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Little Smiles Daycare LLC

A licensed large family child care in Seaford, Delaware 19973

215 High St, Seaford, Delaware 19973. (302) 682-7441.

Delaware’s own record, on data.delaware.gov

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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 7 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jul 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?

3 visits with violations in the last three years, the latest on Jul 2, 2026; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.

7 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

7 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jul 2026. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

7 violations by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
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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.

Jul 2, 2026: unannounced Full Compliance Review2 violations

  • Children’s Files

    “Ensure child files are complete. Three children need blood lead screening results. Three children need update immunizations. Two children need updated health appraisals. One child needs parental permissions page complete.”

    Rule 22Q. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Aug 12, 2026.

  • Personnel Files

    “Ensure staff files are complete. One staff needs reference letters and health appraisal with TB.”

    Rule 69Q. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jul 8, 2026.

Jul 7, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review3 violations

  • Children’s Files

    “Ensure child files are complete. Four children need blood lead screening results.”

    Rule 22Q. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jul 16, 2025.

  • Infants’ Records

    “Ensure daily logs are completed daily for infants.”

    Rule 25Q. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jul 21, 2025.

  • Personnel Files

    “Ensure staff files are complete. One staff needs four reference letters, release of employment, health appraisal with TB results, and signed orientation.”

    Rule 69Q. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jul 16, 2025.

Jul 25, 2024: unannounced Full Compliance Review2 violations

  • Children’s Files

    “Ensure child files are complete. Six children need updated health appraisals. Two children need updated immunizations. Three children need blood lead screening results.”

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

  • Training

    “Ensure staff has 15 hours of annual training. Staff #2 needs administration of medication certificate. Staff #3 needs annual training and administration of certification.”

    Rule 70Q. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Aug 23, 2024.

All 3 visits on record
Visits on record
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jul 2, 2026Unannounced Full Compliance Review2 violations cited
Jul 7, 2025Unannounced Full Compliance Review3 violations cited
Jul 25, 2024Unannounced Full Compliance Review2 violations cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Large Family Child Care.
  • Ages served, in Delaware’s words: 3 months through 10 years.
  • Takes part in: Purchase of Care (state-subsidized child care).
  • Licence number 1507993.
  • Capacity: 12 children.
Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Delaware acted against it?

  • 1 complaint investigation in the last three years. Results, in Delaware’s words: No Evidence to Substantiate with Concern (1).
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.

On record, newest first
DateWhatDetail
Nov 16, 2023OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate with ConcernThe Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint on October 30, 2023, regarding inappropriate sleeping equipment, taking part in activities that distract from providing care, and staffing. An investigation was conducted on November 7, 2023. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint because staff denied the allegations, children were resting on proper napping equipment at the time of the unannounced visit, staff were present and focused on the care of the children, and attendance records show the same three approved staff were present each day. Additional concerns noted according to attendance records were, on October 30, 2023, 13 children were present from 10:00 am until 3:02 pm, and on November 1, 2023, Staff #1 was alone with seven children for approximately 25 minutes in the morning before another staff arrived.

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.

13 compared
PlaceViolations cited in the last three years
Little Smiles Daycare LLC This child care providerNot given
Sade LankfordNot given
Little Sprouts Learning AcademyNot given
Lil Kritters Child CareNot given
Little Miracles PreschoolNot given
Cozmic Kidz Learning Center LLCNot given
Lindsey SmithNot given
Charlene WildongerNot given
God’s Little Blessings Child CareNot given
Valerie HorseyNot given
Laura Messick DBA the Learning Tree, LLCNot given
Precious Memories Childcare and PreschoolNot given
Children & Families First Head Start SeafordNot 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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Replies

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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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