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Delaware child care inspection records
Records presented as of November 5, 2026Every child care provider in Delaware is licensed by the Delaware Department of Education, Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL). Licensing specialists visit providers to review compliance with the state's child care regulations, and OCCL also investigates complaints. This site republishes the records of those visits and investigations for every operating licensed provider in the state, in the state's own words, so a parent can read what the licensing specialist actually found before choosing care.
Delaware licenses three kinds of operations. Child care centers and large family child care homes publish with their full records, including the street address the state lists for the operation. A family child care home is a small operation run out of a private residence; those records publish by name and city only — no street address, and the text of citations and investigation conclusions is withheld while the counts, dates, and the state's outcome words still show. The methodology explains the grain in full. Providers whose license the state lists as suspended or revoked are not operating and are not listed.
Two kinds of records appear. A compliance review records the regulations a specialist cited at a licensing visit, with the specialist's corrective-action note on each citation and the state's record of whether and how the correction was completed. A complaint investigation records a complaint OCCL investigated, the state's result — for example, substantiated or no evidence to substantiate — and the investigator's conclusion. Delaware does not assign risk levels to citations; none are shown, because none exist in the record. Nothing here scores or ranks a provider.
The Delaware record in numbers
| Licensed providers with a published record | 1,202 |
| Published with full records (centers and large family homes) | 710 |
| Published by name and city (family child care homes) | 492 |
| Compliance-review visits | 3,920 |
| Complaint investigations | 2,260 |
| Citations recorded | 13,496 |
| Citations with correction completed, per the state | 13,473 |
| Citations with correction still pending, per the state | 23 |
| Providers with no citations in the record window | 150 |
Browse by county
- New Castle County (750 providers)
- Sussex County (236 providers)
- Kent County (216 providers)
Largest cities
- Wilmington (318 providers)
- Newark (136 providers)
- Dover (106 providers)
- New Castle (94 providers)
- Middletown (67 providers)
- Bear (66 providers)
- Seaford (46 providers)
- Smyrna (34 providers)
- Milford (28 providers)
- Georgetown (27 providers)
- Millsboro (23 providers)
- Laurel (21 providers)
- Bridgeville (20 providers)
- Hockessin (20 providers)
- Townsend (20 providers)
- Claymont (19 providers)
- Felton (16 providers)
- Harrington (13 providers)
- Lewes (13 providers)
- Milton (12 providers)
- Greenwood (11 providers)
- Magnolia (10 providers)
- Camden Wyoming (9 providers)
- Frankford (9 providers)
Records are presented as the state issued them. If a record here looks wrong, or a family child care home's record shows more than name-and-city detail, the corrections page is the fastest route — a grain concern pauses the record while it is reviewed.