Kings Mountain · Licensed family home
Brown's Little Shepherds
- Larger family home, licensed for up to 10 children.
- Shortlist has found no website for it yet.
What the state has found
The state cited rules at 2 of its 6 licensing inspections since October 2023.
Of the 34 Charlotte-area family homes with 6 licensing inspections, 18% had rules cited at 2 of them, as this home did. 3% had rules cited at all 6, 3% at none.
Licensing inspections
Oct 23, 20251 citation
“Operator and/or staff who work with children, did not complete health and safety training as part of on-going training so that every five years, all the topic areas were covered. The receipt of completion of the Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training was not on file and available for review.”
Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 11/5/2025
Oct 12, 20232 citations
“Copy of each child's health assessment, including the operator's own preschool child(ren), was not on file within 30 days of enrollment. One child, enrolled on 3/25/23, did not have a health assessment on file.”
Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 10/31/2023
“Vehicle used for transportation did not have a fire extinguisher. The vehicle used to transport children did not have a fire extinguisher.”
Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 10/25/2023
Read every record and the state’s reports
State record — North Carolina DCDEE
- Last visit
- September 16, 2026
- On file
- 6 visits since October 2023 — 4 cited nothing, 4 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.
Oct 2025 Unannounced visit 1 finding
Unannounced visit · October 23, 2025
Operator and/or staff who work with children, did not complete health and safety training as part of on-going training so that every five years, all the topic areas were covered. The receipt of completion of the Recognizing and Responding to Suspicions of Child Maltreatment training was not on file and available for review.
Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 11/5/2025
DCDEE facility lookup On that page, enter license number 36000199 in the License Number box, choose Search and open the result; the record is listed under Visits.
Oct 2023 Unannounced visit 2 findings
Unannounced visit · October 12, 2023
Copy of each child's health assessment, including the operator's own preschool child(ren), was not on file within 30 days of enrollment. One child, enrolled on 3/25/23, did not have a health assessment on file.
Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 10/31/2023
Vehicle used for transportation did not have a fire extinguisher. The vehicle used to transport children did not have a fire extinguisher.
Violation confirmed corrected by letter received from provider on 10/25/2023
DCDEE facility lookup On that page, enter license number 36000199 in the License Number box, choose Search and open the result; the record is listed under Visits.
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Openings, child care subsidies, cost, hours and late pickup, teaching approach, ratios and staff, a typical day, and sick and biting policies aren’t on this page.
Details
- Address
- 849 Mountain Crest Drive
- License
- 36000199, active
- Quality program
- Five Star License
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All checked July 2026.
State record
From North Carolina DCDEE’s published reports, last checked October 10, 2026.
Details
- Phone, Address, License, Quality program ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov. To check it, open ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/childcaresearch, enter licence 36000199 under License Number, and open the result.
Larger means licensed for 9 to 10 children, among Charlotte-area’s 137 licensed family homes by state-licensed capacity. Small is 5 to 7; mid-size is 8.