Boys & Girls Club @ Nellie Stokes Elementary School
A licensed child care center in Dover, Delaware 19904
3874 Upper King Road, Dover, Delaware 19904. (302) 757-5414.
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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 3, 2026; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.
19 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
19 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Mar 2026. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
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| 2024 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 2025 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 2026 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct |
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 3, 2026: unannounced Full Compliance Review7 violations
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Ratios, Group Size, and Supervision
“Ensure children are not left alone with unqualified staff. Children were observed being escorted to and from the toilet rooms by an unqualified staff person. Immediately prohibit Staff #3 from being alone with children and submit information to DEEDs for his/her qualification.”
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Personnel Files
“Ensure staff files are complete. One staff person needs Administration of Medication training. One staff person needs DEEDs qualification, CPR/FA, OCCL’s Health and Safety Training, and adult health appraisal with TB screening.”
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Parents Right to Know
“Ensure Parent’s Right to Know Log is available at the center and reviewed with and signed by each newly enrolled family. Obtain signatures.”
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Child Files
“Ensure child files are complete. One child needs emergency transportation permission. Two children need hours and days of attending.”
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Indoor Space
“Ensure children have individual storage space for their belongings that is labeled with their name. Label baskets.”
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Area for Children Who Become Ill
“Ensure space for children who may become ill is equipped properly and includes clean bedding. Acquire bottom covering for mat.”
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Emergency Planning
“Ensure evacuation drills and fire prevention inspections are completed monthly and posted for review. Complete and post for March. Ensure emergency plan is up-to-date with current staff’s responsibilities listed. Update plan.”
Mar 19, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review5 violations
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Insurance Coverage
“Ensure liability insurance is current and posted. Obtain certificate and post.”
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Ratios, Group Size, and Supervision
“Ensure supervision is provided at all times. According to a staff person supervising children in the gymnasium, she exits the room to open doors for parents, leaving the children unsupervised. This was corrected at the visit when this Licensing Specialist addressed it with all staff and they began taking groups of children with them to answer the door. An additional staff person also arrived to answer the door.”
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Personnel Files
The inspectors’ words, 115 words
“Ensure staff files are complete. One staff person needs an annual review of child abuse and neglect reporting. One staff person needs CPR/FA training, OCCL’s Health and Safety Training for Child Care Professionals, a job description, one more documented attempt to obtain Service Letters, and two more references if no Service Letters are received. One staff person needs a signed professional development plan, a job description, two documented attempts to obtain Service Letters, and two more references if no Service Letters are received. One staff person needs to complete OCCL’s Health and Safety Training for Child Care Professionals, a job description, and more documented attempt to obtain a Service Letter from most recent former employer.”
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License Renewal
“Ensure renewal application is submitted at least 60 days prior to license expiration. Complete renewal application”
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Child Care Activities
“Ensure a daily or monthly activity plan is posted in child care space. Develop plan and post it.”
Mar 7, 2024: unannounced Full Compliance Review7 violations
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Insurance Coverage
“Ensure current insurance documentation is submitted.”
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Ratios, Group Size, and Supervision
“Ensure correct staff-to-child ratios are maintained at all times. LS Brey observed a staff person exit the room to answer the door when a parent arrived, leaving the room over ratio. Discussed making arrangements for staff to take groups of children to the bathroom and to answer the door.”
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Personnel Files
“Ensure staff files are complete. Staff #2 needs to complete First Aid training, one more reference, a Health Appraisal with TB screening. Staff files must be on-site at all times.”
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Child Files
“Ensure child files are complete. Child #4, #5, #7, and #9 need a date of enrollment. Child #7 needs a completed Emergency Card Info. Child #1 and #3 need a Health Appraisal, immunizations, and blood lead level test results. Child #7 needs a Health Appraisal and blood lead level test result. Ensure child files are on-site at all times.”
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Emergency Planning
“Ensure fire drill logs and inspections are completed monthly and documented. The last drill and inspection documented was October, 2023.”
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Staffing
“Ensure a staff qualified as at least a Site Assistant is trained in day-to-day operations. When these staff are on-site, ensure their file is also available on-site.”
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Child Care Activities
“Post monthly activity plan in a visible area.”
All 3 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 2026 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 7 violations cited |
| Mar 19, 2025 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 5 violations cited |
| Mar 7, 2024 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 7 violations cited |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Child Care Center.
- Ages served, in Delaware’s words: 6 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.
- Licence number 744173.
- Capacity: 81 children.
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.
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?
- 2024: 2 facility injuries. 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 @ Nellie Stokes Elementary School 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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