STEPS Head Start & Childcare-Longwood
A child day center in Farmville, Virginia 23901
821 Longwood Avenue, Farmville, Virginia 23901. (434) 315-5909.
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The short answer
- 7 deficiencies in the last three years
- Jul 302026 the latest visit on record
- 40 children, its licensed capacity
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?
10 inspections on record, the latest on Jul 30, 2026.
7 violations cited in the last three years.
Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each inspection’s page, with its violations. Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.
When those deficiencies happened
7 deficiencies in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Jul 2026. The last 3 years, to Nov 2, 2026.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
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| 2023 | Dec | |||||||||||
| 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 | Nov |
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Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.
Each deficiency, in its source’s words
Grouped by visit, newest first, with the level its source gave it.
Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each inspection’s page, with its violations. Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.
Jul 30, 2026: subsidy health and safety inspection2 deficiencies
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The center shall provide to the licensing representative an annual fire inspection report from the appropriate fire official having jurisdiction.
“The fire inspection is overdue by approximately a month.”
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Annual approval from the health department shall be provided.
“The annual health inspection was overdue by over a month.”
Feb 25, 2026: subsidy health and safety inspection1 deficiency
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The center is required to obtain background checks from any state in which the individual has resided in the preceding five years.
“The center did not request a criminal history check or sex offender from a state for Staff 4, who has been employed for 5 months”
Jan 9, 2025: subsidy health and safety inspection2 deficiencies
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8VAC20-790-600-D-1
“All staff who work directly with children shall have within 90 days of the date of employment current certification in CPR appropriate to the ages of children in care. Staff #1, employed for nine years, did not have current CPR training.”
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8VAC20-790-600-D-2
“All staff who work directly with children shall have within 90 days of the date of employment current certification in first aid appropriate to the ages of children in care. Staff #1, employed 9 years, did not have current first aid.”
Jan 9, 2025: inspection1 deficiency
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8VAC20-780-150-B
“Each report shall include the date of the physical examination and dates immunizations were received and shall be signed by a physician. Child #2, who had been attending for four months, did not have a signed immunization record on file.”
Sep 10, 2024: inspection1 deficiency
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Based on observation, staff record review, and interviews, the center failed to ensure that each grouping of children had a qualified program lead.
“Evidence: 1.Staff #3 and 4 were observed working in the 2-year-old room as program leaders on the day of the inspection. Review of Staff # 3 record, there was no documentation of the educational requirements and the 6-month experience for a program leader position. Staff # 4 had the required educational requirements for the position but did not have the 6-month required experience.”
All 10 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 2026 | Inspection | No violations cited |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Subsidy health and safety inspection | 2 violations cited |
| Feb 25, 2026 | Subsidy health and safety inspection | 1 violation cited |
| Sep 17, 2025 | Subsidy health and safety inspection | No violations cited |
| Aug 21, 2025 | Inspection | No violations cited |
| Mar 13, 2025 | Complaint inspection | No violations cited |
| Jan 9, 2025 | Subsidy health and safety inspection | 2 violations cited |
| Jan 9, 2025 | Inspection | 1 violation cited |
| Sep 10, 2024 | Inspection | 1 violation cited |
| Jul 3, 2024 | Inspection | No violations cited |
Is it licensed?
- Child Day Center: Two Year license, expires Jan 10, 2027.
- A current subsidy provider.
- Ages: 1 month - 5 years 11 months.
- Capacity: 40 children.
Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each facility’s page. Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.
Has Virginia acted against it?
- 1 complaint inspection on record.
- No complaint allegations published with findings.
Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each inspection’s page, with its violations and Search for Child Day Care: each complaint’s page, with its allegations and findings. Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.
Who does the caring?
- Virginia doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual providers. State rules set staff-to-child ratios by age.
Who owns it?
- Virginia’s search doesn’t list owners.
How is it rated?
- Virginia’s search doesn’t show a quality rating.
How does it compare nearby?
- Among 9 child care providers in Prince Edward County, the middle value for violations cited in the last three years was 7; this one had 7.
Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each inspection’s page, with its violations. Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.
| Place | Violations cited in the last three years |
|---|---|
| Fuqua School | 7 |
| Farmville Baptist Church | 2 |
| STEPS Head Start & Childcare- Griffin | 9 |
| Creative Learning Center of Farmville | 16 |
| Kathleen Eisele | 2 |
| STEPS Head Start & Childcare | 8 |
| STEPS Head Start & Childcare-Longwood This child care provider | 7 |
| Southside Virginia Family YMCA Out of School Time Program- PECPS | 0 |
| Andy Taylor Center for Early Childhood Development | 49 |
What the record doesn’t say
- Virginia doesn’t grade how serious a violation is, so no severity is shown.
- Virginia publishes a complaint’s allegations and findings only when its inspection found a violation and the records are linked.
- Virginia doesn’t publish staffing levels or owners for individual providers.
- A plan of correction sent late, or not at all, isn’t online: Virginia says to ask the inspector.
- Virginia’s pages show about the last five years of inspections; for older ones, Virginia says to contact the licensing inspector.
- Virginia says this information may not be accurate, up to date or complete, and shouldn’t be the only source in choosing care.
Sources
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Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each facility’s page.
Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly. No open licence; Virginia allows non-commercial use, so Care Ledger shows it free.
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Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each inspection’s page, with its violations.
Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly. No open licence; Virginia allows non-commercial use, so Care Ledger shows it free.
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Virginia Department of Education, Search for Child Day Care: each complaint’s page, with its allegations and findings.
Checked Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly. No open licence; Virginia allows non-commercial use, so Care Ledger shows it free.
If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: Virginia Department of Education. Virginia’s own record is on legacy.dss.virginia.gov. If Hearth Record copied something wrongly, it will fix it and log the correction publicly, with its date: how corrections work.
This copy of the record was made on Nov 2, 2026.
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