Boys & Girls Club @ Smyrna Clayton
A licensed child care center in Smyrna, Delaware 19977
240 East Commerce Street, Smyrna, Delaware 19977. (302) 659-5610.
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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 Aug 19, 2026; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.
22 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
22 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2026. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.
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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.
Aug 19, 2026: unannounced Full Compliance Review5 violations
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Staff Attendance
“Ensure staff attendance includes exact hours worked in each classroom or area. Staff #1 in Room #1 and Staff #2 in Room #5 prefilled their departure time on the attendance records. This was discussed with staff and corrected when staff agreed to comply in the future.”
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Children’s Attendance
“Ensure child attendance is recorded to include exact arrival and departure times. Room #2 had 15 children present, but 17 children were signed in. Room #4 had 15 children present, but only 14 were signed in. Room #5 had 15 children present, but only 14 were signed in. This was discussed and corrected when the attendance records were updated.”
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Indoor Space
“Ensure walls are cleanable and in good repair. Clean the carpet in Room #1. Repair the metal strip under the last bathroom stall in the boy’s bathroom. Repair the broken and loose tiles in the Preschool classroom bathroom. Repair the wall under the window in Room #2. Ensure electrical outlets are covered. Several outlets in Room #1 need outlet covers.”
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Outdoor Area
“Ensure the outdoor play area is clean. Remove the trash and debris from the outdoor play area.”
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Activity Schedule
“Post a daily schedule in Room #3.”
Aug 13, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review10 violations
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Ratios, Group Size, and Supervision
The inspectors’ words, 134 words
“Ensure proper supervision is provided at all times. Upon arrival, this specialist observed five school-age children leave the outdoor play area, unsupervised and entered the building. The children were then seen walking to a staff member who was seated at a table inside the gym. This was discussed and corrected when staff agreed to comply in the future. Ensure proper staff-to-child ratios are maintained through the assignment of qualified staff. A staff member who is not 18 years old, and has not been fingerprinted and determined eligible was observed alone with a group of four school-age children in the gym. A second staff member who is qualified as an aide was observed taking two children to the bathroon in the gym. This was discussed and corrected when staff agreed to comply in the future.”
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Personnel Files
The inspectors’ words, 91 words
“Ensure staff files are complete. Two staff need CPR and first aid certification. One staff needs first aid certification. Five staff need to update their administration of medication training/certification. One staff needs a DEEDS Early Learning qualifications certificate. One staff needs a professional development plan. One staff needs to complete OCCL’s Health and Safety Training for Child Care Professionals. Four staff need additional references. One staff needs an eligibility letter. One staff needs an adult health appraisal with TB results. One staff needs a health appraisal. Two staff need service letters.”
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Child Files
“Ensure child files are complete. One child needs screen time permission.”
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Indoor Space
The inspectors’ words, 106 words
“Ensure floors, walls, and counter surfaces are cleanable.. The wall under the soap dispenser in the boys bathroom needs to be repaired. Ensure toilets are in good repair. Repair the broken toilet in the boys bathroom. Provide individual labeled storage spaces for the children in Room 109. The children’s belongings were observed touching on a cart due to no other storage option. Ensure electrical outlets are covered. The power strip in Room 4 needs covers in all open outlets. Ensure trash is covered. Room 109’s trash can is not covered. Discontinue the use of air fresheners. Room 4 needs to remove the can of air freshener.”
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Kitchen and Food Preparation
“Ensure food storage areas are clean. Clean the bottom shelf of the refrigerator.”
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Toilet Facilities
The inspectors’ words, 119 words
“Ensure all bathrooms have an operable window or ventilation fan. This specialist was unable to determine if the ventilation fans in the girls and the boys bathrooms were working properly. Ensure paper towels are available in the bathroom. The bathroom located in the preschool classroom needs paper towels. The hand-drying device was not operating. Ensure the bathrooms are clean. The boys bathroom has a strong urine odor. Clean the bathroom to eliminate the odor. A used feminine hygiene product was observed along the window sill behind the bathroom stall in the girls bathroom. Clean the bathroom and remove the feminine hygiene product. Repair the faucet on the first sink in the boys bathroom. This faucet is loose and moving.”
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Outdoor Area
The inspectors’ words, 101 words
“Remove the shovel from the preschool outdoor play area. Provide a cover for the trash can in the preschool outdoor play area. Ensure the gates to the preschool outdoor play area are self-closing and self-latching. The front gate has a self-latching mechanism, but does not self-close. The back gate has a push bar mechanism that is in the children’s reach. This gate needs a self-closing and self-latching mechanisms, that are out of the children’s reach. Replenish the mulch in all areas where the equipment and swings are designed for the children’s feet to leave the ground with 9 inches of mulch.”
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Sanitation
“Ensure soap/water and sanitizer/disinfectant is available. Room 5 needs sanitaizer/disinfectant.”
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First Aid Kits
“Purchase bandage tape, eye patch, first aid guide, gloves, pen and note pad, plastic bags, roll gauze, safety pins, scissors, thermometer, triangle bandage or sling, and tweezers for the travel first aid kit in the white van.”
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Lesson Plans
“Ensure lesson plans contain daily opportunities for physical, social-emotional, language/literacy, and cognitive development activities for the preschool classroom. Ensure a monthly activity plan is posted and shows school-age children working on projects that require extended time to complete in such topics as science, math, social studies, language arts, cooking, drama, creative arts, or music for all school-age classrooms.”
Aug 5, 2024: unannounced Full Compliance Review7 violations
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Personnel Files
The inspectors’ words, 137 words
“Ensure staff files are complete. Six staff need CPR and First Aid certification. One staff needs a professional Development plan. One staff needs an annual review of abuse and neglect. Four staff need orientation. Three staff need Health and Safety For Child Care Professionals training. One staff member needs an application, resume, or personal data sheet. Three staff need a job description. Eight staff need the appropriate amount of references. Two staff need an employee declaration and a drug and alcohol statement. One staff needs a letter of eligibility on file. One staff needs an adult abuse check completed. four staff need an adult health appraisal on OCCL’s format, and five staff need a TB test result. Two staff need a release of employment history. Eight staff need initial or follow-up service letter requests from previous employers.”
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Hazardous Materials
“Provide each classroom and bathroom with at least a labeled soap and water and a bleach and water bottle. Remove cleaners from children’s reach. One classroom has a bucket of cleaners on the floor.”
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Indoor Space
The inspectors’ words, 138 words
“Thirty-five square feet of useable floor space for each child is required. Remove the teacher-only areas or have the areas remeasured. Clean trash can lids in all classrooms. Ensure extension cords with outlets not in use are covered, and wall outlets not in use have covers. Ensure all soft materials are clean and laundered weekly. Ensure materials and their storage are clean. At least weekly, a licensee shall ensure non-porous toys and play equipment are washed with a soap and water solution and then disinfected. Ensure stained ceiling tiles are replaced in the Pre-K classroom. Ensure the walls are good repair the peeling paint and missing wall tile in the Pre-K bathroom. Personal belongings storage areas need to be relabeled in classroom 112. Classrooms 112 and 105 have labels peeling off, attracting debris and dirt; remove the labels.”
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Outdoor Area
“Ensure the protective surface of the outdoor play area beneath and in the fall zones of climbing equipment, slides, swings, and similar equipment is of approved resilient material, which absorbs falls. Ensure protective surfaces of the fall zone extend at least six feet in all directions from the equipment. For swings, a licensee shall ensure the protective surfacing extends, in back and front, twice the height of the suspending bar unless otherwise directed by the CPSC or other recognized authority on playground safety”
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Administration of Medication
“Ensure that expired medication is returned to the guardian. Prescription medication boxes must contain a pharmacy label for each box containing medication.”
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First Aid Kits
“Ensure the travel first aid kit contains soap, water, a finger splint, an instant cold pack, and roll gauze.”
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Changes Affecting a License
“A licensee shall submit a revised plan review and receive approval before making additions or renovations to the indoor areas. LS observed the previous food preparation and storage area being remodeled. Further conversation disclosed that the area’s use will change.”
All 3 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
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| Aug 19, 2026 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 5 violations cited |
| Aug 13, 2025 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 10 violations cited |
| Aug 5, 2024 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 7 violations cited |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Child Care Center.
- Ages served, in Delaware’s words: 3 years through 12 years.
- Takes part in: Child Care Food Program (meals reimbursed), Purchase of Care (state-subsidized child care).
- Delaware lists it as: Nonprofit.
- Special conditions, in Delaware’s words: Variance.
- Licence number 552340.
- Capacity: 125 children.
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
Has Delaware acted against it?
- 3 complaint investigations in the last three years. Results, in Delaware’s words: Substantiated (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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| Aug 5, 2026 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate with Concern | On June 25, 2026, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding the suspension/expulsion policy. An investigation was conducted on July 15, 2026. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint because the facility documented the incident through an Accident/Injury Report and a Behavior Incident Report, provided first aid, contacted OCCL to notify them of the injury, and imposed a documented five-day suspension on Child #2 following the center s suspension policy. A concern noted was according to staff interviews and the Accident/Injury Report, Child #1 received a head injury at 3:30 pm and Child #1 s parents were not notified until 4:45 pm at pick-up. |
| Jul 28, 2026 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | On July 13, 2026, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding lack of positive behavior supports, improper staff-to-child ratio, lack of supervision, improper sanitation, accident/injury procedures, and not using age-appropriate music. An investigation was conducted on July 15, 2026. The complaint is substantiated for improper staff-to-child ratio and improper sanitation. According to the attendance record for July 8, 2026, the preschool classroom had up to 12 children, the youngest being three with one staff member until 8:30 am when the second staff member arrived. According to staff statements, two staff stated the facility was without a sanitizer solution for a period of time and the preschool classroom floors were not being mopped daily. There is no evidence to substantiate regarding lack of positive behavior supports, lack of supervision, accident/injury procedures, and not using age-appropriate music because interviewed staff denied the allegations. A concern noted was upon reviewing attendance records for the day of the visit, LS #1 observed Staff #2 was present but had not signed into the attendance record, and Child #2 had only a check mark documented on the attendance record rather than a recorded arrival time. |
| Nov 18, 2025 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | On October 28, 2025, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding classroom capacity and the administrator not being respectful. An investigation was conducted on October 29, 2025. The complaint is substantiated for classroom capacity and the administrator not being respectful by using threatening tones and actions when speaking and interacting with others at the center. According to attendance records provided to LS #1, Group 1 s classroom has up to twelve children present at one time, but the classroom only measures for eleven children. During interviews with staff, multiple staff members reported Administrator #1 has engaged in behavior and communication that staff members have identified as inappropriate and disrespectful. |
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: 2 facility injuries. No facility deaths reported.
- 2025: 1 facility injury. No facility deaths reported.
- 2024: 1 facility injury. No facility deaths reported.
- 2021: 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 |
|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Club @ Smyrna Clayton This child care provider | Not given |
| Gift of Love Early Learning Center | Not given |
| Little Kid’s Swagg Learning Center, LLC | Not given |
| Patrice Battaglia | Not given |
| Elizabeth E. Walls | Not given |
| Iris Coleman-Buckner DBA Mini Miracles Playschool, LLC | Not given |
| Cadence Academy Preschool-Smyrna | Not given |
| Children & Families First Head Start Smyrna | Not given |
| Rainbow Xpress Learning Academy, LLC. | Not given |
| Georgina Ruiz | Not given |
| C4d Kidz Nursery | Not given |
| Kirsten Swift | Not given |
| Brightpath Smyrna | 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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