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Whatcoat Christian Preschool

16 North Main Street, Camden, DE 19934 · Kent County (302) 698-2108 License #505742
5
inspections on file
19
recorded violations
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severity not classified by the state
Mar 17, 2026
last inspection

Inspection history

Source: Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing

Records held from Sep 27, 2021 onward. Earlier visits may exist in the agency’s own files.

Delaware publishes only visits where a regulation was cited, plus complaint investigations. Visits that found no violations do not appear in the state's data, so a gap between dates here does not mean the program went uninspected. Delaware does not publish a severity weight for its citations.

Inspection history for Whatcoat Christian Preschool
DateKindOutcome as recordedViolationsOfficial record
Mar 17, 2026Unannounced Full Compliance Review5 regulations cited5Agency record
Mar 11, 2025Unannounced Full Compliance Review7 regulations cited7Agency record
Mar 1, 2024Unannounced Full Compliance Review1 regulation cited1Agency record
Mar 1, 2023Unannounced Full Compliance Review5 regulations cited5Agency record
Mar 11, 2022Unannounced1 regulation cited1Agency record

Violations

Text reproduced verbatim · Delaware Office of Child Care Licensing
How to read violations

Nearly every licensed provider accumulates some. A missing signature and an unlocked medicine cabinet are both “violations”, and they are not the same thing. Look at the class, the pattern over time and how quickly it was corrected — not the count alone.

Paperwork — records, postings, forms Standard — supervision, ratio, training Health & safety — direct risk to a child

Class is our grouping of the state’s own weights, reviewed per state. The agency’s own label is always shown beside it.

Mar 17, 2026Unannounced Full Compliance Review · 5 deficiencies cited
Not classified
30U — Personnel Files

“Ensure staff files are complete. One staff needs a PD plan. One staff needs orientation, OCCL's Health and Safety training, 2 references, release of employment, service letters or two documented attempts with 2 additional references.”

Corrected Apr 14, 2026 · Status as recorded: Completed
Not classified
38U — Parents Right to Know

“Ensure Parents Right to Know log is completed for new and touring families.”

Corrected Mar 23, 2026 · Status as recorded: Completed
Not classified
40U — Child Files

“Ensure child files are complete. One child needs updated health appraisal with immunizations. One child needs updated immunizations.”

Corrected Apr 13, 2026 · Status as recorded: Completed
Not classified
53U — Outdoor Area

“Ensure fall zones have at least nine inches of material extending 6 feet in all directions of the play equipment.”

Corrected Mar 31, 2026 · Status as recorded: Completed
Not classified
65U — First Aid Kits

“Ensure first aid kit is complete. Kit was missing bandage tape.”

Corrected Mar 24, 2026 · Status as recorded: Completed
Mar 11, 2025Unannounced Full Compliance Review · 7 deficiencies cited
Not classified
30U — Personnel Files

“Ensure staff files are complete. Seven staff need a PD plan. One staff needs annual review of abuse and neglect.”

Corrected Apr 8, 2025 · Status as recorded: Completed
Not classified
40U — Child Files

“Ensure child files are complete. Four children need date of enrollment. Seven children need days and hours of attending. Four children need transportation permission. Three children need an emergency card. Three children need updated health appraisals with immunizations. One child needs blood lead screening results. Three children need Parents Right Know and Screentime permissions. Three children need a development plan. One child needs an updated MAR for occasional use and medication labeled.”

Corrected Mar 21, 2025 · Status as recorded: Completed
Not classified
45U — Hazardous Materials

“Ensure radon testing is completed every five years.”

Corrected Mar 12, 2025 · Status as recorded: Completed
Not classified
61U — Diapering and Soiled Clothing

“Ensure diaper procedures are posted in the diaper changing area.”

Corrected Mar 18, 2025 · Status as recorded: Completed
Not classified
66U — Emergency Planning

“Ensure fire drills are conducted monthly.”

Corrected Apr 8, 2025 · Status as recorded: Completed
Not classified
76U — Activity Schedule

“Ensure daily schedule is posted in each classroom.”

Corrected Mar 18, 2025 · Status as recorded: Completed
Not classified
8U — License Renewal

“Ensure a notarized renewal application is submitted at least 60 days before license expires.”

Corrected Mar 12, 2025 · Status as recorded: Completed
Mar 1, 2024Unannounced Full Compliance Review · 1 deficiency cited
Not classified
30U — Personnel Files

“Ensure staff files are complete. Three staff need letters of eligibility on file. One Staff member needs CPR and first aid certification and references. Two staff need a job descriptions, health, and safety for child care providers”

Corrected Apr 15, 2024 · Status as recorded: Completed
Mar 1, 2023Unannounced Full Compliance Review · 5 deficiencies cited
Not classified
27U — Ratios, Group Size, and Supervision

“Ensure children are supervised at all times. The specialist observed a staff member in room #5 in the doorway threshold watching a child use the bathroom across the hallway and the children in the classroom. A staff member was in the threshold of a door way handing an item across the hallway to a staff member in the threshold of the other doorway to receivee an item. Read A Loud Staff member was alone in the hallway with one child reading a book. Ensure read a aloud is under qualified, eligible staff supervision. This was corrected when the child and Read A Loud staff went to a classroom to read to the children.”

Corrected Mar 1, 2023 · Status as recorded: Completed
Not classified
40U — Child Files

“Ensure child files are complete. 2 children need blood lead test results. One child needs a health appraisal on file.”

Corrected Mar 9, 2023 · Status as recorded: Completed
Not classified
43U — Children's Attendance

“Ensure exact arrival and departure items for child are recorded in the exact room they are in. This was discussed and was corrected at the visit.”

Corrected Mar 1, 2023 · Status as recorded: Completed
Not classified
63U — Administration of Medication

“Ensure expired or not needed medication is sent home. this was corrected at the visit.”

Corrected Mar 1, 2023 · Status as recorded: Completed
Not classified
9U — Changes Affecting a License

“Ensure a plan review is submitted when changes to the environment are made.”

Corrected Mar 10, 2023 · Status as recorded: Completed
Mar 11, 2022Unannounced · 1 deficiency cited
Not classified
27U — Ratios, Group Size, and Supervision

“Ensure children are under direct supervision/observation. Upon arrival LS McPhatter knocked on the door and observed staff #4 in the classroom and hallway; while there were four children in the classroom; she was covering for staff #3. Staff #1 asked staff #2 to stand in the threshold of her classroom that has two children in it and watch staff #1's classroom; that has 4 children in it; through her open door approximately 4 feet way from staff #2's classroom. Staff #2 agreed to do so. Staff #1 left her room to open the door for LS McPhatter.”

Corrected Mar 11, 2022 · Status as recorded: Completed

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