Boys & Girls Club @ Dagsboro
A licensed child care center in Dagsboro, Delaware 19939
28154 Lighthouse Xing, Dagsboro, Delaware 19939. (302) 732-6636.
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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 Mar 2, 2026; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.
6 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
6 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Mar 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.
Mar 2, 2026: unannounced Full Compliance Review3 violations
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Ratios, Group Size, and Supervision
The inspectors’ words, 123 words
“Ensure direct supervision is maintained at all times. LS observed a 2nd-grade classroom in which a child left the room unaccompanied to use the bathroom. LS Informed staff in the room that they must accompany children to any part of the facility and maintain a staff-to-child ratio while doing so. LS observed staff at the front desk radioing to the classroom for a child, then a child left the classroom to meet their guardian at the front door, with no staff in the hallway with the child. LS observed a child leave a back classroom, run down the hallway to the front door, and give another child something that was left in the classroom. No staff were in the hallway with the child.”
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Personnel Files
“Ensure staff files are complete. One staff member needs a professional development plan. One staff member needs an orientation. One staff member needs Health and Safety for Child Care professionals training. Five staff members need additional references. Three staff members need the adult abuse registry check results. Three staff members need health appraisals with TB results. Three staff members need a release of employment history completed. Four staff members need attempts for service letters.”
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Administration of Medication
The inspectors’ words, 118 words
“Ensure staff administering medication have the Administration of Medication certification. Ensure that a Medication Administration Record (MAR) is completed, that MARs are correctly documented, that medication is labeled in its original package with the pharmacy label, and that medication is not expired. A staff member administered medication on 1/12/26 and 1/16/26. The certification to administer medication expired and was recertified on 2/17/26. A staff member administered medication on 12/22-23/2025, 12/29-30/25, and 2/26/26 and was not certified until 2/28/2026. 17 medications on site have no MAR. 10 MARs on site were not completed correctly. Five medications have no names of the medications. One child no longer attends, and the medication expired on October 14, 2025. Three medications have expired.”
Mar 4, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review2 violations
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Staff Qualifications
“An early childhood aide may be 15 years old if attending a high school s early childhood education program and enrollment documentation is on file at the center.”
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Personnel Files
“Ensure staff files are complete. Three staff members need complete files, two need health and Safety for Child Care Professionals Training, and one staff member needs a health appraisal with TB results.”
Mar 1, 2024: unannounced Full Compliance Review1 violation
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Personnel Files
“Ensure staff files are complete. One staff member needs an entire file. One staff member needs an attempt to receive a service letter from prior child care employer.”
All 3 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 2026 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 3 violations cited |
| Mar 4, 2025 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 2 violations cited |
| Mar 1, 2024 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 1 violation cited |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Child Care Center.
- Ages served, in Delaware’s words: Kindergarten through 12 years.
- Takes part in: Child Care Food Program (meals reimbursed), Purchase of Care (state-subsidized child care).
- Delaware lists it as: Nonprofit.
- Licence number 580472.
- Capacity: 212 children.
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
Has Delaware acted against it?
- 4 complaint investigations in the last three years. Results, in Delaware’s words: Substantiated (2), No Evidence to Substantiate (1), Unsubstantiated 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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| Jan 21, 2026 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | The Office of Child Care Licensing received a complaint on December 11, 2025, regarding a staff member revealing the middle finger with children present, a staff member wanting to fight a parent in the presence of children, a staff member vaping in the facility, a staff member using an illegal substance at the facility, and lack of positive behavior management. An investigation was conducted on December 15, 2025. The allegation of not modeling appropriate behavior is substantiated because staff stated in statements gathered by the facility that Staff #1 did use their middle finger while children were in care and was reprimanded for the incident. There is no evidence to substantiate the complaint of vaping in the facility because the staff all denied that they vape in the facility and no vaping was observed or smelled at the time of the visit. There is no evidence to substantiate the allegation of consuming illegal substances at the facility because staff denied that any illegal substances are used at the facility and there was no evidence during the visit of use in the facility or staff presenting themselves as under the influence. There is no evidence to substantiate the allegation that positive behavior management was not used in the classroom, as staff and children denied verbal or physical harm to the children. There is no evidence to substantiate the allegation that Staff #1 wanted to fight at the facility while children were present because the staff member who viewed the video of the incident stated they did not interpret the staff member taking off their over shirt and placing it in their vehicle as a threat and that it is typical behavior for this staff member. |
| May 22, 2025 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | The Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint on April 28, 2025, regarding positive behavior support and unqualified staff alone with children. An investigation was conducted on May 1, 2025, after clearance from other agencies was received. There is no evidence to substantiate the allegation of lack of positive behavior support because the staff and children stated that the only time a staff member raised their voice was for attention to directions when callbacks did not work, not for discipline. All staff and children stated they were not harmed by staff physically or verbally, and staff stated they have not received a parent or child complaint about staff harming a child. There is no evidence to substantiate the allegation of unqualified staff with children because the teen area is not required to be licensed with OCCL, and the attendance for the middle school classroom shows two staff members in the classroom. |
| Oct 21, 2024 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | OCCL s investigation of regulatory non-compliance began after clearance from other agencies was received. The Office of Child Care Licensing received a complaint regarding improper discipline on July 16, 2024. An investigation was conducted on October 7, 2024. The complaint is substantiated for improper discipline because a staff member grabbed Child #1 by the arm. This staff member s employment was terminated. A concern noted was the center did not report the allegation to the Child Abuse and Neglect hotline. |
| Oct 15, 2024 | IA Investigation: Unsubstantiated with Concern | Delaware gives no summary. |
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: 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 |
|---|---|
| Discovery Island Early Care and Preschool | Not given |
| Kidz Akademy Inc. Learning Center | Not given |
| Ellen Tietmeyer | Not given |
| Boys & Girls Club @ Dagsboro This child care provider | Not given |
| Lullaby Learning Center, Inc. | Not given |
| Tops Childcare LLC | Not given |
| Children’s Place Child Development Center | Not given |
| Beach Buddies School Age Program | Not given |
| Little Einstein’s Preschool - Millsboro | Not given |
| Gigglebugs Early Learning Center, LLC | Not given |
| Boys & Girls Club @ Milford | Not given |
| Piper’s Playhouse/Geraldine Piper | 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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