Cruz Kid Care Academy LLC
A licensed child care center in Camden, Delaware 19934
103 South Street, Camden, Delaware 19934. (302) 698-1481.
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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 Apr 21, 2026; Delaware doesn’t list visits that found nothing.
30 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
30 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Apr 2026. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.
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| 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.
Apr 21, 2026: unannounced Full Compliance Review12 violations
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General Qualifications
“Ensure to have staff over 18 have a comprehensive background check and eligibility determined. Staff #2 had a pending OOS for over 45 days.”
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Personnel Files
“Ensure staff files are completed: Staff #1 needs CPR/FA certification, Staff #2 needs OCCL health and safety training, administration of medication certification and comprehensive background check with eligibly determined, Staff #3 needs DEEDS certification, Staff #4 needs CPR/FA certification and a service letter, Staff #5 needs TB test result, Staff #5 needs service letter, Staff #7 needs administration of medication certification, OCCL health and safety certification, Staff #8 needs DEEDS certification, OCCL health and safety training, one additional reference letter”
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Child Files
“Ensure child files are completed: Child #1 needs a health appraisal, immunization with lead blood test result, Child #2 and Child#3 needs immunization.”
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Hazardous Materials
“Updated radon test result is needed for child care space.”
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Indoor Space
“Ensure walls are in good repair. Repair the walls in the purple room and teal room from peeling paint. Send picture.”
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Outdoor Area
“Ensure fall zones on the outdoor play area have enough mulch.”
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Sleeping Accommodations and Safe Sleep Environments
“Ensure prohibited items are not in the cribs with infants. Sound machines were observed in or on the crib with loop strings and three infants were observed in the crib with bibs while sleeping. (This was corrected when staff removed the sound machine from the crib and the bibs from the infants.”
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Equipment
“Ensure enough equipment are available for children in each classroom. In the toddler 2 classroom five books were observed on the shelf in the classroom, later the shelf had more books, then the books were reduced. Send photo”
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Administration of Medication
“Ensure all medication administration record are completed for over the counter and prescribed medications.”
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Feeding of Infants
“Updated monthly infant feeding schedule for all infants in care.”
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Lesson Plans
“Ensure the lesson plans include social emotional. Provide lesson plans that include the social emotional.”
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License Renewal
“Ensure to submit renewal application 60 days before license expiration. (This was corrected when licensee provided a renewal application during the visit)”
Apr 9, 2025: unannounced Full Compliance Review13 violations
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Personnel Files
The inspectors’ words, 265 words
“Complete files are needed for the following staff: Staff #1 needs an annual safe sleep, annual abuse and neglect, OCCL health and safety training, health appraisal with TB, release of employment and adult abuse check Staff #2 needs orientation, adult abuse check and OCCL health and safety training Staff #3 needs annual abuse and neglect, orientation, OCCL health and safety training, adult abuse check, health appraisal with TB and release of employment Staff #4 needs a CPR/FA certification, orientation, administration of medication certification, OCCL health and safety training, job description, adult abuse check and CHU letter of eligibility. Staff #5 needs CPR/FA certification, DEED certification, orientation, one additional reference letter CHU letter of eligibility, adult abuse check, health appraisal with TB, release of employment Staff #6 needs CPR/FA certification, administration of medication certification, orientation, OCCL health and safety training, two reference letters, a CHU letter of eligibility, release of employment, adult abuse check, service letter Staff #7 needs CPR/FA certification, administration of medication certification, OCCL health and safety training, job description, two reference letters, health appraisal with TB, release of employment Staff #8 needs CPR/FA certification, administration of medication certification, OCCL health and safety training, job description, two reference letters, health appraisal with TB, service letter Staff #9 needs annual training hours Staff #10 needs Two more hours of annual training hours Staff #11 needs CPR/FA certification, administration of medication certification, OCCL health and safety training, two reference letters, health appraisal with TB, service letter Staff #12 needs CPR/FA certification, CHU letter of eligibility Staff #13 needs CHU letter of eligibility, administration of medication certification”
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Staff Attendance
“Ensure staff’s exact departure is documented on the attendance record. In the PS/PK classroom staff did not sign out of the classroom and were not present in the classroom. Provide the attendance record for the classroom from 4-10-2025 to 4-17-2025”
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Child Files
“Ensure child files are completed: Child #1 needs a health appraisal with immunization Child #2 needs blood lead test result Child #6 needs health appraisal with immunization Child #8 needs, blood lead test result Child #10 needs health appraisal with immunization and blood lead test result Child#13 needs health appraisal with immunization”
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Documenting Children’s Progress
“Ensure an annual developmental plan is available for each child in care.”
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Children’s Attendance
“Ensure to document the exact arrival of children in care. In the Three- year old classroom one child was not sign in. Provide OCCL with attendance for the classroom from 4-10 to 4-17.”
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Hazardous Materials
“ensure all containers with chemicals are labeled with contents in the PS/ PK room has a zep bottle and two small blue bottles with liquid with no labels. Provide picture to OCCL with bottles labeled.”
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Indoor Space
“Ensure interior spaced designated for children in care use is available to children when the center is in operation. The school age classroom is currently being used as storage , the old infatn classroom is used for staorage and the toddler ones is being used for indoor play area. Set each room to meet the regulations and send pictures of the classsroom set up. Provider can also sent document to remove them as spaced used for children and reduce capacity.”
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Outdoor Area
“Ensure gates are self-latching, gate behind the building is not self latching.. Ensure the fall zones have proper depth to absorb falls. Send video and picture.”
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Sleeping Accommodations and Safe Sleep Environments
“Ensure rest equipment doe not touch another child’s rest equipment.”
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Administration of Medication
“Ensure to follow all administration of medication procedures. Ensure all medications are accompanied with the MAR. Ensure that medication that is no longer in used are returned to the parents. Ensuree all medication are labeled and in orgianl box. Ensure to disposed of all expired medication. Provide a written statement to OCCL about the medications observed in each classroom.”
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Feeding of Infants
“Ensure monthly feeding forms are updated for infants in care.”
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Activity Schedule
“Ensure daily schedule is followed allowing outdoor gross motor play. During the visit staff was observed taking the children to an indoor classroom instead of outside for outdoor play. Other classroom did not follow the schedule by taking the children outside for outdoorplay time.”
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License Renewal
“Ensure to submit the renewal application for the child care center 60 days before license expiration”
Apr 29, 2024: unannounced Full Compliance Review5 violations
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Ratios, Group Size, and Supervision
“Ensure staff to child ratio is maintained at all times. In the one year old classroom, LS observed 14 one- two year old children were observed in the classroom. The youngest was one year old. This was corrected when staff remove two of the children from the classroom.”
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Personnel Files
“Complete file are needed for the following staff members: Staff #1 a comprehensive background check since staff have turned 18 on 4-1-2024. Staff #2 needs OCCL health and safety training Staff #3 needs OCCL health and safety training”
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Staff Attendance
“Ensure staff sign in and out of the classroom. In the one year old classroom a staff AP did not sign out the classroom.”
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Child Files
“Complete child file is needed: Child #14 needs a blood lead screening result.”
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Children’s Attendance
“Ensure children are sign in and out of a classroom. In the one year old classroom a child was not sign out of the classroom when he went to another classroom.”
All 3 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
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| Apr 21, 2026 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 12 violations cited |
| Apr 9, 2025 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 13 violations cited |
| Apr 29, 2024 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 5 violations cited |
Is it licensed?
- Licensed Child Care Center.
- Ages served, in Delaware’s words: 6 weeks through 12 years.
- Takes part in: Child Care Food Program (meals reimbursed), Purchase of Care (state-subsidized child care).
- Licence number 823977.
- Capacity: 97 children.
Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities. Released Oct 23, 2026. Updated daily.
Has Delaware acted against it?
- 1 complaint investigation in the last three years. Results, in Delaware’s words: No Evidence to Substantiate (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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| Mar 8, 2024 | OCCL Standards Complaint: No Evidence to Substantiate | On February 2, 2024, a complaint was called into the Child Abuse and Neglect Report line and not accepted for investigation by the Institutional Abuse Unit (IAU). The Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received the complaint on February 2, 2024, and accepted it for investigation regarding improper discipline. An investigation was conducted on February 8, 2024. There is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for improper discipline because Staff #1 denied the allegation and Staff #2 stated Staff #1 did not yank Child #1 s arm. Staff #2 stated Staff #1 was sitting Child #1 down gently |
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 |
|---|---|
| Cruz Kid Care Academy LLC This child care provider | Not given |
| Shell’s Early Learning Center - Camden | Not given |
| St. Paul’s Nature Preschool | Not given |
| The Next Step Learning Center at Camden | Not given |
| Shell’s Early Learning Camden Center | Not given |
| Sandra Layte | Not given |
| Gwendolyn Rash | Not given |
| Annette D Radcliffe | Not given |
| Mary Skodzinski | Not given |
| Whatcoat Christian Preschool | Not given |
| Angela Smith | Not given |
| The Children’s Place II, Inc. | Not given |
| Boys & Girls Club @ W. B. Simpson Elementary School | 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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