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Darul-Amaanah Academy

A licensed child care center in New Castle, Delaware 19720

19 Lambson Ln, New Castle, Delaware 19720. (302) 521-2064.

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The short answer

Record last released by Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing on Oct 29, 2026.

The last 24 months 13 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 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 Oct 7, 2026; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.

13 violations cited in the last three years.

Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information. Released Oct 29, 2026. Updated daily.

When those violations happened

13 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2026. The last 3 years, to Oct 30, 2026.

13 violations by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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2023 NovDec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct

Hover or focus a month to read it.

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 29, 2026. Updated daily.

Oct 7, 2026: unannounced Full Compliance Review5 violations

  • Personnel Files

    “Ensure staff files are complete. Staff #1 needs OCCL H&S training; health appraisal w/TB. Staff #2 needs PD plan.”

    Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 21, 2026.

  • Staff Attendance

    “Ensure staff are signed in/out of classrooms.”

    Rule 36U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 23, 2026.

  • Child Files

    “Ensure child files are complete. Child #2, 13, 15 need immunizations or signed waiver (notarized). Child #4 needs medication permission.”

    Rule 40U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 21, 2026.

  • Children’s Attendance

    “Ensure children’s attendance is completed. Some were signed out by parents ahead of time.”

    Rule 43U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 23, 2026.

  • Administration of Medication

    “Ensure medication administration records are completed on the correct forms.”

    Rule 63U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 21, 2026.

Oct 3, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review4 violations

  • Personnel Files

    The inspectors’ words, 136 words

    “Ensure staff files are complete. Staff #1 needs PD, annual abuse, orientation, release of employment. Staff #2 needs PD, app/resume, job description. Staff #3 needs PD, adult abuse, release of employment, service letters. Staff #4 needs annual abuse & neg. review. Staff #5 needs orientation, OCCL training, app/resume, job description, references, declaration, drug/alcohol statement, adult abuse check, health appraisal/TB, release of employment, service letters. Staff #6 needs PD plan, Staff #7, #8 needs PD, annual abuse & neg. Staff #9 needs updated medication certification, PD plan. Staff #10, #11 needs PD plan, annual abuse & neg. Staff #12 needs CPR/FA, med cert, PD plan, OCCL H & S training, health appraisal/TB, release of employment, service letters. Staff #6 needs18 training hours, #8 needs 9 training hours, #10 needs 9 training hours, #12 needs 18 training hours”

    Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Nov 19, 2025.

  • Child Files

    “Ensure child files are complete. Child #1, #5, #8 need blood lead testing. Child #3 needs health appraisal. Child #7 needs screen permission signed.”

    Rule 40U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Nov 19, 2025.

  • Documenting Children’s Progress

    “Ensure developmental plans are updated.”

    Rule 42U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Nov 21, 2025.

  • Kitchen and Food Preparation

    “Ensure an updated food establishment is available. Ex. 8.1.25.”

    Rule 50U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 6, 2025.

Oct 18, 2024: unannounced Full Compliance Review4 violations

  • Personnel Files

    “Ensure staff files are complete. Staf #2 needs orientation, declaration and drug/alchol statement, health appraisal w, TB, release of employment, service letters (attempts/returns), one more reference. Staff #3 service letters needed returned or attempts shown, Staff #4 service letters needed returned or attempts shown, Staff #5 needs application or data sheet, Staff #6 needs full file.”

    Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 13, 2024.

  • Child Files

    “Ensure child files are complete. Blood lead screening or exemption notarized for Child #1, 4, 11, 15. Screen time permission Child #2, 3, 5, 6. Developmental Plan for child #2, 3, 7, 8.”

    Rule 40U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Nov 19, 2024.

  • Children’s Attendance

    “Ensure child and staf attendance is tracked. OCCL is sending attendance sheet by 10-21-24 and please send to OCCL attendance sheets for dates October 23-25, 2024.”

    Rule 43U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Nov 18, 2024.

  • Hazardous Materials

    “Room #116, #117 needs labels for bottles.”

    Rule 45U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Nov 18, 2024.

All 3 visits on record
Visits on record
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 7, 2026Unannounced Full Compliance Review5 violations cited
Oct 3, 2025Unannounced Full Compliance Review4 violations cited
Oct 18, 2024Unannounced Full Compliance Review4 violations cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Child Care Center.
  • Ages served, in Delaware’s words: 18 months through 12 years.
  • Takes part in: Purchase of Care (state-subsidized child care).
  • Delaware lists it as: Nonprofit.
  • Licence number 372915.
  • Capacity: 110 children.
Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Oct 29, 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 (1).
Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Complaint Reviews and Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Oct 29, 2026. Updated daily.

On record, newest first
DateWhatDetail
Oct 28, 2026OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to SubstantiateOn October 1, 2026, the Office of Child Care licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding failing to follow policies for video recording and reporting information relating to a child, using inappropriate behavior supports, and incorrect staff-to-child ratio. An investigation was conducted on October 7, 2026. Based on staff interviews, video, and documents reviewed there is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for failing to follow policies for video recording and reporting information relating to the child. Owner #1 stated all families review the parent handbook and sign off that it has been reviewed. Owner #1 and the parent handbook stated parents must put in writing if they do not want their child being photographed or videoed in the facility, whether by cell phone or facility cameras. LS #1 reviewed an incident report from September 2, 2026, and the facility contacted the parent to discuss the incident on September 18, 2026. Based on staff interviews, video, and documents reviewed there is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for using inappropriate behavior supports. Owner #1, Staff #1, and Staff #2 stated they have never withheld food as means of discipline. Owner #1 stated they walked around outside with Child #1 during outdoor play time because of the behaviors Child #1 exhibited toward staff and other children. Based on staff interviews and documents reviewed there is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for incorrect staff-to-child ratio. Staff members stated they have not been out of correct staff-to-child ratio, which was confirmed by a review of attendance documentation.

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 29, 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 29, 2026. Updated daily.

13 compared
PlaceViolations cited in the last three years
Darul-Amaanah Academy This child care providerNot given
Rebekah MercerNot given
Sherell ThomasNot given
Joy HarveyNot given
Boys & Girls Club @ New CastleNot given
YMCA of Delaware/New CastleNot given
Latoya JacksonNot given
Brickhouse Care Academy CorporationNot given
Sara HaytonNot given
Comforts of Home Preschool LLCNot given
Teachable MomentsNot given
Seeds of Greatness Early Learning CenterNot given
Lorraine CaliNot 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 30, 2026.

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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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