Growing Sprouts Early Learning Center LLC.
A licensed child care center in Dover, Delaware 19904
872 Forest Street, Dover, Delaware 19904. (302) 744-8370.
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The short answer
Record last released by Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing on Nov 1, 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 Jul 7, 2026; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.
8 violations cited in the last three years.
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information. Released Nov 1, 2026. Updated daily.
When those violations happened
8 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jul 2026. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 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 Nov 1, 2026. Updated daily.
Jul 7, 2026: unannounced Full Compliance Review5 violations
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General Qualifications
“Ensure staff are fingerprinted every five years. A staff member needs to be fingerprinted for the facility as her fingerprints expired July 6, 2026.”
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Child Files
“Ensure child files are complete. One child needs an immunization record.”
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Indoor Space
The inspectors’ words, 98 words
“Ensure walls are cleanable and in good repair. Repair the hole in the wall near the mirror shelf, the wall at the corner near the bathroom door, and the holes in the wall above the changing table in the toddler classroom. Repair the wall under the window near the nap cots in the three-year-old classroom. Repair the wall under the window near the emergency exit door in the infant classroom. Repair the base of the door frame at the front door. Ensure trash is covered. The trash can located in the preschool classroom bathroom was observed not covered.”
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Outdoor Area
“Ensure gates in the outdoor play area are self-closing and self-latching. The first gate was observed not to self-close every time it was opened. The second gate was observed locked. Ensure gates are not locked during the center s hours of operation. Replenish the fall zone material under all equipment that is designed for the children s feet to leave the ground and swings to ensure there is six inches of rubber mulch.”
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Sleeping Accommodations and Safe Sleep Environments
“Ensure nap equipment is safe and non-absorbent. Replace the several ripped nap mats in the preschool classroom.”
Jul 8, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review2 violations
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Personnel Files
“Ensure staff files are complete. One staff member needs first aid certification. One staff member needs an adult health appraisal and TB results. One staff member needs an adult health appraisal.”
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Emergency Planning
“Purchase additional bottled water for an emergency supply to shelter-in-place for 24 hours.”
Jul 18, 2024: unannounced Full Compliance Review1 violation
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Child Files
“Ensure child files are complete. Child #12 needs up dated health appraisal and immunizations.”
All 3 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
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| Jul 7, 2026 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 5 violations cited |
| Jul 8, 2025 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 2 violations cited |
| Jul 18, 2024 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 1 violation cited |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Child Care Center.
- Ages served, in Delaware’s words: 6 weeks through 5 years.
- Takes part in: Purchase of Care (state-subsidized child care).
- Licence number 1479150.
- Capacity: 58 children.
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Nov 1, 2026. Updated daily.
Has Delaware acted against it?
- 5 complaint investigations in the last three years. Results, in Delaware’s words: No Evidence to Substantiate (5).
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Complaint Reviews and Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Nov 1, 2026. Updated daily.
| Date | What | Detail |
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| May 7, 2026 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | On March 31, 2026, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding accident/injury procedures. An investigation was conducted on April 15, 2026. There is no evidence to substantiate for accident/injury procedures because according to staff, the parent of Child #1 was notified immediately after staff assisted the child, an accident injury report was completed, and the report was signed by Parent #1. Additionally, LS #1 observed a copy of the signed accident/injury report. |
| Jul 30, 2025 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | On July 11, 2025, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding not following child health exclusions, an insect infestation, and infant feeding violation. An investigation was conducted on July 16, 2025. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint because staff denied the allegations and LS #1 did not see any signs of an insect infestation. Additionally, LS #1 observed insect glue traps that were left by Viking Pest Control. |
| Feb 18, 2025 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | On January 24, 2025, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding an allegation of improper discipline. An investigation was conducted on January 28-30, 2025. There is no evidence to substantiate for improper discipline because all staff interviewed denied the allegations and because there is no staff member employed at the center by the specific name provided by the Reporter. |
| Jan 21, 2025 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | On December 19, 2024, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding staff communication, not following the complaint policies in the handbook, and not providing the owner’s contact information. An investigation was conducted on January 9, 2025. There is no evidence to substantiate for staff communication, not following the complaint policies in the handbook, and not providing owner contact information because staff denied the allegations and provided documentation they have responded to Parent #1 s requests and questions. |
| Apr 22, 2024 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | On April 10, 2024, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding improper diapering changing, not using positive behavior supports, not following lesson plans, staff using cell phones, and screen time. An investigation was conducted on April 16, 2024. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint based on interviewed staff. Interviewed staff denied changing children in the classroom. Interviewed staff stated they do not threaten the children and they use redirection strategies. Interviewed staff stated they do not use their cell phones unless they cannot get Bright Wheel to work on the classroom tablets. Interviewed staff stated the children do not get screentime daily and when they do it is for educational purposes or a special event. In addition, staff were observed following the posted lesson plans. |
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.
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Nov 1, 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 Nov 1, 2026. Updated daily.
| Place | Violations cited in the last three years |
|---|---|
| Growing Sprouts Early Learning Center LLC. This child care provider | Not given |
| Miracles of Life Child Care | Not given |
| Dover’s Childrens Village Too | Not given |
| Greater Dover Boys and Girls Club | 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 Nov 1, 2026 and checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily. Public Domain.
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Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information (wb83-pkcv).
Released Nov 1, 2026 and checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily. Public Domain.
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Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Complaint Reviews (pnbd-85r6).
Released Nov 1, 2026 and checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated daily. Public Domain.
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This copy of the record was made on Nov 2, 2026.
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