Innovative Kids Early Learning Academy
A licensed child care center in Bear, Delaware 19701
614 Pulaski Highway, Bear, Delaware 19701. (302) 317-3455.
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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?
4 visits with violations in the last three years, the latest on Aug 21, 2026; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.
28 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
28 violations in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.
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| 2024 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 2025 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 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.
Aug 21, 2026: announced3 violations
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Positive Behavior Management
“Staff should use appropriate behavior supports. A staff member was seen striking a child. The staff member was terminated from employment on 8/19/26..”
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Staffing
“Staff members providing care for children may not participate in personal activities. A staff member was observed on cell phone. The staff member was terminated from employment on 8/19/26.”
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Ratios, Group Size, and Supervision
“Ensure supervision and observation of children are provided at all times. Staff member was reported leaving the classroom. Staff member was terminated from employment on 8/19/26.”
May 6, 2026: unannounced Full Compliance Review12 violations
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General Qualifications
“Ensure staff are determined eligible before employment. Staff #2 needs eligibility before returning.”
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Personnel Files
“Ensure staff files are complete. Staff #1, #7 need updated CPR/FA. Staff #1 needs 2 references, a health appraisal &TB. Staff #3, #5 need safe sleep & abuse signed, orientation, OCCL 7-hour training, job description, references, declaration, drug alcohol signed, release of employment, service letters. Staff #4 needs OCCL 7-hour training, 2 references. Staff #5 needs adult abuse check, health appraisla & TB.”
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Child Files
“Ensure child files are complete. Child #3, #12, #16, #17 need blood lead screening. Child #14 needs an immunization record.”
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Documenting Children’s Progress
“Ensure developmental plans are completed for infant/toddler children.”
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Hazardous Materials
“Ensure hazards are locked up. Infant B needs a lock on the cabinet.”
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Indoor Space
“Ensure indoor space is in good repair. Preschool A ceiling tiles have signs of leak spots. Hole in the wall in 2’s room - behind the closet.”
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Sleeping Accommodations and Safe Sleep Environments
“Ensure sleeping accomodations are met. Children need top & bottom covers for over 1-year. Swaddle permission for child in Infant B.”
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Equipment
“Ensure equipment requirements are met. Toddler A needs language/literacy. 2’s need dramatic play, language/literacy and blocks. Preschool B needs dramatic play and language/literacy.”
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Diapering and Soiled Clothing
“Ensure non-porus surface is provided for diaper changing. Infant B mat is ripped.; not cleanable.”
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Administration of Medication
“Ensure medication administration records are updated, and medications are not expired. Child #21 needs to be updated.”
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Feeding of Infants
“Ensure infant feeding schedules are updated monthly. Infant B children need to be updated. Ensure bottles are labeled. Both Infant A and Infant B.”
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Lesson Plans
“Ensure lesson plans are updated. SA needs to be updated monthly.”
Nov 14, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review6 violations
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Personnel Files
“Ensure staff files are complete. Staff #1 needs CPR/FA, health appraisal. Staff #3 health appraisal/TB. Staff #4 CPR/FA, health appraisal/TB. Staff #5 CPR/FA, medication training, health appraisal/TB.”
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Child Files
“Ensure child files are complete. Child #4, #5, #9 need blood lead results.”
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Hazardous Materials
“Ensure cabinets are locked-both toddler classrooms need locks installed on cabinets under sink.”
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Diapering and Soiled Clothing
“Ensure classrooms have foot-activated diaper pails.”
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Emergency Planning
“Ensure monthly evacuation drills are documented. Ensure shelter-in-place supplies are available: water.”
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Lesson Plans
“Ensure lesson plans are posted/available and include weekly special activities-health/food.”
Aug 15, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review7 violations
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General Qualifications
“Ensure staff are fingerprinted before the start of employment. Staff #10 was sent home; not fingerprinted.”
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Personnel Files
The inspectors’ words, 109 words
“Ensure staff files are complete. Staff #1 needs Occl H&S train, app/resume, references, service letters. Staff #2 needs orientation, app/resume, job description, references, declaration, drug and alcohol, adult abuse, release of employment, service letters. Staff #3 needs service letters. Staff #4 needs OCCL H&S, 1 reference and service letters or attempts & 3 references. Staff #5 needs app/resume, job description. Staff #6 needs orientation, service letters. Staff #7 needs orientation, OCCL H&S, job description, declaration. Staff #8 needs orientation, OCCL H&S, job description, references, release of employment, service letters. Staff #9 needs orientation, app/resume, job description, references, service letter. Staff #10 needs PCCL H&S, references, service letters, and eligibility.”
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Staff Attendance
“Ensure staff are signed in/out of all classrooms.”
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Child Files
“Ensure childrens files are complete. Child #1 thru Child #11 needs date of enrollment, hours/days attending.”
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Hazardous Materials
“Ensure hazardous materials are inaccessible to children. Infant rooms’ cabinets need locks or remove bags and creams and place them higher.”
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Kitchen and Food Preparation
“Ensure kitchen freezer temperature reads 0’ or below. Reading 20’. The infant’s room refrigerator needs a thermometer.”
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Sleeping Accommodations and Safe Sleep Environments
“Ensure nap equipment is labeled in all rooms.”
All 4 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
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| Aug 21, 2026 | Announced | 3 violations cited |
| May 6, 2026 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 12 violations cited |
| Nov 14, 2025 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 6 violations cited |
| Aug 15, 2025 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 7 violations cited |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Child Care Center.
- 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 1651134.
- Capacity: 133 children.
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.
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?
- 2026: 2 facility injuries. No facility deaths reported.
- 2025: 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 |
|---|---|
| Innovative Kids Early Learning Academy This child care provider | Not given |
| Germaine Oden | Not given |
| Kidz Ink I | Not given |
| Lil’ Einstein’s Learning Academy | Not given |
| St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church Preschool | Not given |
| Valerie Chinn DBA A Kidz World LLC | Not given |
| Cornerstone Early Education and Youth Center, Inc. | Not given |
| Kidz Ink IV Academy of Early Learning | Not given |
| A. S. Academy of Learning 2 | Not given |
| Ashley Stanford DBA Little Arrows Childcare LLC | Not given |
| Grow N’ Learn | Not given |
| Dianne Peters | Not given |
| Bree Thompson | 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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