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LITTLE DESTINY II

Child care center · 2516 W 4TH ST, Wilmington, DE 19805 · License 1275722

0Compliance score
Poor

Capacity 62. Infant through School-Age Accepts subsidy

Violation history (45)

SeverityDateStandard / narrativeCorrected
?Thu Mar 05 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 30U - Personnel Files
Ensure staff files are complete. Staff #1 needs orientation, release of employment and service letters (or proof of 2 attempts) Staff #2 needs 12 clock hours of training, and adult health appraisal. Send documentation to OCCL by April 10, 2026.
Yes
?Thu Mar 05 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 40U - Child Files
Ensure child files are complete. Child #2 needs blood lead results. Send documentation to OCCL by April 10, 2026.
Yes
?Wed Mar 05 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 74U - Lesson Plans
Ensure lesson plans are complete. Lesson plan needs to have more details. What the children will do. Send one week lesson plan for each classroom to OCCL by April 11, 2025.
Yes
?Wed Mar 05 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 50U - Kitchen and Food Preparation
Ensure freezer thermometer reads 0 degrees or less. Send picture of thermometer to OCCL by April 11, 2025.
Yes
?Wed Mar 05 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 40U - Child Files
Ensure child files are compete. Updated health appraisal is needed for Child #6, #8,and #12. Updated immunization record is needed for Child #8 and #12. Blood Lead Screening is needed for Child #2 and #12 Developmental plan is needed for Child #8 Send documentation to OCCL by April 11, 2025.
Yes
?Wed Mar 05 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 30U - Personnel Files
Ensure staff files are complete. Send Updated CPR and First Aid cards for Staff #1, #2, #3, and #4. Staff attended training on the evening of 3/4/2025 2 hours of training in Health and safety for Staff #1, #2, #3, and #4. Send documentation to OCCL by April 11, 2025.
Yes
?Wed Mar 06 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 41U - Child Health Appraisal
Ensure child files are complete and include health appraisal, immunization records and blood lead screening and results. Child #1 needs Health appraisal, immunization record, and blood lead screening and results. Child #8 needs a blood lead screening and results.
Yes
?Wed Mar 06 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 16U - Insurance Coverage
Ensure insurance documentation is up to date. Current insurance expires 3/10/2024.
Yes
?Wed Mar 06 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 30U - Personnel Files
Ensure staff files are complete. Staff #1 needs a PD plan, 7-hour OCCL health and safety training, employee decoration, drug and alcohol statement, health appraisal with TB results, and three training hours. Staff #2 needs three more training hours. Staff #3 needs 18 training hours including 1 hour in health and safety and Current 1st aid/CPR.
Yes
?Wed Mar 06 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 8U - License Renewal
Submit a complete application at least 60 days before license expiration.
Yes
?Wed Mar 06 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 65U - First Aid Kits
Ensure first aid kits are available at all times. Keep one at the center and take one for travel. (walking to the park) Send a picture of both first aid kits.
Yes
?Wed Mar 06 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 63U - Administration of Medication
Ensure medication is not expired. Picture of new Epi-pen and updated medication authorization record (MAR)
Yes
?Wed Mar 06 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 56U - Sleeping Accommodations and Safe Sleep Environments
Ensure cribs are 18 inches apart. Send picture to OCCL by 4/12/2024
Yes
?Wed Mar 06 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 50U - Kitchen and Food Preparation
Ensure the refrigerator is 41 degrees or below and the Freezer is 0 degrees or below. Send a picture of thermometers with regulation temperatures.
Yes
?Thu Mar 02 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 40U - Child Files
Ensure child files are complete. Blood lead screening results are needed for Child #2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 11. Hours of attendance, days of attendance, and enrollment date are needed for Child #10 and 11. Infant feeding logs are needed for all infants. Health appraisal and child immunization for Child #13. Child developmental plans are needed for Child #9. Parents right to know and screen time permissions are needed for Child #6.
Yes
?Thu Mar 02 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 72U - Feeding of Infants
Ensure daily infant log includes diaper changes, feeding times, and sleep checks. Submit the daily log for each infant to OCCL for the week of March 6-10.
Yes
?Thu Mar 02 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 61U - Diapering and Soiled Clothing
Ensure a foot-activated diaper pail is within arms reach. This was corrected at the visit.
Yes
?Thu Mar 02 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 56U - Sleeping Accommodations and Safe Sleep Environments
Ensure there are no objects in the crib with infants. A child was observed with a bib on while sleeping. This was corrected at the visit.
Yes
?Thu Mar 02 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 30U - Personnel Files
Ensure staff files are complete. Fingerprint receipts are required for Staff #1,2,3,4, and 7. A new eligibility letter is needed for Staff #1.
Yes
?Wed Sep 21 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 30U - Personnel Files
Ensure staff files are complete. Staff #1 does not have employment history on their release of employment paper. Send staff items to OCCL by October 15th, 2022.
Yes
?Wed Sep 21 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 40U - Child Files
Ensure child files are complete. Child #2, 3, and 7 need a blood lead screening and results. Child #11 needs their date of enrollment . Child #12 needs an updated health appraisal. Children 1 through 13 need a developmental plan. Send blood lead results, date of enrollment, health appraisal, and development plan with goals for children 1 through 13 by October 15th, 2022.
Yes
?Wed Sep 21 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 61U - Diapering and Soiled Clothing
Ensure diaper changing surfaces are non-porous. Replace diaper changing surface in the Pre-K bathroom. Also, ensure a foot activated trash can is located within five feet of the diaper changing area. Send documentation to OCCL.
Yes
?Wed Sep 21 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 76U - Activity Schedule
Ensure the daily schedule is posted in each classroom. Post schedule in the infant classroom. Send documentation to OCCL.
Yes
?Wed May 25 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 26U - Staffing
Ensure center has a teacher trained in day-to-day operations when Administration is not present with documentation in the staff file. Ensure center administrator is present at least 60% of the center's hours of operation and functioning in that role. At the time of the visit, LS Budin, Flowers, and Hackett were not provided the documentation of the administrators presence. Also, staff stated Ms. Brown only works at the center in the afternoons less than five days a week. Send administrators documented sign in and out of the center forms to OCCL.
Yes
?Wed May 25 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 78U - Interactions with Infants
Ensure infants have limited time in confining equipment. Several infants were observed in bouncy seats for over thirty minutes. Ensure infants are able to move freely after being removed from "bouncy" seats. Children were observed in "boppies" after being removed from "bouncy" seats. This was corrected at the visit.
Yes
?Wed May 25 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 36U - Staff Attendance
Ensure staff attendance is accurate. At the time of the visit, one staff member did not sign out of the two's room and one staff member did not sign in. Also, two staff members did not sign out of the before care room. Send one week of attendance for all classrooms to OCCL.
Yes
?Wed May 25 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 56U - Sleeping Accommodations and Safe Sleep Environments
Ensure safe sleep practices are done at all times. At the time of visit, two infants were observed sleeping in "bouncy" chairs. This was corrected at the visit. Also, four infants were observed in the younger infant classroom with two cribs present. Both cribs were not labeled, one crib had plastic covering on it, and there was no sheet cover. LS Flowers called the administrator- Sharra Brown. Ms. Brown stated she will either bring a pack-and-play to the center at noon (12:30), or have a staff member leave to purchase one.
Yes
?Wed May 25 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 43U - Children's Attendance
Ensure children's attendance is accurate. At the visit, six children were not signed out of the before classroom. Send one week of attendance for all classrooms to OCCL.
Yes
?Mon Mar 21 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 27U - Ratios, Group Size, and Supervision
Ensure proper staff-to-child ratio and maximum group size is maintained. At the time of the visit, 13 one and two-year-olds were observed in one classroom.
Yes
?Mon Mar 21 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 28U - General Qualifications
Ensure staff are fingerprinted before the start of employment. A staff member was observed working in the infant room before being fingerprinted.
Yes
?Wed Mar 09 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 27U - Ratios, Group Size, and Supervision
Ensure direct supervision is provided at all times. At the time of the visit, one child was left unattended in a classroom while the classroom staff left the classroom to make breakfast. At the time of the visit a staff member left the infant classroom and was in the kitchen preparing breakfast which left the infant classroom out of ratio when one staff member was left alone with seven infants. Also, a staff member was observed leaving the infant classroom to open the front door which left the classroom out of ratio with one staff member left alone with seven infants.
Yes
?Wed Mar 09 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 71U - Meals and Snacks
Ensure meals and snacks meet the required serving sizes and drinks are also served with meals. At the time of the visit, the toddler and pre-school classes did not serve drinks with breakfast and both classes were served the same portion sizes.
Yes
?Wed Mar 09 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 43U - Children's Attendance
Ensure children's attendance is accurately documented. At the time of the visit, one child was not signed into the preschool classroom.
Yes
?Wed Mar 09 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 36U - Staff Attendance
Ensure staff attendance is accurately documented. At the time of the visit, one staff member was not signed out of the pre-school classroom and one staff member was not signed into the room. In the infant classroom one staff member did not sign out of the classroom when she observed leaving the classroom and did not sign back in upon return. In the toddler classroom, one staff member was not signed into the classroom.
Yes
?Wed Mar 09 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 26U - Staffing
The Staff member working in the pre-school classroom left the classroom with a group of children to make breakfast in the kitchen. Ensure staff members who are charged with caring for children are not given other duties. At the time of the visit the center did not maintain the one-to-four ratio of Early Childhood Teachers to other staff.
Yes
?Fri Mar 04 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 26U - Staffing
Ensure center maintains a one to four ratio of Early Childhood Teachers to other staff. Ensure the center Administrator is present at least 60% of the center's hours of operation.
Yes
?Fri Mar 04 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 30U - Personnel Files
Ensure staff files are complete. Department of Education qualifications are needed for eight staff members. Professional development plans with goals are needed for ten staff members. An annual review of safe sleep is needed for four staff members. An annual review of abuse and neglect is needed for three staff members. An orientation is needed for one staff member. An eligibility letter is needed for one staff member. Service letters are needed for two staff members.
Yes
?Fri Mar 04 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 28U - General Qualifications
Ensure proper staff-to-child ratios are maintained at all times. At the time of the visit, two unqualified staff were left alone with infants. Also, an unqualified staff member was observed alone with children while assisting them to the bathroom.
Yes
?Fri Mar 04 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 74U - Lesson Plans
Submit lesson plans for the infant classroom which contains all required elements.
Yes
?Fri Mar 04 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 66U - Emergency Planning
Submit March and April's monthly fire drill. At the time of the visit, discrepancies were observed on dates of fire drill logs including some logs which were dated as having been conducted on weekends when the center is not in operation.
Yes
?Fri Mar 04 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 61U - Diapering and Soiled Clothing
Post diaper changing procedure in the infant diaper changing area.
Yes
?Fri Mar 04 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 56U - Sleeping Accommodations and Safe Sleep Environments
Ensure cribs are placed on the lowest setting.
Yes
?Fri Mar 04 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 49U - Indoor Space
Repair floor in toddler classroom. Also repair carpet in hallway area. Thoroughly clean floors and lower wall in the toddler bathroom.
Yes
?Fri Mar 04 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 40U - Child Files
Ensure children's files are complete. Days and hours of attendance are needed for eight children. Date of enrollment is needed for five children. Complete emergency card information is needed for one child. A current health appraisal with immunizations is needed for one child. Proof of lead screening is needed for two children. Screen time permission is needed for one child. Transportation permission is needed for six children. Infant feeding schedules are needed for two children. Developmental plans are needed for thirteen children.
Yes
?Fri Mar 04 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 38U - Parents Right to Know
Submit Parents Right to Know log.
Yes

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

Inspections (9)

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

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