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YMCA of Delaware/Colwyck

A licensed child care center in New Castle, Delaware 19720

12 Landers Lane, New Castle, Delaware 19720. (302) 257-5856.

Delaware’s own record, on data.delaware.gov

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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 14 violations in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 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?

2 visits with violations in the last three years, the latest on Sep 10, 2025; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.

14 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

14 violations in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2025. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

14 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.

Sep 10, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review2 violations

  • Personnel Files

    “Ensure staff files are complete. Send Staff #1’s full file to OCCL.”

    Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Sep 25, 2025.

  • Child Files

    “Ensure child files are complete. Date of enrollment, hours/days to attend, emergency card info, Parent’s right to know, and screentime permission needed for Child #1, 3, 4, 5, 6.”

    Rule 40U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Sep 25, 2025.

Sep 16, 2024: unannounced Full Compliance Review12 violations

  • Positive Behavior Management

    “Post the behavior management policy.”

    Rule 20U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Sep 19, 2024.

  • Personnel Files

    “Submit documentation of complete staff files for both staff members. All files were not available at the time of the visit.”

    Rule 30U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 18, 2024.

  • Annual Training

    “Submit documentation of completion of annual training hours. Four are needed for one staff member and nine for the other.”

    Rule 33U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 18, 2024.

  • Staff Attendance

    “All staff must sign in and out with each arrival and departure.”

    Rule 36U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Sep 16, 2024.

  • Parents Right to Know

    “Submit the completed Parents Right to Know log.”

    Rule 38U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 10, 2024.

  • Child Files

    “Submit documentation of complete children’s files. Files were not available for all enrolled children during the visit.”

    Rule 40U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Sep 17, 2024.

  • Children’s Attendance

    “Children must be signed in and out with each arrival and departure.”

    Rule 43U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Sep 16, 2024.

  • Indoor Space

    “All outlets must be covered. Send photos to OCCL.”

    Rule 49U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Sep 19, 2024.

  • Sanitation

    “Submit a photo of accessible soap and water solution for cleaning.”

    Rule 58U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 8, 2024.

  • Emergency Planning

    “Post an accurate evacuation plan. Due to the beginning of the school year, evacuation drills and safety checks were noted as not-determined. Submit documentation of completion of at least one by 10-10-24.”

    Rule 66U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 3, 2024.

  • License Requirements

    “Post the current OCCL license.”

    Rule 6U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Sep 19, 2024.

  • Activity Schedule

    “Post a daily schedule.”

    Rule 76U. Correction date, as Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing recorded it: Oct 10, 2024.

All 2 visits on record
Visits on record
DateVisitWhat the record says
Sep 10, 2025Unannounced Full Compliance Review2 violations cited
Sep 16, 2024Unannounced Full Compliance Review12 violations cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Child Care Center.
  • Ages served, in Delaware’s words: 3 years through 5 years.
  • Takes part in: Child Care Food Program (meals reimbursed), Purchase of Care (state-subsidized child care).
  • Licence number 702879.
  • Capacity: 23 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
YMCA of Delaware/Colwyck 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.

From the provider

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Replies

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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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