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Tiny Hands Home Daycare

A family child care home in Burlington, North Carolina 27217

111 James Street, Burlington, North Carolina 27217. (336) 269-7399.

North Carolina’s own record, on ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov

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The short answer

The last 24 months 4 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 mean5
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.
Quality rating
Many states rate child care in a quality rating system that goes past the licensing rules, such as Texas Rising Star or Kentucky All STARS. Taking part is often voluntary, so a program with no rating hasn’t been rated low. Source: Each state’s quality rating system.
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?

9 DCDEE visits in the last three years, the latest on Aug 20, 2026.

4 violations cited in the last three years, 4 of them marked corrected.

Source:

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE), Child Care Facility Search (ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov): licences, DCDEE visits and violations. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Updated daily.

When those violations happened

4 violations in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2025. The last 3 years, to Nov 3, 2026.

4 violations by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 Dec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNov

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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:

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE), Child Care Facility Search (ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov): licences, DCDEE visits and violations. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Updated daily.

Sep 18, 2025: unannounced3 violations
  • Hazardous cleaning supplies and other items that might be poisonous e.g. toxic plants, were not out of reach or in locked storage when children were in care.

    “There was a bottle of Write Out on the kitchen table. The doors to the provider’s bathroom and bedroom were unlocked, there was hazardous items and cleaners accessible to the children.”

    Rule Hazardous cleaning supplies and other items that might be poisonous e.g. toxic plants, were not out of reach or in locked storage when children were in care.. Correction date, as North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE) recorded it: Sep 18, 2025. Correction verified: by a letter from the provider.

  • Operator did not keep records of monthly fire drills, quarterly lockdown or shelter-in-place drills, incident reports, incident logs, accurate attendance, emergency numbers, emergency preparedness and response plan, field trip/transportation permission, pet vaccinations records and/or playground inspections monthly outdoor safety checks for a minimum of one year.

    “The provider did not complete monthly outdoor inspections.”

    Rule Operator did not keep records of monthly fire drills, quarterly lockdown or shelter-in-place drills, incident reports, incident logs, accurate attendance, emergency numbers, emergency preparedness and response plan, field trip/transportation permission, pet vaccinations records and/or playground inspections monthly outdoor safety checks for a minimum of one year.. Correction date, as North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE) recorded it: Sep 18, 2025. Correction verified: by a letter from the provider.

  • Rule violated (DCDEE’s description below)

    “Electrical outlets not in use were not covered.Several outlets in the living room and the kitchen were uncovered.”

    Rule Rule violated (DCDEE’s description below). Correction date, as North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE) recorded it: Sep 18, 2025. Correction verified: by a letter from the provider.

Jan 9, 2025: unannounced1 violation
  • Operator did not complete Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within the required time frame.

    “This was not completed by the provider within the required ninety (90) day timeframe.”

    Rule Operator did not complete Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within the required time frame.. Correction date, as North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE) recorded it: Jan 10, 2025. Correction verified: by a letter from the provider.

All 9 visits on record
Visits on record
DateVisitWhat the record says
Aug 20, 2026Unannounced visitNo violations cited
Jun 4, 2026Unannounced visitNo violations cited
Sep 18, 2025Unannounced visit3 violations cited
Feb 13, 2025Announced visitNo violations cited
Jan 9, 2025Unannounced visit1 violation cited
Dec 4, 2024Unannounced visitNo violations cited
Oct 29, 2024Unannounced visitNo violations cited
Aug 22, 2024Announced visitNo violations cited
Jul 18, 2024Announced visitNo violations cited

Is it licensed?

  • Family Child Care Home, holding a Three Star Family CC Home License since Mar 2, 2025.
  • Licensed for 8 children, ages 0 through 12.
  • Not enrolled in North Carolina’s subsidized child care program.
  • North Carolina’s licence number: 01000676.
  • Restriction: Other - Serves no more than two infants under the age of one.
Source:

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE), Child Care Facility Search (ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov): licences, DCDEE visits and violations. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Updated daily.

Has North Carolina acted against it?

  • DCDEE says it has taken no action against this facility, for its current licence and location, in the last three years.
Source:

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE), Child Care Facility Search (ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov): licences, DCDEE visits and violations. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Updated daily.

Who does the caring?

  • North Carolina’s page gives a staff-to-child ratio policy as the provider reports it, unverified by DCDEE, so it isn’t shown.

Who owns it?

  • Owner, as North Carolina lists it: Blackwell, Clarrese.
Source:

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE), Child Care Facility Search (ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov): licences, DCDEE visits and violations. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Updated daily.

How is it rated?

  • Star Rated License: 3 stars of five.
Source:

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE), Child Care Facility Search (ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov): licences, DCDEE visits and violations. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 78 child care providers in Alamance County, the middle value for violations cited in the last three years was 8; this one had 4.
Source:

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE), Child Care Facility Search (ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov): licences, DCDEE visits and violations. Checked Oct 21, 2026. Updated daily.

12 of the 78 in Alamance County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceViolations cited in the last three years
Tiny Hands Home Daycare This child care provider4
Precious Gift2
Bright Starz Learning Center22
Patty Cakes Home Child Care2
Janice S Scarborough Head Start13
Little Delights Educare6
Shelby’s in Home Day Care3
Positive Day School23
A Mother’s Touch0
Eastlawn Elementary Prek8
Andrews Elementary Prek5
Step By Step12
Excel Christian Academy6

What the record doesn’t say

  • North Carolina doesn’t show a visit summary tied to an open child maltreatment investigation while the case is active, and shows an administrative action only after its 30-day appeal period, without saying what it was.
  • DCDEE’s descriptions of violations are shown in its own words; a description that names or may name a person isn’t shown. Visit summaries, the consultants’ full reports, aren’t read.
  • North Carolina’s page lists the provider’s own features (transport, ratios) as furnished by the provider and unverified by DCDEE, so they aren’t shown.

Sources

If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE). North Carolina’s own record is on ncchildcare.ncdhhs.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 Nov 3, 2026.

From the provider

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Replies

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An example nursing home

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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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