Little Peanuts Childcare, LLC

Home · Charlotte · 8318 Springhead Lane

What kind of place is this?

Size 8 children licensed The same licensed capacity as at least half of Charlotte home daycares, which license 8. Measured across 141 Charlotte home daycares, 2026-08-17.

Who runs it

Ownership For-profit North Carolina DCDEE names a limited company as the licensee, and it is not in the IRS register of tax-exempt organisations. ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov

How this compares

North Carolina DCDEE cited something at 2 of the 9 visits below. Across Charlotte home daycares it cites something at about 44% of visits. Each state decides what gets written up, so this compares Charlotte with Charlotte and never with another state.

Will it fit our family?

Accepts subsidy Yes

What will it cost us?

This provider does not publish pricing.

What Shortlist has verified

State quality rating Four Star License
License status Active

State record — North Carolina DCDEE

Last visit
February 27, 2026
On file
9 visits since January 2024 — 7 cited nothing, 6 of those unannounced
Fixed?
All 3 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 1 finding

Unannounced visit · February 27, 2026

Operator did not complete the required number of on-going training hours as specified in rule. During the program’s last Annual Compliance Visit conducted on March 05, 2025 she, Ms. Thomas, was informed that she would need to complete additional in-service training hours by her anniversary date to maintain compliance, but it was observed during today’s visit that this did not occur. It was also during that same discussion that the provider was made aware that Mr. McClinton would need to complete additional in-service training hours prior to his anniversary date to maintain compliance, but this too did not occur.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 3/8/2026

DCDEE facility lookup

Feb 2026 Unannounced visit nothing cited
Dec 2025 Announced visit nothing cited
Oct 2025 Unannounced visit nothing cited
Mar 2025 Unannounced visit nothing cited
Nov 2024 Unannounced visit nothing cited
Jun 2024 Unannounced visit nothing cited
Apr 2024 Unannounced visit 2 findings

Unannounced visit · April 12, 2024

Safe sleep policy did not contain the required information as indicated in rule .1724(a)(1-12). The facility is licensed to provide care for children birth to twelve years of age and it was observed that the facility’s posted safe sleep policy has not been customized to include all required information.

Violation corrected during visit

The EPR Plan did not include the location of the Ready to Go File and/or required information. The Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan (EPR) and Ready to Go File were reviewed, and it was observed that the Ready to Go File did not contain the most current staff information and has not been updated, as required.

Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 4/13/2024

DCDEE facility lookup

Jan 2024 Unannounced visit nothing cited

Before you tour

Little Peanuts Childcare, LLC hasn’t published

Cost, hours and late pickup, a typical day, sick and biting policies.

Ask which of these findings were serious.North Carolina DCDEE records the correction in its own words, but never says how serious it was.

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What kind of place is this

Not yet reported: established, teaching approach.

Who runs it

Will it fit our family

Not yet reported: ages served, hours, days / week, schedule, holiday closures.

Licensing and contact

State record

Every state visit and complaint on file, shown in full and never edited. Open a date to read what the state wrote.

Do you run Little Peanuts Childcare, LLC? Shortlist has no tuition, hours or ratios for it, because the state does not publish that. Add what is missing. It is free and takes about ten minutes.