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Linda Lawrence

A licensed family child care in New Castle, Delaware 19720

208 Mansion Parkway, New Castle, Delaware 19720. (302) 425-3511.

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The short answer

Record last released by Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing on Nov 1, 2026.

The last 24 months 17 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 15, 2026; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.

17 violations cited in the last three years.

Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information. Released Nov 1, 2026. Updated daily.

When those violations happened

17 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2026. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 2026.

17 violations by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
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2023 Dec
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 Nov 1, 2026. Updated daily.

Oct 15, 2026: unannounced Full Compliance Review4 violations
  • Indoor Space

    “Ensure indoor spaces are compliant. Install transition strip where kitchen flooring meets hallyway flooring to prevent tripping hazard. Send photo to OCCL.”

    Rule 29P.

  • Diapering and Soiled Clothing

    “Ensure diaper changing area is compliant. * Dedicated foot-operated diaper trash can must be within arms reach of changing table. *Clear items stored on diaper changing pad so it is readily accessible for use. Send photos to OCCL.”

    Rule 40P.

  • Administration of Medication

    “Ensure a MAR is completed for all OTC topical medications before use. Provide MAR for A+D ointment, Triplepaste and Vaseline observed and any other medications at program. Send photo to OCCL.”

    Rule 42P.

  • License Renewal

    “Ensure renewal application is submitted by October 1 annually. Mail completed application to OCCL.”

    Rule 8P.

Oct 24, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review6 violations
  • Parents Right to Know Act

    “Ensure Parents Right to Know log is kept up-to-date. Please send a copy with new parents signature.”

    Rule 21P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Nov 10, 2025.

  • Children’s Files

    “Ensure child files are complete. Child #3 needs an updated Infant Feeding log. Please send pictures to OCCL.”

    Rule 22P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Nov 10, 2025.

  • Fire Safety

    “Batteries in the smoke detector need to be changed- send picture to OCCL.”

    Rule 30P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Nov 10, 2025.

  • Diapering and Soiled Clothing

    “Children need to be diapered on a non-porous washable surface. A travel diaper changing mat is acceptable. Please send picture to OCCL.”

    Rule 40P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Nov 10, 2025.

  • Feeding of Infants

    “Ensure daily logs are completed right after routines (diaper changing, feeding, sleeping, etc.) Please send daily logs for Child #3 for 10/27/25-10/29/25.”

    Rule 51P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Nov 10, 2025.

  • Training

    “Annual training hours needed, CPR and First Aid expired 10/2025, need updated. Send certificates/transcripts to OCCL.”

    Rule 56P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Nov 17, 2025.

Oct 1, 2024: unannounced Full Compliance Review7 violations
  • Parents Right to Know Act

    “Submit a current annual parent’s right to know log.”

    Rule 21P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Nov 1, 2024.

  • Children’s Files

    “Submit the following to complete children’s files: Blood lead test results for two children, a health appraisal w/ immunizations for one child, date of enrollment and transportation permission for one child.”

    Rule 22P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 16, 2024.

  • Hazardous Materials

    “Submit a current radon test indicating correct levels.”

    Rule 27P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 16, 2024.

  • Fire Safety

    “Submit documentation of a completed monthly fire safety checklist for October.”

    Rule 30P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Nov 1, 2024.

  • Kitchen and Food Preparation

    “Submit documentation of the thermometer in the refrigerator reading 41 degrees F. or below.”

    Rule 31P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Nov 20, 2024.

  • Emergency Planning

    “Submit documentation of a completed monthly evacuation drill for October.”

    Rule 45P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Nov 1, 2024.

  • Training

    “Submit documentation of 12 hours of annual training with two in health and safety. This was not determined at the visit and became non-compliant on 10-31-24.”

    Rule 56P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 30, 2024.

All 3 visits on record
Visits on record
DateVisitWhat the record says
Oct 15, 2026Unannounced Full Compliance Review4 violations cited
Oct 24, 2025Unannounced Full Compliance Review6 violations cited
Oct 1, 2024Unannounced Full Compliance Review7 violations cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Family Child Care.
  • Ages served, in Delaware’s words: 6 weeks through 12 years.
  • Takes part in: Purchase of Care (state-subsidized child care).
  • Licence number 461433.
  • Capacity: 9 children.
Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Nov 1, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Delaware acted against it?

  • No complaint investigations in the last three years.
Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Complaint Reviews and Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Nov 1, 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?

  • No facility injuries reported. No facility deaths reported.
Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Nov 1, 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 Nov 1, 2026. Updated daily.

13 compared
PlaceViolations cited in the last three years
Linda Lawrence 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 Nov 2, 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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