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BEACH BUDDIES SCHOOL AGE PROGRAM

Child care center · 31174 LEARNING LN, Lewes, DE 19958 · License 1058557

28Compliance score
Poor

Capacity 95. School-Age Accepts subsidy

Violation history (12)

SeverityDateStandard / narrativeCorrected
?Mon Feb 16 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 49T - Indoor Space
Ensure indoor space are in good repair. Repair hole in the celling in room 28. Submit pictures of the repair
Yes
?Mon Feb 16 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 45T - Hazardous Materials
Ensure hazardous materials are non-accessible to children in care. Locked the cabinet in the boy's bathroom that contains hazardous materials. (This was corrected when the cabinet was locked)
Yes
?Mon Feb 16 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 30T - Personnel Files
Ensure staff files are completed, Staff #1 and Staff #2 needs job descriptions, Staff #2 needs an orientation and a two reference letters.
Yes
?Mon Feb 16 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 48T - Heating and Cooling
Ensure air vents are cleaned and dusted in all classrooms. Submit photograph of dusted removed from vents.
Yes
?Mon Feb 16 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 8T - License Renewal
Ensure to submit the renewal application 60 days before license expiration. (This was corrected when the application was submitted during the visit)
Yes
?Mon Feb 03 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 49T - Indoor Space
Ensure classrooms walls, surface and floors are clean and in good repair. Arrange or restore the Pink Classroom back to operation according to the Delacare regulation, Blue Classroom 1st on left windows need repainting, baseboard is loose, clean the vent from dust, Blue Classroom 2nd on Left paint is peeling, baseboard is loose. Remove tape residue from the walls. Send picture or video.
Yes
?Mon Feb 03 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 30T - Personnel Files
Ensure staff files are completed. Staff #1 needs DEEDS certification on file, OCCL health and safety training, Staff #2 needs four reference letters, a release of employment with service letter attempts, Staff#3 needs a DEED certification, CPR/FA certification, a comprehensive background check with eligiblity determined, Staff#4 needs letter of eligiblity, Staff #5 needs orientation, service letter, Staff #6 needs a letter of eligiblity, adult abuse check. Send copy to OCCL.
Yes
?Mon Feb 03 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 38T - Parents Right to Know
Ensure parent right to know is completed. Send a copy to OCCL.
Yes
?Mon Feb 19 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 40T - Child Files
A complete child file is needed for Child #7 and Child #10. Parent right to know and screen time permission is needed.
Yes
?Mon Feb 19 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 30T - Personnel Files
Complete files are needed for Staff #1 to Staff 12. Staff #1 needs annual training hours, annual abuse and neglect, professional development and an updated comprehensive background check. Staff #2 needs a porefessional plan, a job description, adult abuse check, a health appraisal, release of employment and a service letter. Staff #3 to Staff #9 needs annual training hours, annual abuse and neglect, professional development plan. Staff #10 needs a job description, adult abuse check, release of employment and a service letter. Staff #12 needs a complete file.
Yes
?Mon Feb 19 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 27T - Ratios, Group Size, and Supervision
Ensure direct supervision of all children in care. Upon arrival at the center four children was observed leaving the Terrific Tigers, Two children entered the Lightning Lion, no staff was in the lobby or the Lion room. Two children entered the Lucky Lynx with no staff. This was corrected when a staff brought the children back to the Tiger classroom. Later, another child left the Tiger room and entered the lobby to go to a classroom with no staff present.. Another time a staff allow children to go back and forth from the Lynx room and the Tiger room. A conversation was held with staff about supervising children in the door threshold was not allowed.
Yes
?Mon Feb 13 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 40T - Child Files
A Complete file is needed for all children in care. Child #1 needs a health appraisal and Child #16 needs a signed parent right to know, screen time permission are needed for Child #16
Yes

Severity 5 = most serious. Source: official state record.

Inspections (4)

4 inspection record(s) on file from DE-OCCL.

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