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Whatcoat Christian Preschool

A licensed child care center in Camden, Delaware 19934

16 North Main Street, Camden, Delaware 19934. (302) 698-2108.

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The short answer

Record last released by Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing on Oct 23, 2026.

The last 24 months 13 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Mar 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 Mar 17, 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 23, 2026. Updated daily.

When those violations happened

13 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Mar 2026. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

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

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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 Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.

Mar 17, 2026: unannounced Full Compliance Review5 violations

  • Personnel Files

    “Ensure staff files are complete. One staff needs a PD plan. One staff needs orientation, OCCL’s Health and Safety training, 2 references, release of employment, service letters or two documented attempts with 2 additional references.”

    Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Apr 14, 2026.

  • Parents Right to Know

    “Ensure Parents Right to Know log is completed for new and touring families.”

    Rule 38U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Mar 23, 2026.

  • Child Files

    “Ensure child files are complete. One child needs updated health appraisal with immunizations. One child needs updated immunizations.”

    Rule 40U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Apr 13, 2026.

  • Outdoor Area

    “Ensure fall zones have at least nine inches of material extending 6 feet in all directions of the play equipment.”

    Rule 53U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Mar 31, 2026.

  • First Aid Kits

    “Ensure first aid kit is complete. Kit was missing bandage tape.”

    Rule 65U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Mar 24, 2026.

Mar 11, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review7 violations

  • Personnel Files

    “Ensure staff files are complete. Seven staff need a PD plan. One staff needs annual review of abuse and neglect.”

    Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Apr 8, 2025.

  • Child Files

    “Ensure child files are complete. Four children need date of enrollment. Seven children need days and hours of attending. Four children need transportation permission. Three children need an emergency card. Three children need updated health appraisals with immunizations. One child needs blood lead screening results. Three children need Parents Right Know and Screentime permissions. Three children need a development plan. One child needs an updated MAR for occasional use and medication labeled.”

    Rule 40U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Mar 21, 2025.

  • Hazardous Materials

    “Ensure radon testing is completed every five years.”

    Rule 45U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Mar 12, 2025.

  • Diapering and Soiled Clothing

    “Ensure diaper procedures are posted in the diaper changing area.”

    Rule 61U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Mar 18, 2025.

  • Emergency Planning

    “Ensure fire drills are conducted monthly.”

    Rule 66U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Apr 8, 2025.

  • Activity Schedule

    “Ensure daily schedule is posted in each classroom.”

    Rule 76U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Mar 18, 2025.

  • License Renewal

    “Ensure a notarized renewal application is submitted at least 60 days before license expires.”

    Rule 8U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Mar 12, 2025.

Mar 1, 2024: unannounced Full Compliance Review1 violation

  • Personnel Files

    “Ensure staff files are complete. Three staff need letters of eligibility on file. One Staff member needs CPR and first aid certification and references. Two staff need a job descriptions, health, and safety for child care providers”

    Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Apr 15, 2024.

All 3 visits on record
Visits on record
DateVisitWhat the record says
Mar 17, 2026Unannounced Full Compliance Review5 violations cited
Mar 11, 2025Unannounced Full Compliance Review7 violations cited
Mar 1, 2024Unannounced Full Compliance Review1 violation cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Child Care Center.
  • Ages served, in Delaware’s words: 2 years through 5 years.
  • Takes part in: Purchase of Care (state-subsidized child care).
  • Delaware lists it as: Nonprofit.
  • Licence number 505742.
  • Capacity: 36 children.
Source:

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.
Source:

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?

  • 2021: 1 facility injury. No facility deaths reported.
Source:

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.
Source:

Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.

12 compared
PlaceViolations cited in the last three years
Shell’s Early Learning Center - CamdenNot given
St. Paul’s Nature PreschoolNot given
The Next Step Learning Center at CamdenNot given
Shell’s Early Learning Camden CenterNot given
Sandra LayteNot given
Gwendolyn RashNot given
Annette D RadcliffeNot given
Mary SkodzinskiNot given
Whatcoat Christian Preschool This child care providerNot given
Angela SmithNot given
The Children’s Place II, Inc.Not given
Boys & Girls Club @ W. B. Simpson Elementary SchoolNot 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 24, 2026.

From the provider

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Replies

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How to read a record

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An example nursing home

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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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