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Wesley Preschool And Play Care

209 South State Street, Dover, DE 19901 · Kent County (302) 678-8987 License #28077
6
inspections on file
16
recorded violations
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severity not classified by the state
Feb 25, 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 Wesley Preschool And Play Care
DateKindOutcome as recordedViolationsOfficial record
Feb 25, 2026Unannounced Full Compliance Review3 regulations cited3Agency record
Feb 13, 2025Unannounced Full Compliance Review3 regulations cited3Agency record
Jan 9, 2025OCCL Standards ComplaintSubstantiated1Agency record
Feb 21, 2024Unannounced Full Compliance Review4 regulations cited4Agency record
Feb 9, 2023Unannounced Full Compliance Review1 regulation cited1Agency record
Feb 14, 2022Unannounced Full Compliance Review4 regulations cited4Agency 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.

Feb 25, 2026Unannounced Full Compliance Review · 3 deficiencies cited
Not classified
30U — Personnel Files

“Ensure staff files are complete. One staff member needs a service letter request for a previous employer.”

Corrected Mar 6, 2026 · Status as recorded: Completed
Not classified
41U — Child Health Appraisal

“Ensure child files are complete. One child needs an updated health appraisal on file.”

Corrected Mar 6, 2026 · Status as recorded: Completed
Not classified
63U — Administration of Medication

“Ensure medications are stored with a name on the box and the item in the box. Expired medications need to be returned and replaced. Medications for children no longer in use must be disposed of. Three medications were observed to not have a name on the box or the item. One medication had expired. One medication the child was no longer in care.”

Corrected Mar 6, 2026 · Status as recorded: Completed
Feb 13, 2025Unannounced Full Compliance Review · 3 deficiencies cited
Not classified
30U — Personnel Files

“Ensure staff files are complete Staff #1 need updated fingerprints and eligibility prior to returning to work.”

Corrected Feb 28, 2025 · Status as recorded: Completed
Not classified
56U — Sleeping Accommodations and Safe Sleep Environments

“Ensure top/bottom covers are available for each napping child. Two children in the Ducklings classroom did not have top/bottom coverings.”

Corrected Feb 17, 2025 · Status as recorded: Completed
Not classified
63U — Administration of Medication

“MAR's are required for each child receiving mediation. Expired medication must be returned to the family. Provide OCCL with a MAR for one child in the Ducklings Classroom.”

Corrected Feb 17, 2025 · Status as recorded: Completed
Jan 9, 2025OCCL Standards Complaint · 1 deficiency cited
Not classified
Substantiated complaint

“The Office of Child Care Licensing (OCCL) received a complaint on December 3, 2024, regarding temperatures in the building being too cold. An investigation was conducted on December 4, 2024. This complaint is substantiated because when the complaint was investigated Administrator #1 admitted the heater had been broken but repaired. However, a few of the classroom temperatures were below the required 68 degrees at the time of the visit.”

Correction date not recorded
Feb 21, 2024Unannounced Full Compliance Review · 4 deficiencies cited
Not classified
30U — Personnel Files

“Ensure personnel files are complete Staff #1 needs CPR/FA certification., health and safety hours and three additional training hours.”

Corrected Feb 21, 2024 · Status as recorded: Completed
Not classified
36U — Staff Attendance

“Ensure staff sign in/out with exact hours of arrival and departure.”

Corrected Mar 1, 2024 · Status as recorded: Completed
Not classified
43U — Children's Attendance

“Ensure staff attendance is documented with the children's exact hours of arrival/departure. Send one weeks attendance to OCCL”

Corrected Mar 1, 2024 · Status as recorded: Completed
Not classified
63U — Administration of Medication

“Applying lip balm to child is not permitted without an MAR. Provide OCCL w/ an MAR for the Chipmunks Classroom”

Corrected Mar 1, 2024 · Status as recorded: Completed
Feb 9, 2023Unannounced Full Compliance Review · 1 deficiency cited
Not classified
30U — Personnel Files

“Staff files must be complete Staff #1 needs OCCL s7 hour health and safety training Staff #2 needs OCCL 7 hour health and safety training Staff # 3 needs a professional development plan and OCCL 7 hour heath and safety training Staff #6 needs a professional development plan Staff #7 needs a professional development plan Staff #8 needs OCCL 7 hour health and safety training Staff #10 needs OCCL 7 hour health and safety training Staff #12 needs OCCL 7 hour health and safety training Staff #13 needs OCCL 7 hour health and safety training Staff #14 needs updated annual abuse and neglect documentation. Staff #16 needs a professional development plan and OCCL 7 hour health and safety training Staff #17 needs OCCL 7 hour health and safety training Staff #18 needs OCCL 7 hour health and safety training Staff #20 needs date of hire and OCCL 7 hour health and safety training Staff #21 needs annual review of abuse and neglect Staff #22 needs OCCL 7 hour health and safety training”

Corrected Mar 9, 2023 · Status as recorded: Completed
Feb 14, 2022Unannounced Full Compliance Review · 4 deficiencies cited
Not classified
27U — Ratios, Group Size, and Supervision

“Ratios must be maintained at all times. One child took one child to the restroom leaving the classroom out of staff to child ratio. This was corrected at the visit after having a conversation with staff.”

Corrected Feb 14, 2022 · Status as recorded: Completed
Not classified
30U — Personnel Files

“Staff files must be complete. Staff #7 needs four references. Provide OCCL a service letter for Staff #9 Proviide OCCL with a corrected or new health appraisal for Staff #12 Staff #16 needs one additional reference Provide OCCL with a medication training certificate for Staff #19”

Corrected Mar 8, 2022 · Status as recorded: Completed
Not classified
36U — Staff Attendance

“Attendance for children and staff need to refelct who is present in the classroom at all times. Attendance was not being accurately documented before the classroom split. Provide OCCL with one weeks clasroom attendance for the Ducklings classroom.”

Corrected Feb 28, 2022 · Status as recorded: Completed
Not classified
40U — Child Files

“Child files must be complete. Child #2 needs immunization or medical exemption Child #8 needs innumizations and blood lead results Child #9 needs immunizations”

Corrected Mar 8, 2022 · Status as recorded: Completed

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