Dover’s Childrens Village
A licensed child care center in Dover, Delaware 19904
726 Woodcrest Drive, Dover, Delaware 19904. (302) 672-6476.
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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?
2 visits with violations in the last three years, the latest on Aug 4, 2025; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.
3 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
3 violations in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Aug 2025. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.
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| 2026 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct |
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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 4, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review2 violations
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Administration of Medication
“Unused medication must be returned to the parent or guardian when no longer needed by the child.”
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Child Accident and Injury
“Ensure the daily record includes documentation that each infant was checked every 30 minutes when placed in the crib, playpen, or pack-and-play to nap or sleep. Staff members stated they observed each infant for normal breathing, signs of distress”
Aug 1, 2024: unannounced Full Compliance Review1 violation
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Staff Attendance
“Ensure staff attendance is documented at exact arrival and departure times.”
All 2 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 2025 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 2 violations cited |
| Aug 1, 2024 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 1 violation cited |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Child Care Center.
- Ages served, in Delaware’s words: 6 weeks through 10 years.
- Takes part in: Child Care Food Program (meals reimbursed), Purchase of Care (state-subsidized child care).
- Licence number 71297.
- Capacity: 62 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: No Evidence to Substantiate (3), Substantiated (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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| Dec 4, 2025 | OCCL Standards Complaint: Substantiated | On October 16, 2025, the Office of Child Care Licensing received a complaint regarding lack of supervision and accident/injury reporting procedures. An investigation was conducted on October 22, 2025. This complaint is substantiated for lack of supervision because although staff denied the child was injured while in care, during the visit, a group of children was left alone in a classroom while the staff answered the door. There is no evidence to substantiate the allegation of not following accident/injury reporting procedures because two classroom staff stated Child #1 had no injuries while in care. In addition, Child #1 was signed out at 5:05 p.m. and according to staff and Brightwheel documentation, the parent did not communicate Child #1 had an injury until 13 minutes after Child #1 left the facility. Additional concerns noted during the visit included improper staff-to-child ratio and insufficient staff onsite. |
| Jul 29, 2024 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | On July 1, 2023, the Office of Child Care Licensing received a complaint about not being truthful and not following the facility s termination policy. An investigation was conducted on July 15, 2024. There is no evidence to substantiate the allegation of not being truthful because Brightwheel and what the staff stated was the same information. There is no evidence to substantiate the allegation of not following the termination policy because the parent handbook states if a parent is verbally abusive to a teacher or administrator, it will result in termination of care and termination is at the discretion of the administrator. |
| Jul 1, 2024 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | On June 25, 2024, the Office of Child Care Licensing received a complaint regarding infant feeding. An investigation was conducted on June 26, 2024. There is no evidence to substantiate the complaint because the staff stated they discard formula after the one hour feeding time has been exceeded. The licensing specialist observed bottles in the classroom were clean, properly labeled, documented start times, and no cans of formula or breast milk were expired |
| Dec 1, 2023 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | On November 15, 2023, the Office of Child Care Licensing received a complaint regarding not following the center s termination policy and discrimination. An investigation was conducted on November 28, 2023. There is no evidence to substantiate the complaint because the center s parent handbook states, services may be suspended or terminated at any time for any reason. Also, staff stated the child s enrollment was terminated due to Parent #1 was not providing meal items as requested, Child #1 disturbing nap time, Child #1 attempting to hurt other children unprovoked, and Child #1biting Staff #1. |
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.
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 |
|---|---|
| Dover’s Childrens Village This child care provider | Not given |
| Miracles of Life Child Care | Not given |
| Dover’s Childrens Village Too | Not given |
| Greater Dover Boys and Girls Club | Not given |
| Mattie Rena Duffie | Not given |
| Lakeisheia Booker | Not given |
| Tyra Ceo | Not given |
| De Colores Home Learning Center | Not given |
| Tilithia Allen | Not given |
| Janet M. Denton | Not given |
| Rivers of Learning Academy, LLC | Not given |
| Little Kid’s Swagg Learning Center, LLC Too | Not given |
| Sunshine Home Childcare, LLC | 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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