation began on March 7, 2024, and ended on March 20, 2024. This complaint is substantiated because mold was found in the building and in licensed child care space. |
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: 1 facility injury. 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 |
|---|---|
| Discovery Cove Learning Center | Not given |
| Children & Families First Head Start Dunbar This child care provider | Not given |
| Children & Families First Head Start Laurel | Not given |
| Erika Davis | Not given |
| Sussex Preschools-Laurel School Age Site | Not given |
| Acelero Learning Dunbar Center | Not given |
| Acelero Learning Laurel Center | Not given |
| Tywanda Sullivan | Not given |
| Teresa Ann Neal | Not given |
| Tina Brownlow | Not given |
| Sandra Welk | Not given |
| Vera E Matthews | 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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