Safety & records · Delaware
Reading a daycare's record in Delaware
Delaware publishes inspection records through My Child DE / OCCL Child Care Search. This page walks you to the record, decodes its vocabulary from the state's own definitions, and states what the archive cannot tell you. We never name, rate, or score a center.
First, the money
Records are half the decision. The other half is whether you can get help paying — run the free check for Delaware before you fall in love with a center you cannot fund.
The portal
My Child DE / OCCL Child Care Search
Licensing history and the inspection report for each on-site visit, regulation violations, corrective action required, and substantiated complaint reports with the investigator's summary, date, and conclusion.
What this portal does not show
The full active record and complaint file is by request to the Office of Child Care Licensing — the search shows the summary layer.
How Delaware grades what it finds
Narrative findings under the DELACARE regulations, cited as numbered rules; no severity classes confirmed.
Words like these are decoded, term by term, in the records decoder — always from the state's own published definitions, and always with the correction status given the same weight as the finding.
If you need to report something
OCCL at 302-892-5800 (New Castle) or 302-739-5487 (Kent/Sussex); abuse and neglect to the Child Abuse Hotline.
Read any record in this order
- The license status first — active, conditional, or under action.
- The findings, newest to oldest, watching for the same rule cited twice.
- The correction status on each finding — corrected, corrected on site, plan accepted, or still open. It carries the same weight as the finding.
- The blind spots above: what this archive structurally cannot show you.
Portal facts checked October 2026. Only the state agency's record is the record — this page is a map to it, not a copy of it.