Delaware Tech Child Development Center Terry Campus
A licensed child care center in Dover, Delaware 19904
100 Campus Drive, Dover, Delaware 19904. (302) 857-1720.
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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?
3 visits with violations in the last three years, the latest on Jun 4, 2026; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.
13 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
13 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Jun 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.
Jun 4, 2026: unannounced Full Compliance Review6 violations
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Personnel Files
“Ensure staff files are complete. Two staff need First Aid. One staff needs a completed PD plan. Two staff need annual review of safe sleep. Two staff need annual review of abuse and neglect. Four staff need adult abuse registry checks. One staff needs release of employment. Two staff need service letters with two documented attempts.”
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Child Files
“Ensure child files are complete. Five children need date of enrollment. Two children need days/hours of attending. Five children need blood lead screening results. One child needs parent permissions. One child need Parents Right to Know signed. Two children need updated infant feeding statements.”
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Indoor Space
“Ensure walls and floors are in good repair. Infant room has exposed screws, holes and peeling paint on the walls. Red room has dirt build-up on the floor and dirt on the wall by the sink. Yellow room has peeling tape on the floor collecting dirt. Ensure air fresheners and plugins are not in use. Infant room and Green room both had air fresheners. Ensure measured useable space for the capacity is maintained at all times. The Orange room was measured for capacity, but is currently used for storage.”
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Outdoor Area
“Ensure equipment where children’s feet leave the ground has proper fall zones extending 6 feet in all directions. Yellow room had a climber present with no fall zones present. Corrected when it was removed from the room at visit.”
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Diapering and Soiled Clothing
“Ensure changing area is no further than 5 feet from the handwashing sink.”
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Administration of Medication
“Ensure medication records (MAR) are complete if a medication prescribed or OTC are on site. 30 children need updated MARs.”
Jun 18, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review2 violations
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Personnel Files
“Ensure staff files are complete. One staff needs DEEDs certification. Two staff need first aid training. One staff needs OCCL’s Health and Safety training. One staff needs reference letters. Three staff need letter of eligibility. Two staff need service letters or two documented attempts for service letters.”
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Child Files
“Ensure child files are complete. Three children need blood lead screening results. One child needs updated health appraisal with immunizations.”
Jun 4, 2024: unannounced Full Compliance Review5 violations
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Personnel Files
The inspectors’ words, 124 words
“Ensure staff files are complete. Staff #1 needs training hours, and PD plan. Staff #2 needs CPR/First Aid, annual training hours, PD Plan, health appraisal with TB and service letters. Staff #3 needs First Aid training and service letters. Staff #4 needs 1 hour of health and safety training. Staff #5 needs service letters. Staff #6 needs annual training hours. Staff #7 needs annual training hours. Staff #8 needs CPR/First Aid and health appraisal with TB. Staff #9 needs Administration of Medication certification. Staff #10 needs PD plan. Staff #11 needs First Aid training. Staff #12 needs Administration of Medication certification, 11 hours of annual training, PD plan, and adult health appraisal. Staff #13 needs CPR/First Aid, health appraisal with TB and service letters.”
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Hazardous Materials
“Ensure cleaners, other than soap and water, are kept out of reach of children. Specialists noted cleaners in reach in the Blue, Green and Red rooms. This was discussed and corrected at visit when staff moved the items out of reach.”
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Indoor Space
“Ensure floors, walls and other surfaces are clean and in good repair. The ceiling in the Blue room has a tile ready to fall and needs to be fixed.”
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Kitchen and Food Preparation
“Ensure food is labeled with contents and expiration dates. Specialists noted several bags of cereal not labeled.”
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Toilet Facilities
“Ensure bathrooms are clean. The bathroom in the Blue room needs to be cleaned around the base of the toilet and under the floor mats.”
All 3 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
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| Jun 4, 2026 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 6 violations cited |
| Jun 18, 2025 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 2 violations cited |
| Jun 4, 2024 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 5 violations cited |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Child Care Center.
- Ages served, in Delaware’s words: 6 weeks through 5 years.
- Takes part in: Child Care Food Program (meals reimbursed).
- Delaware lists it as: Nonprofit.
- Licence number 296897.
- Capacity: 82 children.
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
Has Delaware acted against it?
- 8 complaint investigations in the last three years. Results, in Delaware’s words: Substantiated (5), No Evidence to Substantiate (2), No Evidence to Substantiate with Concern (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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| Oct 14, 2026 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate with Concern | The Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint on September 8, 2026, regarding not documenting sleep checks. An investigation was conducted on September 17, 2026. There is no evidence to substantiate not documenting sleep checks because staff provided documentation showing sleep checks are being conducted every 30 minutes during naptime. A concern noted was there is no ability to share the sleep checks with the parents in the daily report through the Bright Wheel app as required by Delacare Regulations. |
| Jul 7, 2026 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | The Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint on June 22, 2026, regarding safe sleep. An investigation was conducted on June 29, 2026. This complaint is substantiated for safe sleep non-compliance because during the investigation there were four infants asleep in either a chair or boppy pillow, one staff member had a child asleep in their arms, and one infant had a blanket draped across them. |
| Jun 24, 2026 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | On May 27, 2026, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding improper staff-to-child ratio and lack of positive behavior supports. An investigation was conducted on June 4, 2026. This complaint is substantiated for improper staff-to-child ratio because according to the attendance records, on May 27, 2026, the Blue Room was over ratio and over maximum group size with two staff members and up to 23 children, the youngest being three, from 8:25 am until 8:35 am. From 8:35 am until 9:00 am, there were 12 three-year-olds with one staff member. There is no evidence to substantiate lack of positive behavior supports because staff stated they never withheld food from the child; the child refused to come to the table to eat. |
| Feb 19, 2025 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | On January 30, 2025, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding not having sufficient staffing, improper staff-to-child ratio/mixing toddlers with older children, the administrator not being present, diaper changing procedures, child attendance, and caring for children in the lobby. An investigation was conducted on February 4, 2025. This complaint is substantiated for child attendance because according to attendance records, one child was not signed in and two children were not signed out of the classroom on January 30, 2025. This complaint is substantiated for caring for children in the lobby because according to staff, they sat at the front desk with children in care and on January 30, 2025, attendance records showed a staff member had two children at the front desk. There is no evidence to substantiate for diaper changing procedures because staff stated children are changed before combining classrooms, and staff stated if children need to be changed after that, they will take them into their assigned classroom to change them. A concern noted was according to the attendance records, there were four staff not signed out of the classrooms. There is no evidence to substantiate for insufficient staff or improper staff-to-child ratio/mixing toddlers with older children because according to attendance records and staffing roster, there was enough staff present, all classrooms were in proper staff-to-child ratio, and the toddlers did not mix with the older children. There is no evidence to substantiate the administrator not being present because according to the staff roster, the administrator and teachers trained in day-to-day are present daily. |
| Dec 13, 2024 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | The Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding not having a menu posted and not following meal pattern requirements. An investigation was conducted on December 11, 2024. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint because the menu is posted, and planned meals and changes meet the meal pattern requirements. |
| Oct 28, 2024 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | The Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding serving children food which is not safe to eat. An investigation was conducted on October 14, 2024. This complaint was substantiated because a staff member stated they gave a two-year-old child a lollipop. |
| Oct 7, 2024 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | The Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint on September 9, 2024, regarding not following meal pattern requirements and not being respectful. An investigation was conducted on September 25, 2024. There is no evidence to substantiate not following meal pattern requirements because staff stated all components of the menu are served and suitable substitutions are made when needed. There is no evidence to substantiate administration not being respectful because staff stated they have never heard administration speak to anyone in a disrespectful tone. |
| Jan 31, 2024 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | The Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint on January 4, 2023, regarding the center not following policies on positive behavior supports and not providing a quiet activity for children who do not sleep during naptime. An investigation was conducted on January 8, 2024. This complaint was substantiated for positive behavior supports because one staff stated two children did not receive their snack due to their behavior and another staff stated two children refused to wash their hands and were delayed in getting snack until their hands were washed, so by the time they received the snack, it was time to move on to the next activity, so they did not have enough time to eat.. There is no evidence to substantiate not providing a quiet activity at naptime because all interviewed staff stated children have nap sacks they receive after 30 minutes of rest. |
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: 1 facility injury. No facility deaths reported.
- 2024: 3 facility injuries. No facility deaths reported.
- 2023: 1 facility injury. No facility deaths reported.
- 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 |
|---|---|
| Delaware Tech Child Development Center Terry Campus 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 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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