Delaware records · New Castle County · Wilmington
AMANDA CHILDCARE & PRESCHOOL CORP
Licensed Child Care Center · Wilmington, Delaware
Records presented as of November 5, 2026The operation, as the state lists it
- License number
- 1456688
- Operation type
- Licensed Child Care Center
- Address
- 2101 LANCASTER AVE, Wilmington, DE 19805
- Licensed capacity
- 43
- Ages served, as listed
- 6 weeks through 12 years.
- Hours, as listed
- 7:00 AM – 5:30 PM
- State programs listed
- Child Care Food Program;Purchase of Care
The record in numbers
| Compliance visits | 5 |
| Complaint investigations | 3 |
| Citations recorded | 42 |
| Citations with correction completed, per the state | 42 |
| Citations with correction still pending, per the state | 0 |
| Record span | March 25, 2022 – February 3, 2026 |
How to read this record
A compliance visit is a licensing visit by an OCCL specialist. When the specialist finds a regulation has not been met, the visit record carries a citation: the regulation's code and short description, the specialist's corrective-action note describing what was found, and the correction record — the date correction was due, whether the state has marked it completed, the date it was corrected, and how. A complaint investigation begins with a complaint; its record carries the state's result and the investigator's written conclusion. Delaware does not grade citations by risk or severity, so no grade is shown — the specialist's note is the substance of the record. One visit can produce several citations. A citation the state later records as corrected stays in the history; that is what a licensing record is.
Record by year
| Year | Visits & investigations | Citations recorded |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 5 |
| 2025 | 3 | 4 |
| 2024 | 1 | 6 |
| 2023 | 1 | 18 |
| 2022 | 2 | 9 |
Visits and investigations, newest first
5 regulations cited at this visit.
Ensure staff files are complete. Staff #1 needs Deeds qualification Staff #2 and #3 need updated Administration of Medication certification. Send documentation to OCCL by March 6, 2026.
Correction status: Completed · corrected March 10, 2026 · how corrected: Document · correction was due March 6, 2026
40. Ensure Child files are complete. Blood lead results are needed for Child #4, #5, and #9. Health appraisals are needed for Child #7 and #9. Emergency card information Child #12 needs emergency phone numbers for emergency contacts. Send documentation to OCCL by March 6, 2026.
Correction status: Completed · corrected March 6, 2026 · how corrected: Document · correction was due March 6, 2026
Ensure children s progress is being documented. Developmental plans are needed for Child #5, #6, and #11. Send documentation to OCCL by March 6, 2026.
Correction status: Completed · corrected March 6, 2026 · how corrected: Document · correction was due March 6, 2026
Ensure children over one years of age have a top and bottom covers for nap time. In two classrooms children did not have a top and bottom covers on their mat or cot. Send picture to OCCL of mats and cots with both top and bottoms covers by March 6, 2026.
Correction status: Completed · corrected March 4, 2026 · how corrected: Document · correction was due March 6, 2026
Ensure a completed application submitted at least 60 days before license expires. Send Completed application by March 6, 2026.
Correction status: Completed · corrected March 10, 2026 · how corrected: Document · correction was due March 6, 2026
A complaint investigation. The state's result is shown above, and the investigator's conclusion follows.
On August 14, 2025, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding allegations of failing to use appropriate behavior supports and failure to meet meal requirements. Based on observations and documents reviewed, this complaint is substantiated for failure to meet meal requirements. The meal served was missing one required component and the food served did not match the food listed on the menu for the day. Based on interviews conducted, observation, documentation collected, and video footage reviewed, there is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for allegations of failing to use appropriate behavior supports. Concerns noted during the visit were the meal for the two- to three-year-old class was served on Styrofoam plates, and an unqualified staff member was observed alone with seven two-year-olds and three-year-olds.
A complaint investigation. The state's result is shown above, and the investigator's conclusion follows.
On February 7, 2025, the Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint regarding an allegation of lack of supervision. An investigation began on February 12, 2025, and concluded on February 17, 2025. Based on interviews conducted and video footage reviewed, there is no evidence to substantiate this complaint for a lack of supervision at the child care facility.
4 regulations cited at this visit.
Ensure staff files are complete. Staff #1 needs Medication certificate. Staff #2 needs a Deeds certificate, Health appraisal w/TB, and service letter. Staff #3 needs 12 Training hours, PD plan, 7-hour OCCL health and safety training, Staff #4 needs four references and service letters. Staff #5 needs Deeds, medication certificate, and 7-hour OCCL health and safety training. Staff #6 annual sleep safe and annual child abuse and neglect review, orientation, 7-hour OCCL health and safety training, Job description, Declaration and drug/Alcohol statement and Health appraisal w/TB Staff #7 Deed medication, 7-hour OCCL health and safety training, Health appraisal w/TB, and service letters. Send documentation to OCCL by March 14, 2025.
Correction status: Completed · corrected April 16, 2025 · how corrected: Document · correction was due March 14, 2025
Ensure child files are complete. Children #5 and #10 need emergency contact information. Child #6 needs an updated health appraisal. Children #6, #9, and #10 need Blood lead screening. Child #11 needs an Infant feeding statement. Send documentation to OCCL by March 14, 2025.
Correction status: Completed · corrected April 2, 2025 · how corrected: Document · correction was due March 14, 2025
Ensure refrigerators have working thermometers and read 40 or below for refrigerators and zero or below for freezers. Replace refrigerator in the kitchen and add thermometers to the Kitchen, 2 s-3 s, and 4 s-5 s room refrigerators. Send a picture of the replacement refrigerator and thermometers reading the correct degrees by March 14, 2025.
Correction status: Completed · corrected April 2, 2025 · how corrected: Document · correction was due March 14, 2025
Ensure the clutter is cleared by the building on the playground. Send a picture of the cleared area by March 14, 2025.
Correction status: Completed · corrected April 2, 2025 · how corrected: Document · correction was due March 14, 2025
6 regulations cited at this visit.
Ensure staff files are complete. 7-hour OCCL Health and Safety Training in needed for Staff #5, 7, 8, and 9. A service letter is needed for staff #7, 8, 9. One additional reference is needed for staff #7 and 8. four additional references for staff #9. An annual review of abuse and neglect is needed for staff #4 and 6. Annual sleep safe needed for Staff #4. Professional Development plan is needed for Staff #1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 10.
Correction status: Completed · corrected March 15, 2024 · how corrected: Document · correction was due March 15, 2024
Ensure child files are complete. Send documentation to OCCL by 3/15/ 2024. Health Appraisals with immunizations adn blood lead screening for Child # 2, 8, 9. Immunizations adn blood lead screening for Child #1 and #6. Developmental plans needed for child #2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9
Correction status: Completed · corrected March 18, 2024 · how corrected: Document · correction was due March 15, 2024
Ensure Boys bathroom has covered trash can. Cover was broken. Send picture to OCCL by 3/15/2024.
Correction status: Completed · corrected March 14, 2024 · how corrected: Document · correction was due March 15, 2024
Ensure outdoor equipment is securely anchored. Send picture of swing set anchored in ground to OCCL by 3/15/2024.
Correction status: Completed · corrected March 15, 2024 · how corrected: Document · correction was due March 15, 2024
Ensure cribs are 18 inches apart. Send picture of room set up with cribs 18 inches apart.
Correction status: Completed · corrected March 11, 2024 · how corrected: Document · correction was due March 15, 2024
Ensure sufficient quantity of equipment is available for children. Send picture of books in 2 s /3 s Busy Bees room. Only 5 books accessible at the visit.
Correction status: Completed · corrected March 15, 2024 · how corrected: Document · correction was due March 15, 2024
18 regulations cited at this visit.
Send a copy of the current certificate of liability insurance.
Correction status: Completed · corrected March 20, 2023 · how corrected: Document · correction was due February 24, 2023
Staff #5 has been employed for more than 60 days and has not received a DEEDS Early Learning certificate. Send a copy of the DEEDS certificate for Staff #5.
Correction status: Completed · corrected February 27, 2023 · how corrected: Facility Visit · correction was due February 24, 2023
Staff #8 was alone with six children. Staff #8 is not qualified to be alone with the children. This was corrected when Staff #1 entered the classroom. Staff #2 stepped out of the classroom to retrieve an attendance record, leaving the classroom unsupervised. This was corrected when Staff #2 returned to the classroom. Both were corrected during the visit.
Correction status: Completed · corrected February 9, 2023 · how corrected: Facility Visit · correction was due February 9, 2023
All staff members must be fingerprinted and determined eligible by the Criminal History Unit before the staff member's start date. Send the fingerprinting receipt for four staff members.
Correction status: Completed · corrected July 13, 2023 · how corrected: Document · correction was due March 10, 2023
All staff files must be complete. Send the current CPR/First Aid for two staff members. Send the current professional development plan for eight staff members. Send the signed annual safe sleep for six staff members. Send the signed annual child abuse and neglect for seven staff members. Send the completed staff orientation record for five staff members. Send the certificates for the seven-hour Health and Safety training for six staff members. Send the job description for five staff members. Send the references for six staff members. Send the signed declaration for one staff member. Send the signed drug/alcohol statement for two staff members. Send the adult abuse registry for five staff members. Send the current health appraisal with TB for four staff members. Send the release of employment history for two staff members. Send the service letters for six staff members.
Correction status: Completed · corrected July 13, 2023 · how corrected: Document · correction was due March 10, 2023
Send the completed Parent Right to Know log.
Correction status: Completed · corrected March 20, 2023 · how corrected: Document · correction was due March 10, 2023
All child files must be complete. Send the current health appraisal with immunizations and blood lead screening for nine children.
Correction status: Completed · corrected June 15, 2023 · how corrected: Document · correction was due March 10, 2023
Send the current development plan for eight children.
Correction status: Completed · corrected June 15, 2023 · how corrected: Document · correction was due March 10, 2023
Ensure all children are signed in to the correct classroom when combining classrooms.
Correction status: Completed · corrected February 9, 2023 · how corrected: Facility Visit · correction was due February 9, 2023
Ensure all electrical outlets in the Busy Bee room have outlet covers. Ensure the trashcan in the Grizzly Bear room is covered.
Correction status: Completed · corrected February 27, 2023 · how corrected: Facility Visit · correction was due February 24, 2023
Ensure all trash is removed from the playground each day before it is used by the children. Ensure there is enough mulch under the fall zone areas. Send pictures once completed.
Correction status: Completed · corrected June 15, 2023 · how corrected: Document · correction was due March 10, 2023
Ensure all rest equipment is labeled in the Busy Bee and Grizzly Bear classrooms. Send pictures once completed.
Correction status: Completed · corrected February 27, 2023 · how corrected: Facility Visit · correction was due February 24, 2023
Ensure there is a sufficient quantity of age appropriate materials in the Little Ducklings classroom.
Correction status: Completed · corrected March 20, 2023 · how corrected: Document · correction was due February 24, 2023
Provide soap & water and disinfecting solution in the bathroom to properly clean the diaper changing table after each use. Ensure the exercise saucer in the infant classroom has been cleaned and sanitized. Send pictures once completed/.
Correction status: Completed · corrected March 20, 2023 · how corrected: Document · correction was due February 24, 2023
Provide a foot-operated trashcan for diaper disposal in the bathroom. Send a picture.
Correction status: Completed · corrected April 14, 2023 · how corrected: Document · correction was due February 24, 2023
Post the current lesson plan in the Busy Bee, Grizzly Bear, and Caterpillar classrooms. Send copies of the completed lesson plan.
Correction status: Completed · corrected February 27, 2023 · how corrected: Facility Visit · correction was due February 24, 2023
Ensure the Little Duckling classroom is set up with all five of the required areas for the age group. Send pictures.
Correction status: Completed · corrected March 20, 2023 · how corrected: Document · correction was due February 24, 2023
Send corrected and notarized renewal application to OCCL.
Correction status: Completed · corrected February 24, 2023 · how corrected: Document · correction was due February 24, 2023
9 regulations cited at this visit.
There was only one qualified staff member present in the building. Ensure there is sufficient staff present to operate the classrooms, maintain the correct staff-to-child ratios, and allow for staff to have breaks through the day. Send a staffing pattern documenting how this will be achieved.
Correction status: Completed · corrected April 26, 2022 · how corrected: Facility Visit · correction was due April 29, 2022
In the infant/toddler classroom there were 10 children present with four staff members. The children ranged in age from infant to two-years-old. The maximum group size for infants is eight children with two staff members. Only one of the staff members present had a DEEDS Early Learning certificate. In the preschool classroom there were 19 children present with two unqualified staff members. The children ranged in age from two-years-old to school-age. The maximum group size for two-year-old's is 16 children with two qualified staff members.
Correction status: Completed · corrected April 26, 2022 · how corrected: Facility Visit · correction was due April 29, 2022
There were two staff members present that had not yet been fingerprinted for the center. Ensure all staff members have been fingerprinted for the center prior to their start date.
Correction status: Completed · corrected April 26, 2022 · how corrected: Facility Visit · correction was due April 29, 2022
All staff members are required to sign in and out of the classrooms they are assigned to work in. There was no staff attendance documented for any of the classrooms in operation. Send one week's attendance for all classrooms documenting staff attendance.
Correction status: Completed · corrected April 26, 2022 · how corrected: Facility Visit · correction was due April 29, 2022
All children are required to be signed in and out of the classroom. There was no child attendance documented in any of the classrooms. Send one week's attendance documenting the children have been signed in and out correctly.
Correction status: Completed · corrected April 26, 2022 · how corrected: Facility Visit · correction was due April 29, 2022
The classroom floors and rugs had not been cleaned and were not suitable for the infants to be using for the required tummy time and exploration. All classroom floors and rugs need to be kept in clean and safe condition to be used by the children.
Correction status: Completed · corrected April 26, 2022 · how corrected: Facility Visit · correction was due April 29, 2022
There was an infant asleep in a bouncy seat with a blanket covering. Infants must be placed on their back, in a crib or pack-n-play when sleeping. There may be no blankets or objects placed in the crib or pack-n-play with the infant other then a tight fitting sheet around the mattress of the crib or pack-n-play. One pack-n-play present was not able to be set up safely for use. The second pack-n-play was not clean, did not have a tight fitting sheet covering the mattress, and had a tear in the side mesh. Cribs and pack-n-plays must be clean and in good condition. Infants may not share a crib or pack-n-play. Ensure there are enough cribs or pack-n-plays present for all infants enrolled in the program that are clean and in good condition with a tight fitting sheet covering the mattress.
Correction status: Completed · corrected April 26, 2022 · how corrected: Facility Visit · correction was due April 29, 2022
There were children ranging in age from infant to two-years-old present in the infant/toddler classroom. The classroom did not meet the required components for all ages present. Ensure the infant/toddler classroom is set up to meet the needs and required components for all age groups present in the classroom.
Correction status: Completed · corrected April 26, 2022 · how corrected: Facility Visit · correction was due April 29, 2022
The preschool children were in an unapproved classroom. New child care space cannot be used until after it has been approved by OCCL. The children were moved to a classroom that had been approved by OCCL during the pre-licensing process.
Correction status: Completed · corrected April 18, 2022 · how corrected: Facility Visit · correction was due April 18, 2022
A complaint investigation. The state's result is shown above, and the investigator's conclusion follows.
On March 17, 2022, a complaint was received regarding the allegations of improper staff-to-child ratios and not following the diaper changes requirements. An unannounced visit was conducted on March 21, 2022, to investigate the complaint. The complaint is substantiated because the Preschool classroom was not maintaining the correct staff-to-child ratio upon the arrival of the licensing specialists. It was also determined by reviewing the attendance sheets that the Infant/Toddler classroom had been over ratio on multiple dates when the infant who is enrolled was present in the classroom. The licensing specialists were able to determine by reviewing the Bright Wheel app that on March 18, 2022, the children had only been changed twice. The concerns observed during the complaint investigation were that the administrator left the classroom leaving the preschool-age children alone with an unqualified staff member twice during the visit. It was also observed that the attendance sheets were not being completed correctly or accurately because some staff and children were not signed in. An additional concern was that the center had a staff member present who had not been fingerprinted prior to her start date.
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