Shell’s Early Learning Milton Center
A licensed child care center in Milton, Delaware 19968
225 Milton Ellendale Highway, Milton, Delaware 19968. (302) 684-3201.
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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?
1 visit with violations in the last three years, the latest on Oct 19, 2026; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.
6 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
6 violations in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2026. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 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 Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
Oct 19, 2026: unannounced Full Compliance Review6 violations
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Personnel Files
“Ensure staff files are complete.”
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Child Files
“Ensure child files are complete.”
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Outdoor Area
“Ensure the gates on the playground are self closing and self latching. Remove the dead branch on the play structure.”
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Hand Washing
“Ensure the teacher in the two year old classroom follows handwashing requirements after diaper changing.”
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Administration of Medication
“Remove topicals from the center if children are no longer attend. A MAR is needed for one child.”
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Lesson Plans
“Ensure lesson plans include weekly activity for cooking, food exploration, or healthy habit.”
The one visit on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 2026 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 6 violations cited |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Child Care Center.
- Ages served, in Delaware’s words: 8 weeks through 12 years.
- Takes part in: Purchase of Care (state-subsidized child care).
- Licence number 1700701.
- Capacity: 94 children.
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: 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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| Aug 12, 2026 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | On July 21, 2026, the Office of Child Care Licensing received a complaint regarding meals and snacks, sanitation, keeping the center clean, hazard-free, and in safe condition, not having enough materials, accident and injury reporting procedures, and failure to keep routine cleaning products out of the reach of children and used in a safe manner. This complaint is substantiated for failure to keep routine cleaning products out of the reach of children and used in a safe manner. A child climbed onto a chair, retrieved a disinfectant bottle, and sprayed another child s forehead. There is no evidence to substantiate an allegation regarding meals and snacks. According to Staff #1, the center maintains sufficient food supplies and submitted a menu confirming the vegetable component was met daily. There is no evidence to substantiate inadequate sanitation. Interviewed staff stated that daily cleaning includes soap and water, disinfectants, sanitizing toys at the end of the day with deep cleaning on Fridays. Additionally, Owner #1 is temporarily washing items off site until the center s washing machine is repaired. There was an outbreak of hand foot and mouth disease at the center. According to Staff #2, parents were notified via the Bright Wheel app, and documentation was posted on the front doors. There is no evidence to substantiate regarding not keeping the center clean, hazard-free, and in safe condition and not having enough materials in the classroom. LS #1 conducted a walkthrough of the classroom, observing no safety hazards and confirming that sufficient materials were present. There is no evidence to substantiate not following accident and injury procedures. Owner #1 stated incidents are documented, parents are notified immediately depending on the severity of the incident, and documentation is provided at the end of the day. Owner #1 denied that a child was bitten at the center and the parent was not provided with an incident report. |
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 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 |
|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Club @ H.o. Brittingham | Not given |
| Children & Families First Head Start Cool Spring | Not given |
| Peaceful Child LLC | Not given |
| Children’s Beach House, Inc. @ Hob | Not given |
| Children’s Beach House, Inc. (At Milton Elementary School) | Not given |
| Shell’s Early Learning Milton Center This child care provider | Not given |
| Gail Brown | Not given |
| Maxcine Williams | Not given |
| Christa Edwards | Not given |
| Shell’s Early Learning Center - Milton, Inc. | Not given |
| Doris Hagans | Not given |
| Kristin’s Care, Inc. | 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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