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THE LITTLE CABOOSE CHILDCARE AND LEARNING CENTER

Child care center · 366 OLD BALTIMORE PIKE, Newark, DE 19702 · License 29295

16Compliance score
Poor

Capacity 171. Infant through Pre-School Accepts subsidy

Violation history (14)

SeverityDateStandard / narrativeCorrected
?Fri Aug 01 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 30U - Personnel Files
Ensure staff files are complete. Staff #2 needs OCCL Health & Safety training. Staff #7 needs 2 references and service letter, Staff #9 needs service letter or 2 attempts, Staff #10 needs release of employment & service letter.
Yes
?Fri Aug 01 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 63U - Administration of Medication
Ensure medication is not expired. Child #21 has an expired EpiPen.
Yes
?Thu Aug 15 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 45U - Hazardous Materials
Ensure all cabinets used to store cleaning products and hazardous materials are locked or out of reach of children.
Yes
?Thu Aug 15 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 49U - Indoor Space
Ensure all air fresheners and plug-in air fresheners are not used in the classrooms. Remove from classrooms.
Yes
?Thu Aug 15 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 57U - Equipment
Clean pillows/covers in rooms 3 & 4, dramatic play cozy area.
Yes
?Thu Aug 15 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 63U - Administration of Medication
Ensure all children have current MAR forms , including rash creams and sunscreen. Send forms for rooms 3, 4, and infants.
Yes
?Thu Aug 15 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 74U - Lesson Plans
Ensure all lesson plans are posted & available for review.
Yes
?Thu Aug 31 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 49U - Indoor Space
Ensure floors, walls, and surfaces ae cleanable. Remove peeling tape from the floor in Room #4. This was corrected at the visit.
Yes
?Thu Aug 31 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 66U - Emergency Planning
Ensure center has an adequate emergency water supply.
Yes
?Wed Aug 31 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 20U - Positive Behavior Management
Ensure that all staff use developmentally-appropriate methods of behavior management of children. Staff #1 roughly handled a child when she picked the child up by the arm. Staff #1 must complete the following three hours of professional development training which can be found on the DEPDNOW website: Positive Behavior Management. Submit documentation of completion to OCCL by September 30, 2022.
Yes
?Wed Aug 31 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 64U - Child Accident and Injury
Ensure all serious or potentially serious injury, a licensee shall ensure the parent or guardian is notified immediately after staff members have assisted the child. This was corrected when LS Flowers counseled the administration team on this regulation.
Yes
?Wed Aug 03 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 43U - Children's Attendance
Ensure children's attendance is accurate. At the time of the visit, three children left the classroom with a staff member and were not signed out.
Yes
?Wed Aug 03 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 36U - Staff Attendance
Ensure staff attendance is accurate. At the time of the visit, two staff members in room #10 were not signed into the classroom.
Yes
?Wed Apr 20 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) 20U - Positive Behavior Management
Ensure that all staff use developmentally-appropriate methods of behavior management of children. Staff #1 admitted to striking her own child while the child was enrolled at the center and in care at the facility. This was corrected when Staff #1's employment was immediately terminated from employment and the center owner contacted the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Hotline.
Yes

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

Inspections (6)

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

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