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Edu-care Preschool & Daycare
Newark, DE
· New Castle County
345 POLLY DRUMMOND HILL ROAD,
Newark, DE 19711
Quick Facts
Capacity
170 children
Age Range
6 weeks through 12 years.
Subsidized Program
Does not participate
Food Program
Does not participate
State Rating
4
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Licensed Licensed Child Care Center
Active License
License Number
28445
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
Edu-Care believes that young children flourish in a warm, secure, and stimulating environment where they can find various experiences with people, ideas and learning materials. Besides our goal to promote the children's physical, social, emotional, cognitive and language development, we place a great deal of emphasis in our program on helping the children develop a positive self-image, the ability to function in a group setting, and the acquisition of good learning habits. We've found that children who master these basic skills at an early age have an excellent foundation for future learning.
Additional Information:
Financial Arrangements: Purchase of Care; Reported Injuries & Deaths: 2025: 1 facility injury. No facility deaths reported.; 2026: 3 facility injuries. No facility deaths reported.; 2024: 1 facility injury. No facility deaths reported.;
Hours of Operation
- Monday6:30 AM - 5:30 PM
- Tuesday6:30 AM - 5:30 PM
- Wednesday6:30 AM - 5:30 PM
- Thursday6:30 AM - 5:30 PM
- Friday6:30 AM - 5:30 PM
- Saturday Closed
- Sunday Closed
Inspection/Report History
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| Date | Type | Regulation Code | Status |
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| 2026-01-05 | Non Compliance | 30U - Personnel Files | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure staff files are complete 18 hours of annual training including 2 in health and safety. Training hours are needed for Staff #1 (18 hours), Staff #2 (18 hours), Staff #3 (18 hours), Staff #4 (18 hours), S Staff #5 (18 hours), and Staff #6 (9 hours) PD Plan are needed for Staff #1, #2, #3, and #6. Review of safe sleep and abuse and neglect is needed for staff #1, #2, #3, #6, and #9. 7-hour OCCL Health and Safety training is needed for Staff #4, #6, #7, and #11. Health Appraisal is needed for Staff #5 and #11. Orientation is needed for Staff #7 and #11 References are needed for Staff #4 (2 references), Staff #7 (4 references), Staff #10 (4 references), Staff #11(4 references) Send documentation to OCCL by February 6, 2026. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2026-01-05 | Non Compliance | 35U - First Aid and CPR Training | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure First Aid and CPR is completed within two months of hire and renewed every two years. Staff #4 and #7 need to complete First Aid and CPR. Send documentation to OCCL by February 6, 2026. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2026-01-05 | Non Compliance | 40U - Child Files | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure child files are complete Updated physical is needed for Child #3, #5, and #11. Immunization records are needed for child #3. Blood lead screening results are needed for Child #3 and #8. Send documentation to OCCL by February 6, 2026. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2026-01-05 | Non Compliance | 53U - Outdoor Area | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure gates are self-closing and positive self-latching closure. Add self-closing latch to all gates on fenced playgrounds. Send picture to OCCL by February 6, 2026. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2025-01-07 | Non Compliance | 30U - Personnel Files | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure personnel files are complete. Staff #1 needs 2 or 4 references, Adult abuse, Deeds cert. Health Appraisal W/TB, release of employment, service letters Staff #2 needs CPR and first aid, 2 or 4 references, Deeds cert. Staff #3 Medication cert, four references, health appraisal W/TB Staff #4 needs five training hours. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2025-01-07 | Non Compliance | 40U - Child Files | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure child files are complete. Child #2 and #8 needs health appraisal Child #11 needs immunization records Child #5 and #11 need Blood lead screening Send documentation to OCCL by February 10, 2025. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2025-01-07 | Non Compliance | 42U - Documenting Children's Progress | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure children's progress is being documented. Child #3, #5, #10, #11, #14, and #15 need development plans. Send documentation to OCCL by February 10. 2025. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2025-01-07 | Non Compliance | 45U - Hazardous Materials | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure radon testing is completed every five years. Send documentation to OCCL by February 10, 2025. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2025-01-07 | Non Compliance | 63U - Administration of Medication | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure medication administration record is completed for all medications. Child #14 needs a MAR completed for the tube of diaper ointment. use the specific name of the ointment used. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2024-01-23 | Non Compliance | 30U - Personnel Files | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure all staff files are complete. OCCL 7-hour training for Staff #3 adn #4 Health Appraisal w/TB results needed for Staff #3 | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2024-01-23 | Non Compliance | 40U - Child Files | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure all child files are complete. Health appraisal for Child #1, 4, 5, 6, 10 Immunizations for Child #1, 5, 6, 10 Blood lead results for Child #1, 5, 6, 11, 13 | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2023-01-05 | Non Compliance | 30U - Personnel Files | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure all staff files are complete. - Staff #1 needs 18 training hours (transcript) - Staff #2 need their annual safe sleep and child abuse/neglect signatures, release of employment history, and 2 documented attempts for their service letter. - Staff #3 need 3 more training hours, a professional development plan, and a DEEDS certification or proof of application submission. - Staff #4 need their health/safety training certificate, a professional development plan, 2 hours of health/safety training, CPR/FA certificate, administration of medication training or certificate, and 9 training hours. - Staff #5 need a health appraisal with TB results on file, health/safety training certificate, and administration of medication training or certificate. - Staff #7 need their health/safety training certificate, administration of medication training or certificate, DEEDS certificate (or verification of application submission), and 15 training hours. - Staff #9 need their health/safet | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2023-01-05 | Non Compliance | 40U - Child Files | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Ensure al child files are complete. - Children #2, 14, and 14 need updated health appraisals. - Children #1,3,9, and 10 need blood lead screening results. - Child #1 needs an immunization record on file. - Child #4 needs a developmental plan. - Submit updated infant feeding schedules for the month of January for all infants to OCCL.. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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| 2023-01-05 | Non Compliance | 51U - Toilet Facilities | Completed |
| Corrective Action: Replace toilet lid in the younger 4's classroom. Toilet lid was cracked upon observation. | |||
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Provider Response: (Contact the State Licensing Office for more information.) Document |
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