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Charlotte · Licensed center

Childcare Network #92b

At a glance

  • Small center, licensed for 27 children.
  • Run by a for-profit business, which holds the license.

What the state has found

The state cited rules at all 7 of its licensing inspections since March 2024.

See each inspection

Licensing inspections

  • Feb 23, 20265 citations
    • Citation
      • “A current activity plan was not posted for each group of children for reference. A current lesson plan was not posted in space #2 or #3. The lesson plan posted in space #1 was not dated.”

        Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 2/23/2026

    • Citation
      • “Toys and other mouth-contact surfaces were not cleaned and sanitized daily when used or cleaned more frequently if visibly dirty. A dirty toy bin was not present in space #3 nor were there any identified mouthed toys removed from the environment.”

        Violation corrected during visit

    • Citation
      • “Equipment and furnishings not meeting the requirements outlined in child care .0601(b) and (c) were not removed or made inaccessible. Books were monitored in poor condition in spaces #2 and #3.”

        Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 2/23/2026

    • Citation
      • “A child care operator did not notify the Division of any new child care providers, as defined in G.S. 110-90.2(a)(2), who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. One staff member hired in December 2025, was not linked to the facility in the ABCMS.”

        Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 2/23/2026

    • Citation
      • “The depth of the loose surfacing was not based on critical height of the equipment. The protective surfacing did not measure at least six inches in depth was compacted.”

        Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 3/11/2026

  • Oct 23, 20253 citations
    • Citation
      • “Equipment and furnishings not meeting the requirements outlined in child care .0601(b) and (c) were not removed or made inaccessible. At least three books were monitored in poor repair in space #2.”

        Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 10/23/2025

    • Citation
      • “The EPR Plan did not include the location of the Ready to Go File and or the required information. The monitored RTGF was not current with each child's emergency contact information, or allergy information. There were two children whose required information was not maintained in the file.”

        Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 10/23/2025

    • Citation
      • “The depth of the loose surfacing was not based on critical height of the equipment. The mulch/fall zone at the base of the yellow slide didn't meet six inches in depth.”

        Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 10/27/2025

  • Mar 5, 20253 citations
    • Citation
      • “Equipment and furnishings not meeting the requirements outlined in child care .0601(b) and (c) were not removed or made inaccessible. A plastic flower on a Little Tykes Tree house was monitored broken off, leaving the green plastic stem protruding.”

        Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 3/6/2025

    • Citation
      • “All equipment and furnishings were not in good repair. The white fence slat was monitored boding over by overgrown vines and weeds pushing up against the fence.”

        Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 3/18/2025

    • Citation
      • “Staff did not complete the health and safety training within one year of employment. Three existing staff were required to complete H & S training by March 1, 2025.”

        Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 3/19/2025

  • Jan 8, 20253 citations
    • Citation
      • “Incident reports were not completed each time a child was injured, it did not include all the information required in rule, it was not signed by the parent and/or it was not maintained in the child's file. Various completed incident reports were not filed in the applicable child's file. They were maintained in the incident log binder instead.”

        Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 1/10/2025

    • Citation
      • “Incident logs were not completed and maintained as required. An incident report completed and signed on 11/13/2024 was not monitored logged onto the center's incident log. Ms. D. added the missing incident to the log during the visit.”

        Violation corrected during visit

    • Citation
      • “The temperature in a room where infants aged 12 months or younger where sleeping exceeded 75 degrees. The infant room/Space #1 temperature was monitored at 79f instead of maintaining at 75f or under. The temperature was manually altered by the caregiver during the visit and the temperature was later monitored at 75f.”

        Violation corrected during visit

  • Jul 17, 20244 citations
    • Citation
      • “Caregivers did not document compliance with visually checking on sleeping infants aged 12 months or younger and/or the documents were not maintained for a minimum of one month. Three (3) infants were in their crib, one was sleeping, nothing was documented on the safe sleep chart. When I asked how long the infant had been sleeping, the teacher stated since 10:00, it was 10:46. She stated the other infant just woke up and had been sleeping for about an hour. She stated that the third infant had just been put in the crib.”

        Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 7/31/2024

    • Citation
      • “All staff, including the director, did not have an annual health questionnaire on file following the initial medical statement. Staff did not have current health questionnaires on file.”

        Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 7/31/2024

    • Citation
      • “All staff did not review the center's EPR Plan during orientation and/or on an annual basis with the trained staff. Documentation of the review was not maintained on file. The EPR plan was completed, but had not been reviewed with the staff.”

        Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 7/31/2024

    • Citation
      • “The child care administrator and all staff did not complete the Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. Two (2) staff did not complete Child Maltreatment within the first 90 days.”

        Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 7/31/2024

  • Apr 11, 20242 citations
    • Citation
      • “Caregivers did not document compliance with visually checking on sleeping infants aged 12 months or younger and/or the documents were not maintained for a minimum of one month. One (1) infant was lying awake in a crib, the staff member stated the infant had just woken up. The Safe Sleep Chart had last been documented at 9:45, it was now 10:20 and nothing else had been documented.”

        Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 4/18/2024

    • Citation
      • “Each new employee did not complete, within the first two weeks of employment, six clock hours of training in required topic areas. An employee who started employment March 19, 2024 did not have documented that the required orientation had been completed.”

        Violation corrected during visit

  • Mar 11, 20241 citation
    • Citation
      • “The center's safe sleep policy was not posted in a prominent place in the infant room where parents and caregivers were able to view daily. The center did not have a developed ITS-SIDS policy posted in the infant room. In the older infant space, not in use, there was a sample ITS SIDS policy that was not customized.”

        Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 3/18/2024

The state cited rules at all 7 of this center's inspections. Most Charlotte-area centers inspected 7 times had fewer: 98% of 86.

How all 86 Charlotte-area centers inspected 7 times compare

Of the 86 Charlotte-area centers the state inspected 7 times, how many of those inspections cited a rule:

  • None5%
  • 1 of 78%
  • 2 of 73%
  • 3 of 719%
  • 4 of 721%
  • 5 of 726%
  • 6 of 716%
  • All 72%This center
Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — North Carolina DCDEE

Last visit
February 23, 2026
On file
7 visits since March 2024 — all of them cited findings
Fixed?
All 21 record a correction, in the licensor’s own words.
Most serious
North Carolina DCDEE does not publish a severity level for a citation, so there is no most-serious to name.

North Carolina DCDEE describes every citation in the licensor’s own words and records the correction in that same text — the only one of the six states that publishes whether a violation was fixed. It attaches no rule number and no report document.

Feb 2026 Unannounced visit 5 findings

Unannounced visit · February 23, 2026

A current activity plan was not posted for each group of children for reference. A current lesson plan was not posted in space #2 or #3. The lesson plan posted in space #1 was not dated.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 2/23/2026

Toys and other mouth-contact surfaces were not cleaned and sanitized daily when used or cleaned more frequently if visibly dirty. A dirty toy bin was not present in space #3 nor were there any identified mouthed toys removed from the environment.

Violation corrected during visit

Equipment and furnishings not meeting the requirements outlined in child care .0601(b) and (c) were not removed or made inaccessible. Books were monitored in poor condition in spaces #2 and #3.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 2/23/2026

A child care operator did not notify the Division of any new child care providers, as defined in G.S. 110-90.2(a)(2), who were hired or moved into the child care facility within five business days. One staff member hired in December 2025, was not linked to the facility in the ABCMS.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 2/23/2026

The depth of the loose surfacing was not based on critical height of the equipment. The protective surfacing did not measure at least six inches in depth was compacted.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 3/11/2026

DCDEE facility lookup On that page, enter license number 60004323 in the License Number box, choose Search and open the result; the record is listed under Visits.

Oct 2025 Unannounced visit 3 findings

Unannounced visit · October 23, 2025

Equipment and furnishings not meeting the requirements outlined in child care .0601(b) and (c) were not removed or made inaccessible. At least three books were monitored in poor repair in space #2.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 10/23/2025

The EPR Plan did not include the location of the Ready to Go File and or the required information. The monitored RTGF was not current with each child's emergency contact information, or allergy information. There were two children whose required information was not maintained in the file.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 10/23/2025

The depth of the loose surfacing was not based on critical height of the equipment. The mulch/fall zone at the base of the yellow slide didn't meet six inches in depth.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 10/27/2025

DCDEE facility lookup On that page, enter license number 60004323 in the License Number box, choose Search and open the result; the record is listed under Visits.

Mar 2025 Unannounced visit 3 findings

Unannounced visit · March 5, 2025

Equipment and furnishings not meeting the requirements outlined in child care .0601(b) and (c) were not removed or made inaccessible. A plastic flower on a Little Tykes Tree house was monitored broken off, leaving the green plastic stem protruding.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 3/6/2025

All equipment and furnishings were not in good repair. The white fence slat was monitored boding over by overgrown vines and weeds pushing up against the fence.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 3/18/2025

Staff did not complete the health and safety training within one year of employment. Three existing staff were required to complete H & S training by March 1, 2025.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 3/19/2025

DCDEE facility lookup On that page, enter license number 60004323 in the License Number box, choose Search and open the result; the record is listed under Visits.

Jan 2025 Unannounced visit 3 findings

Unannounced visit · January 8, 2025

Incident reports were not completed each time a child was injured, it did not include all the information required in rule, it was not signed by the parent and/or it was not maintained in the child's file. Various completed incident reports were not filed in the applicable child's file. They were maintained in the incident log binder instead.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 1/10/2025

Incident logs were not completed and maintained as required. An incident report completed and signed on 11/13/2024 was not monitored logged onto the center's incident log. Ms. D. added the missing incident to the log during the visit.

Violation corrected during visit

The temperature in a room where infants aged 12 months or younger where sleeping exceeded 75 degrees. The infant room/Space #1 temperature was monitored at 79f instead of maintaining at 75f or under. The temperature was manually altered by the caregiver during the visit and the temperature was later monitored at 75f.

Violation corrected during visit

DCDEE facility lookup On that page, enter license number 60004323 in the License Number box, choose Search and open the result; the record is listed under Visits.

Jul 2024 Unannounced visit 4 findings

Unannounced visit · July 17, 2024

Caregivers did not document compliance with visually checking on sleeping infants aged 12 months or younger and/or the documents were not maintained for a minimum of one month. Three (3) infants were in their crib, one was sleeping, nothing was documented on the safe sleep chart. When I asked how long the infant had been sleeping, the teacher stated since 10:00, it was 10:46. She stated the other infant just woke up and had been sleeping for about an hour. She stated that the third infant had just been put in the crib.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 7/31/2024

All staff, including the director, did not have an annual health questionnaire on file following the initial medical statement. Staff did not have current health questionnaires on file.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 7/31/2024

All staff did not review the center's EPR Plan during orientation and/or on an annual basis with the trained staff. Documentation of the review was not maintained on file. The EPR plan was completed, but had not been reviewed with the staff.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 7/31/2024

The child care administrator and all staff did not complete the Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training within 90 days of employment. Two (2) staff did not complete Child Maltreatment within the first 90 days.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 7/31/2024

DCDEE facility lookup On that page, enter license number 60004323 in the License Number box, choose Search and open the result; the record is listed under Visits.

Apr 2024 Unannounced visit 2 findings

Unannounced visit · April 11, 2024

Caregivers did not document compliance with visually checking on sleeping infants aged 12 months or younger and/or the documents were not maintained for a minimum of one month. One (1) infant was lying awake in a crib, the staff member stated the infant had just woken up. The Safe Sleep Chart had last been documented at 9:45, it was now 10:20 and nothing else had been documented.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 4/18/2024

Each new employee did not complete, within the first two weeks of employment, six clock hours of training in required topic areas. An employee who started employment March 19, 2024 did not have documented that the required orientation had been completed.

Violation corrected during visit

DCDEE facility lookup On that page, enter license number 60004323 in the License Number box, choose Search and open the result; the record is listed under Visits.

Mar 2024 Unannounced visit 1 finding

Unannounced visit · March 11, 2024

The center's safe sleep policy was not posted in a prominent place in the infant room where parents and caregivers were able to view daily. The center did not have a developed ITS-SIDS policy posted in the infant room. In the older infant space, not in use, there was a sample ITS SIDS policy that was not customized.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 3/18/2024

DCDEE facility lookup On that page, enter license number 60004323 in the License Number box, choose Search and open the result; the record is listed under Visits.

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Details

Phone
(704) 379-0459
Address
2301 Commonwealth Avenue, Charlotte, 28205
License
60004323
Quality program
Five Star License

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State record

From North Carolina DCDEE’s published reports, last checked November 8, 2026.

Details

  • Phone, Address, License, Quality program — Checked July 2026 ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov. To check it, open ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/childcaresearch, enter licence 60004323 under License Number, and open the result.
  • Who runs it — Checked October 2026 ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov. To check it, open ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/childcaresearch, enter licence 60004323 under License Number, open the result and expand Owner Information: the licensee is listed as Primary Owner.

Small means the smallest quarter of Charlotte-area’s 605 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 11 to 50 children. Medium is 51 to 162; large is 163 to 528.

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