Child care in Dover
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111 child care providers in Dover, Delaware.
From the Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing: Child Care Licensing Complaint Reviews, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities and Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information. The record lists 1,235 child care providers in Delaware.
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What the words on these cards mean9
- 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.
- The state’s most serious level
- Each state grades findings on its own scale and in its own words, so the record counts a state’s findings at that state’s top level. Two states’ top levels aren’t the same thing, so the counts aren’t compared across states. Source: How this site reads each state’s scale.
- Not read
- The file this site reads doesn’t carry what inspectors found, so nothing is counted here. It doesn’t mean the place has a clean record: the state’s own site may have its reports. Source: How this site reads each source.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- None on record
- The source lists nothing of this kind for the place, over the years its file covers. That is what the record holds, not proof that nothing ever happened. Source: How this site reads each source.
- Not published
- The source has no such field for this place. It isn’t a zero, and it isn’t a clean record. Source: How this site reads each source.
The list
- Licensed family child care Theresa Rash Dover, Delaware 19901 Sep 42024the latest visit on record9children, its licensed capacity TypeLicensed Family Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionSep 4, 2024Quality ratingNot published 1 violation in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Sep 2024.
- Licensed family child care Theresa Ruff Dover, Delaware 19901 Jan 302026the latest visit on record9children, its licensed capacity TypeLicensed Family Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionJan 30, 2026Quality ratingNot published 7 violations in 4 months of the last 36. Last cited Jan 2026.
- Licensed family child care Tiffani Banfield Dover, Delaware 19904 Oct 212025the latest visit on record8children, its licensed capacity TypeLicensed Family Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionOct 21, 2025Quality ratingNot published 4 violations in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2025.
- Licensed family child care Tilithia Allen Dover, Delaware 19904 No countDelaware’s list shows only visits that found violations6children, its licensed capacity TypeLicensed Family Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot counted: Delaware lists only visits that found violationsMost seriousNot counted: Delaware lists only visits that found violationsLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingNot published
- Licensed family child care Tonya Haynes Dover, Delaware 19901 No countDelaware’s list shows only visits that found violations6children, its licensed capacity TypeLicensed Family Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot counted: Delaware lists only visits that found violationsMost seriousNot counted: Delaware lists only visits that found violationsLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingNot published
- Licensed family child care Tyra Ceo Dover, Delaware 19904 No countDelaware’s list shows only visits that found violations9children, its licensed capacity TypeLicensed Family Child CareFindings, 3 yearsNot counted: Delaware lists only visits that found violationsMost seriousNot counted: Delaware lists only visits that found violationsLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingNot published
- Licensed child care center Wesley Preschool and Play Care Dover, Delaware 19901 Feb 252026the latest visit on record132children, its licensed capacity TypeLicensed Child Care CenterFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionFeb 25, 2026Quality ratingNot published 10 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Feb 2026.
- Licensed child care center YMCA of Delaware/Booker T. Washington Dover, Delaware 19904 No countDelaware’s list shows only visits that found violations68children, its licensed capacity TypeLicensed Child Care CenterFindings, 3 yearsNot counted: Delaware lists only visits that found violationsMost seriousNot counted: Delaware lists only visits that found violationsLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingNot published
- Licensed child care center YMCA of Delaware/Dover YMCA Dover, Delaware 19901 Nov 52025the latest visit on record21children, its licensed capacity TypeLicensed Child Care CenterFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionNov 5, 2025Quality ratingNot published 5 violations in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Nov 2025.
- Licensed child care center YMCA of Delaware/East Dover Early Childhood Center Dover, Delaware 19901 No countDelaware’s list shows only visits that found violations99children, its licensed capacity TypeLicensed Child Care CenterFindings, 3 yearsNot counted: Delaware lists only visits that found violationsMost seriousNot counted: Delaware lists only visits that found violationsLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingNot published
- Licensed child care center YMCA of Delaware/Fairview Dover, Delaware 19904 Oct 22024the latest visit on record40children, its licensed capacity TypeLicensed Child Care CenterFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionOct 2, 2024Quality ratingNot published 2 violations in 1 month of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2024.
- Licensed child care center YMCA of Delaware/North Dover Dover, Delaware 19904 Enforcement: Suspended (Delaware) No countDelaware’s list shows only visits that found violations50children, its licensed capacity TypeLicensed Child Care CenterFindings, 3 yearsNot counted: Delaware lists only visits that found violationsMost seriousNot counted: Delaware lists only visits that found violationsLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingNot published
- Licensed child care center YMCA of Delaware/South Dover Dover, Delaware 19901 Dec 102025the latest visit on record60children, its licensed capacity TypeLicensed Child Care CenterFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionDec 10, 2025Quality ratingNot published 9 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Dec 2025.
- Licensed child care center YMCA of Delaware/William Henry Dover, Delaware 19904 No countDelaware’s list shows only visits that found violations151children, its licensed capacity TypeLicensed Child Care CenterFindings, 3 yearsNot counted: Delaware lists only visits that found violationsMost seriousNot counted: Delaware lists only visits that found violationsLast inspectionNot publishedQuality ratingNot published
- Licensed child care center Youth Connections-Towne Point Dover, Delaware 19901 Oct 82026the latest visit on record147children, its licensed capacity TypeLicensed Child Care CenterFindings, 3 yearsNot publishedMost seriousNot publishedLast inspectionOct 8, 2026Quality ratingNot published 9 violations in 3 months of the last 36. Last cited Oct 2026.
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Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing, Child Care Licensing Complaint Reviews, Licensed Child Care Providers and Facilities and Child Care Licensing Compliance Review Information. Released Nov 4, 2026. Updated daily.
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