Cruz Kid Care Academy Llc
Inspection history
Source: Delaware Office of Child Care LicensingRecords 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.
| Date | Kind | Outcome as recorded | Violations | Official record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 2026 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 12 regulations cited | 12 | Agency record |
| Apr 9, 2025 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 13 regulations cited | 13 | Agency record |
| Apr 29, 2024 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 5 regulations cited | 5 | Agency record |
| Mar 8, 2024 | OCCL Standards Complaint | No Evidence to Substantiate | 0 | Agency record |
| May 1, 2023 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 7 regulations cited | 7 | Agency record |
| Apr 27, 2022 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 3 regulations cited | 3 | Agency record |
| Apr 13, 2022 | OCCL Standards Complaint | No Evidence to Substantiate | 0 | Agency record |
| Feb 22, 2022 | OCCL Standards Complaint | No Evidence to Substantiate with Concern | 0 | Agency record |
| Nov 10, 2021 | Unannounced Full Compliance Review | 4 regulations cited | 4 | Agency record |
Violations
Text reproduced verbatim · Delaware Office of Child Care LicensingNearly 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.
Class is our grouping of the state’s own weights, reviewed per state. The agency’s own label is always shown beside it.
“Ensure to have staff over 18 have a comprehensive background check and eligibility determined. Staff #2 had a pending OOS for over 45 days.”
“Ensure staff files are completed: Staff #1 needs CPR/FA certification, Staff #2 needs OCCL health and safety training, administration of medication certification and comprehensive background check with eligibly determined, Staff #3 needs DEEDS certification, Staff #4 needs CPR/FA certification and a service letter, Staff #5 needs TB test result, Staff #5 needs service letter, Staff #7 needs administration of medication certification, OCCL health and safety certification, Staff #8 needs DEEDS certification, OCCL health and safety training, one additional reference letter”
“Ensure child files are completed: Child #1 needs a health appraisal, immunization with lead blood test result, Child #2 and Child#3 needs immunization.”
“Updated radon test result is needed for child care space.”
“Ensure walls are in good repair. Repair the walls in the purple room and teal room from peeling paint. Send picture.”
“Ensure fall zones on the outdoor play area have enough mulch.”
“Ensure prohibited items are not in the cribs with infants. Sound machines were observed in or on the crib with loop strings and three infants were observed in the crib with bibs while sleeping. (This was corrected when staff removed the sound machine from the crib and the bibs from the infants.”
“Ensure enough equipment are available for children in each classroom. In the toddler 2 classroom five books were observed on the shelf in the classroom, later the shelf had more books, then the books were reduced. Send photo”
“Ensure all medication administration record are completed for over the counter and prescribed medications.”
“Updated monthly infant feeding schedule for all infants in care.”
“Ensure the lesson plans include social emotional. Provide lesson plans that include the social emotional.”
“Ensure to submit renewal application 60 days before license expiration. (This was corrected when licensee provided a renewal application during the visit)”
“Complete files are needed for the following staff: Staff #1 needs an annual safe sleep, annual abuse and neglect, OCCL health and safety training, health appraisal with TB, release of employment and adult abuse check Staff #2 needs orientation, adult abuse check and OCCL health and safety training Staff #3 needs annual abuse and neglect, orientation, OCCL health and safety training, adult abuse check, health appraisal with TB and release of employment Staff #4 needs a CPR/FA certification, orientation, administration of medication certification, OCCL health and safety training, job description, adult abuse check and CHU letter of eligibility. Staff #5 needs CPR/FA certification, DEED certification, orientation, one additional reference letter CHU letter of eligibility, adult abuse check, health appraisal with TB, release of employment Staff #6 needs CPR/FA certification, administration of medication certification, orientation, OCCL health and safety training, two reference letters, a CHU letter of eligibility, release of employment, adult abuse check, service letter Staff #7 needs CPR/FA certification, administration of medication certification, OCCL health and safety training, job description, two reference letters, health appraisal with TB, release of employment Staff #8 needs CPR/FA certification, administration of medication certification, OCCL health and safety training, job description, two reference letters, health appraisal with TB, service letter Staff #9 needs annual training hours Staff #10 needs Two more hours of annual training hours Staff #11 needs CPR/FA certification, administration of medication certification, OCCL health and safety training, two reference letters, health appraisal with TB, service letter Staff #12 needs CPR/FA certification, CHU letter of eligibility Staff #13 needs CHU letter of eligibility, administration of medication certification”
“Ensure staff's exact departure is documented on the attendance record. In the PS/PK classroom staff did not sign out of the classroom and were not present in the classroom. Provide the attendance record for the classroom from 4-10-2025 to 4-17-2025”
“Ensure child files are completed: Child #1 needs a health appraisal with immunization Child #2 needs blood lead test result Child #6 needs health appraisal with immunization Child #8 needs, blood lead test result Child #10 needs health appraisal with immunization and blood lead test result Child#13 needs health appraisal with immunization”
“Ensure an annual developmental plan is available for each child in care.”
“Ensure to document the exact arrival of children in care. In the Three- year old classroom one child was not sign in. Provide OCCL with attendance for the classroom from 4-10 to 4-17.”
“ensure all containers with chemicals are labeled with contents in the PS/ PK room has a zep bottle and two small blue bottles with liquid with no labels. Provide picture to OCCL with bottles labeled.”
“Ensure interior spaced designated for children in care use is available to children when the center is in operation. The school age classroom is currently being used as storage , the old infatn classroom is used for staorage and the toddler ones is being used for indoor play area. Set each room to meet the regulations and send pictures of the classsroom set up. Provider can also sent document to remove them as spaced used for children and reduce capacity.”
“Ensure gates are self-latching, gate behind the building is not self latching.. Ensure the fall zones have proper depth to absorb falls. Send video and picture.”
“Ensure rest equipment doe not touch another child's rest equipment.”
“Ensure to follow all administration of medication procedures. Ensure all medications are accompanied with the MAR. Ensure that medication that is no longer in used are returned to the parents. Ensuree all medication are labeled and in orgianl box. Ensure to disposed of all expired medication. Provide a written statement to OCCL about the medications observed in each classroom.”
“Ensure monthly feeding forms are updated for infants in care.”
“Ensure daily schedule is followed allowing outdoor gross motor play. During the visit staff was observed taking the children to an indoor classroom instead of outside for outdoor play. Other classroom did not follow the schedule by taking the children outside for outdoorplay time.”
“Ensure to submit the renewal application for the child care center 60 days before license expiration”
“Ensure staff to child ratio is maintained at all times. In the one year old classroom, LS observed 14 one- two year old children were observed in the classroom. The youngest was one year old. This was corrected when staff remove two of the children from the classroom.”
“Complete file are needed for the following staff members: Staff #1 a comprehensive background check since staff have turned 18 on 4-1-2024. Staff #2 needs OCCL health and safety training Staff #3 needs OCCL health and safety training”
“Ensure staff sign in and out of the classroom. In the one year old classroom a staff AP did not sign out the classroom.”
“Complete child file is needed: Child #14 needs a blood lead screening result.”
“Ensure children are sign in and out of a classroom. In the one year old classroom a child was not sign out of the classroom when he went to another classroom.”
“Ensure staff follow staff to child ratio at all times. A staff member in the infant classroom walked out of the room leaving the other staff member with eight infants. ( This was corrected when the staff returned to the classroom)”
“Complete files are needed for the following staff members: Staff #1 needs OCCL Health and safety training and 18 hours of annual training Staff #2 needs OCCL Health and safety training and 2 hours of annual training Staff #3 needs OCCL Health and safety training and 18 hours of annual training Staff #4 needs OCCL Health and safety training Staff #5 needs OCCL Health and safety training and 18 hours of annual training Staff #6 needs OCCL Health and safety training Staff #7 needs OCCL Health and safety training Staff #8 needs OCCL Health and safety training and 3 hours of annual training, a health appraisal with TB, CPR certification and DEEDS certification Staff #9 needs OCCL Health and safety training and 18 hours of annual training Staff #10 needs OCCL Health and safety training and 18 hours of annual training Staff #11 needs OCCL Health and safety training and 18 hours of annual training Staff #12 needs orientation, OCCL Health and safety training a health appraisal with TB, release of employment, a service letter.”
“Ensure staff members sign in and out of a classroom. A staff member did not sign out of the pre K classroom. ( This was corrected when the staff was signed out of the classroom)”
“Developmental plans are needed for all children in the center.”
“Ensure to follow the administration of medication at all times. Provide MAR for all medications that is not soap and water for all classrooms.”
“Provide a weekly special on the lesson plan. Add a food exploration or health habit on all lessons plans in classrooms that have children over 24 months.”
“Ensure choking hazards are not present in the classrooms. Remove black plastic bags from the one year old classroom. ( send pictures)”
“Complete files for four staff members. Staff #4 professional plan Staff #6 Professional plan Staff #8 Professional plan Staff #12 CPR/ FA certification”
“A staff member documented her departure time on the attendance record in the three- year-old classroom at the time of her arrival in the classroom. Ensure to document the exact arrival and departure times at the time of arrival and departure (This was correct when staff agreed.)”
“Lead screening result is needed for Child #9. Update infant feeding schedule for five infants.”
“Ensure to have documentation of when a staff member is eligible to be left alone with children. ( This was corrected when administrator contacted CHU to retrieve a copy of staff members eligibility letter).”
“Complete files are needed for the following staff members: Staff #2 needs an adult abuse check and administration of medication certificate.”
“Ensure staff members document their exact hours of when there are in a classroom. In the one-year-old room, a staff member did not sign in or out on the attendance record. (This was corrected when the staff member documented her time in and out of the classroom).”
“Complete child files are needed for two children. Child #4 and Child #11 needs a child appraisal.”
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