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Boys & Girls Club @ Smyrna Clayton
Smyrna, DE
· Kent County
240 EAST COMMERCE STREET,
Smyrna, DE 19977
Quick Facts
Capacity
125 children
Age Range
3 years through 12 years.
Type of Care
School-Age Care Only
Subsidized Program
Does not participate
State Rating
5
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Contact Information
📞 (302) 659-5610
Licensed Licensed Child Care Center
Active License
License Number
552340
Licensed Since
2003
Issued By
Delaware Department of Services For Children, Youth And Their Families
Licensor
District Office
State of Delaware, Office of Child Care Licensing
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About the Provider
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware is part of a nationwide movement whose mission is to inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.
Additional Information:
Special Conditions: Variance; Financial Arrangements: Child Care Food Program;Nonprofit;Purchase of Care; Reported Injuries & Deaths: 2024: 1 facility injury. No facility deaths reported.; 2025: 1 facility injury. No facility deaths reported.; 2026: 2 facility injuries. No facility deaths reported.; 2021: 1 facility injury. No facility deaths reported.;
Hours of Operation
- Monday7:00 AM - 6:00 PM
- Tuesday7:00 AM - 6:00 PM
- Wednesday7:00 AM - 6:00 PM
- Thursday7:00 AM - 6:00 PM
- Friday7:00 AM - 6:00 PM
- Saturday Closed
- Sunday Closed
Inspection/Report History
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| Date | Type | Regulation Code | Status |
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| 2026-08-19 | Non Compliance | 36U - Staff Attendance | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure staff attendance includes exact hours worked in each classroom or area. Staff #1 in Room #1 and Staff #2 in Room #5 prefilled their departure time on the attendance records. This was discussed with staff and corrected when staff agreed to comply in the future. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Facility Visit |
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| 2026-08-19 | Non Compliance | 43U - Children's Attendance | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure child attendance is recorded to include exact arrival and departure times. Room #2 had 15 children present, but 17 children were signed in. Room #4 had 15 children present, but only 14 were signed in. Room #5 had 15 children present, but only 14 were signed in. This was discussed and corrected when the attendance records were updated. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Facility Visit |
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| 2026-08-19 | Non Compliance | 49U - Indoor Space | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure walls are cleanable and in good repair. Clean the carpet in Room #1. Repair the metal strip under the last bathroom stall in the boy's bathroom. Repair the broken and loose tiles in the Preschool classroom bathroom. Repair the wall under the window in Room #2. Ensure electrical outlets are covered. Several outlets in Room #1 need outlet covers. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2026-08-19 | Non Compliance | 53U - Outdoor Area | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure the outdoor play area is clean. Remove the trash and debris from the outdoor play area. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2026-08-19 | Non Compliance | 76U - Activity Schedule | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Post a daily schedule in Room #3. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2025-08-13 | Non Compliance | 27U - Ratios, Group Size, and Supervision | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure proper supervision is provided at all times. Upon arrival, this specialist observed five school-age children leave the outdoor play area, unsupervised and entered the building. The children were then seen walking to a staff member who was seated at a table inside the gym. This was discussed and corrected when staff agreed to comply in the future. Ensure proper staff-to-child ratios are maintained through the assignment of qualified staff. A staff member who is not 18 years old, and has not been fingerprinted and determined eligible was observed alone with a group of four school-age children in the gym. A second staff member who is qualified as an aide was observed taking two children to the bathroon in the gym. This was discussed and corrected when staff agreed to comply in the future. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Facility Visit |
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| 2025-08-13 | Non Compliance | 30U - Personnel Files | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure staff files are complete. Two staff need CPR and first aid certification. One staff needs first aid certification. Five staff need to update their administration of medication training/certification. One staff needs a DEEDS Early Learning qualifications certificate. One staff needs a professional development plan. One staff needs to complete OCCL's Health and Safety Training for Child Care Professionals. Four staff need additional references. One staff needs an eligibility letter. One staff needs an adult health appraisal with TB results. One staff needs a health appraisal. Two staff need service letters. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2025-08-13 | Non Compliance | 40U - Child Files | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure child files are complete. One child needs screen time permission. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2025-08-13 | Non Compliance | 49U - Indoor Space | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure floors, walls, and counter surfaces are cleanable.. The wall under the soap dispenser in the boys bathroom needs to be repaired. Ensure toilets are in good repair. Repair the broken toilet in the boys bathroom. Provide individual labeled storage spaces for the children in Room 109. The children's belongings were observed touching on a cart due to no other storage option. Ensure electrical outlets are covered. The power strip in Room 4 needs covers in all open outlets. Ensure trash is covered. Room 109's trash can is not covered. Discontinue the use of air fresheners. Room 4 needs to remove the can of air freshener. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2025-08-13 | Non Compliance | 50U - Kitchen and Food Preparation | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure food storage areas are clean. Clean the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2025-08-13 | Non Compliance | 51U - Toilet Facilities | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure all bathrooms have an operable window or ventilation fan. This specialist was unable to determine if the ventilation fans in the girls and the boys bathrooms were working properly. Ensure paper towels are available in the bathroom. The bathroom located in the preschool classroom needs paper towels. The hand-drying device was not operating. Ensure the bathrooms are clean. The boys bathroom has a strong urine odor. Clean the bathroom to eliminate the odor. A used feminine hygiene product was observed along the window sill behind the bathroom stall in the girls bathroom. Clean the bathroom and remove the feminine hygiene product. Repair the faucet on the first sink in the boys bathroom. This faucet is loose and moving. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2025-08-13 | Non Compliance | 53U - Outdoor Area | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Remove the shovel from the preschool outdoor play area. Provide a cover for the trash can in the preschool outdoor play area. Ensure the gates to the preschool outdoor play area are self-closing and self-latching. The front gate has a self-latching mechanism, but does not self-close. The back gate has a push bar mechanism that is in the children's reach. This gate needs a self-closing and self-latching mechanisms, that are out of the children's reach. Replenish the mulch in all areas where the equipment and swings are designed for the children's feet to leave the ground with 9 inches of mulch. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2025-08-13 | Non Compliance | 58U - Sanitation | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure soap/water and sanitizer/disinfectant is available. Room 5 needs sanitaizer/disinfectant. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2025-08-13 | Non Compliance | 65U - First Aid Kits | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Purchase bandage tape, eye patch, first aid guide, gloves, pen and note pad, plastic bags, roll gauze, safety pins, scissors, thermometer, triangle bandage or sling, and tweezers for the travel first aid kit in the white van. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2025-08-13 | Non Compliance | 74U - Lesson Plans | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure lesson plans contain daily opportunities for physical, social-emotional, language/literacy, and cognitive development activities for the preschool classroom. Ensure a monthly activity plan is posted and shows school-age children working on projects that require extended time to complete in such topics as science, math, social studies, language arts, cooking, drama, creative arts, or music for all school-age classrooms. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2024-08-05 | Non Compliance | 30T - Personnel Files | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure staff files are complete. Six staff need CPR and First Aid certification. One staff needs a professional Development plan. One staff needs an annual review of abuse and neglect. Four staff need orientation. Three staff need Health and Safety For Child Care Professionals training. One staff member needs an application, resume, or personal data sheet. Three staff need a job description. Eight staff need the appropriate amount of references. Two staff need an employee declaration and a drug and alcohol statement. One staff needs a letter of eligibility on file. One staff needs an adult abuse check completed. four staff need an adult health appraisal on OCCL's format, and five staff need a TB test result. Two staff need a release of employment history. Eight staff need initial or follow-up service letter requests from previous employers. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2024-08-05 | Non Compliance | 45T - Hazardous Materials | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Provide each classroom and bathroom with at least a labeled soap and water and a bleach and water bottle. Remove cleaners from children's reach. One classroom has a bucket of cleaners on the floor. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2024-08-05 | Non Compliance | 49T - Indoor Space | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Thirty-five square feet of useable floor space for each child is required. Remove the teacher-only areas or have the areas remeasured. Clean trash can lids in all classrooms. Ensure extension cords with outlets not in use are covered, and wall outlets not in use have covers. Ensure all soft materials are clean and laundered weekly. Ensure materials and their storage are clean. At least weekly, a licensee shall ensure non-porous toys and play equipment are washed with a soap and water solution and then disinfected. Ensure stained ceiling tiles are replaced in the Pre-K classroom. Ensure the walls are good repair the peeling paint and missing wall tile in the Pre-K bathroom. Personal belongings storage areas need to be relabeled in classroom 112. Classrooms 112 and 105 have labels peeling off, attracting debris and dirt; remove the labels. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2024-08-05 | Non Compliance | 53T - Outdoor Area | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure the protective surface of the outdoor play area beneath and in the fall zones of climbing equipment, slides, swings, and similar equipment is of approved resilient material, which absorbs falls. Ensure protective surfaces of the fall zone extend at least six feet in all directions from the equipment. For swings, a licensee shall ensure the protective surfacing extends, in back and front, twice the height of the suspending bar unless otherwise directed by the CPSC or other recognized authority on playground safety | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Facility Visit |
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| 2024-08-05 | Non Compliance | 63T - Administration of Medication | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure that expired medication is returned to the guardian. Prescription medication boxes must contain a pharmacy label for each box containing medication. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Facility Visit |
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| 2024-08-05 | Non Compliance | 65T - First Aid Kits | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure the travel first aid kit contains soap, water, a finger splint, an instant cold pack, and roll gauze. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2024-08-05 | Non Compliance | 9T - Changes Affecting a License | Completed |
| Corrective Action: A licensee shall submit a revised plan review and receive approval before making additions or renovations to the indoor areas. LS observed the previous food preparation and storage area being remodeled. Further conversation disclosed that the area's use will change. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2023-08-11 | Non Compliance | 30T - Personnel Files | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Staff #1 needs CPR/1st aid certification Staff #2 needs OCCL health and safety training Staff #3 needs 1 hour health & safety training, a professional development plan and OCCL health and safety training Staff #4 needs Cpr/1st aid certification, 2 references, an adult health appraisal and a service letter Staff #5 needs annual training hours, 1 hour health and safety training, OCCL health and safety training , 2 references and an adult health appraisal Staff #6 needs annual training hours 1 hour in health and safety, a professional development plan, OCCL health and safety training and a service letter Staff #7 needs medication certification, annual review of abuse and neglect and a service letter Staff #8 needs annual review of abuse and neglect, fingerprint receipt w/eligibility and a service letter Staff #9 needs medication certification and an eligibility letter Staff #10, 11 and 12 need entire files on site. Staff #13 needs orientation, and 2 references Staff #14 need | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2023-08-11 | Non Compliance | 40T - Child Files | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Child #11 needs a health appraisal | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2023-08-11 | Non Compliance | 63T - Administration of Medication | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Monthly medication logs were incomplete Medication guidelines are to be followed at all time. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2023-08-11 | Non Compliance | 66T - Emergency Planning | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Carry out and have available documented monthly evacuation drills. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2022-08-09 | Non Compliance | 27T - Ratios, Group Size, and Supervision | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Make sure children are always under direct supervision. LS McPhatter observed one child alone come to the office to retrieve a hand radio for a teacher. This was corrected when the child rejoined her classroom | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Facility Visit |
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| 2022-08-09 | Non Compliance | 30T - Personnel Files | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure staff files are complete. Staff #1 needs two reference letters, a service letter or documentation showing a request for a service letter, a follow-up request if needed, if unable to gain one completed service letter two additional references are needed. Staff #2 needs two references, a health appraisal on OCCL s form, tuberculosis results, service letters or documentation showing requests for a service letter follow up request if needed if unable to gain one completed service letter references are needed. Staff #3 needs an orientation release of employment history form and documentation showing requests for a service letter follow up request is needed if unable to gain one completed service letter no more information is needed for references are on file. Staff #4 verification of fingerprinting forms should be dated before the start date, service letters or documentation showing request for a service letter, follow up request is needed, no further references needed for reference | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2022-08-09 | Non Compliance | 49T - Indoor Space | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure the use of air fresheners is prohibited. LS McPhatter observed room 125 behind the staff desk and air freshener was plugged in. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Facility Visit |
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| 2022-08-09 | Non Compliance | 50T - Kitchen and Food Preparation | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure perishable food is kept refrigerated at 40 degrees Fahrenheit or colder or frozen at zero degrees Fahrenheit or colder. Room 111 the refrigerator was at 37 degrees, a freezer has no thermometer, a refrigerator has no thermometer, the large standing refrigerator has no thermometer. Room 125 the freezer has no thermometer, the refrigerator temperature is 44 degrees Fahrenheit. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2021-08-31 | Non Compliance | 58T - Sanitation | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure items are cleaned and sanitized as required. Ensure each classroom has soap and water and disinfectant solution. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2021-08-31 | Non Compliance | 66T - Emergency Planning | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Updated and submit the written emergency plan. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2021-08-26 | Non Compliance | 27T - Ratios, Group Size, and Supervision | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure staff-to-child ratio is followed at all times. Staff #9 was alone with 13 children without eligibility determination. Staff #2, an aide, was alone with children when he got them off the school bus. This was discussed and corrected when they were paired together in one classroom. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Facility Visit |
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| 2021-08-26 | Non Compliance | 28T - General Qualifications | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Have Staff #9 fingerprinted with comprehensive background check. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2021-08-26 | Non Compliance | 30T - Personnel Files | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure staff files are complete. Staff #1 needs CPR/ First Aid, administration of medication, and two hours of health and safety training. Staff #2 needs CPR/ First Aid. Staff #3 needs orientation, a health appraisal with TB. Staff #4 needs one reference and a health appraisal. Staff #5 needs a health appraisal and service letter. Staff #6 needs one reference. Staff #7 needs orientation and an adult abuse registry check. Staff #8 needs one reference, and a health appraisal. Staff #9 needs fingerprinting and a health appraisal. Staff #10 needs an orientation. Staff #11 needs a health appraisal with TB. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2021-08-26 | Non Compliance | 40T - Child Files | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure child files are complete. Child #1 needs a health appraisal. Child #7, Child #8 and Child #10 need a health appraisal with TB. Child #7 needs parents right to know, screen time and transportation permission. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2021-08-26 | Non Compliance | 45T - Hazardous Materials | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Complete and submit radon test results for each classroom or area used by children. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2021-08-26 | Non Compliance | 49T - Indoor Space | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure all toilets are in good repair. Repair the toilet in the classroom. Purchase trashcan lids for all trashcans in the facility including the bathrooms, kitchens and classrooms. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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