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Carol Felton

A licensed family child care in New Castle, Delaware 19720

101 Hillview Avenue, New Castle, Delaware 19720. (302) 656-5364.

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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 16 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Dec 2025. 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 Dec 11, 2025; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.

16 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

16 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Dec 2025. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

16 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.

Dec 11, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review10 violations

  • Parents Right to Know Act

    “Ensure the Parents Right to Know Log is completed upon tours.”

    Rule 21P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 23, 2026.

  • Children’s Files

    “Ensure children’s files are complete. Child #1 needs blood lead screening. Child #2 needs enrollment and emergency forms completed, health appraisal, Parents Right to Know permissions signed, infant feeding schedule.”

    Rule 22P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 23, 2026.

  • Daily Attendance of Children

    “Ensure children’s daily attendance is completed.”

    Rule 24P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 29, 2025.

  • Fire Safety

    “Ensure fire extinguisher is mounted. Monthly inspection is complete.”

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

  • Sleeping Accommodations and Safe Sleep Environments

    “Ensure safe sleep practices. Bassinettes or side sleepers are prohibited. Must be crib, pack-n-play, or playpen.”

    Rule 35P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 23, 2026.

  • First Aid Kit

    “Ensure first aid kit is complete. Needs an eye patch and splints.”

    Rule 44P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 14, 2026.

  • Emergency Planning

    “Ensure monthly fire drills are complete.”

    Rule 45P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 29, 2025.

  • Feeding of Infants

    “Ensure infant feeding schedules are complete.”

    Rule 51P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 29, 2025.

  • Training

    “Ensure 12 clock hours are completed prior to, at least 30 days before, license expiration.”

    Rule 56P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Feb 19, 2026.

  • License Renewal

    “Ensure renewal application is complete.”

    Rule 8P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 29, 2025.

Dec 11, 2024: unannounced Full Compliance Review5 violations

  • Children’s Files

    “Ensure child files are complete. Child #2 needs blood lead screening. Child #3 needs health appraisal and blood lead screening. Child #4 needs health appraisal. Child #5 needs health appraisal and blood lead screening. Child #9 needs parents right to know, screen time permission. Child #10 needs infant feeding schedule.”

    Rule 22P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 15, 2025.

  • Hazardous Materials

    “Ensure radon is completed every 5 years.”

    Rule 27P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 22, 2025.

  • Indoor Space

    “Ensure water temperature is below 120’. The children’s bathroom is reading 148’+. Ensure electrical inspection is completed every 3 years.”

    Rule 29P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 15, 2025.

  • Sleeping Accommodations and Safe Sleep Environments

    “Ensure sleeping accommodations are met for safe sleep. Pack-n-play or crib needed for infants.”

    Rule 35P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 17, 2024.

  • Sanitation

    “Ensure soap and water and sanitizer are available.”

    Rule 37P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Dec 17, 2024.

Dec 6, 2023: unannounced Full Compliance Review1 violation

  • Children’s Files

    “All child files must be complete. Send the current health appraisal with immunizations for four children. Send the documentation of the completed blood lead screening for two children.”

    Rule 22P. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Jan 8, 2024.

All 3 visits on record
Visits on record
DateVisitWhat the record says
Dec 11, 2025Unannounced Full Compliance Review10 violations cited
Dec 11, 2024Unannounced Full Compliance Review5 violations cited
Dec 6, 2023Unannounced Full Compliance Review1 violation cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Family Child Care.
  • Ages served, in Delaware’s words: 6 months through 12 years.
  • Takes part in: Child Care Food Program (meals reimbursed), Purchase of Care (state-subsidized child care).
  • Licence number 54931.
  • Capacity: 9 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?

  • No facility injuries reported. 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.

13 compared
PlaceViolations cited in the last three years
Carol Felton 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 24, 2026.

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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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