DSHS Department of Early Learning Website - What You Won't Find

Child Care & Preschool Options - About Licensed Child Care - Child Care Check - Department of Early Learning


When you go to check out a child day care provider on the Department of Early Learning's (DEL) formerly with DSHS, website you won't find:

1) you won't find violations of law and regulations witnessed at a particular day care

2) you won't find day care providers whose licenses were just suspended or revoked

3)  you won't find complaint referrals made on a day care

4) you won't find how to make a complaint on a day care facility, for example, a link to the licensing regulations

5) you won't find any founded CPS (child protective service) reports (and yes, DEL has allowed folks with founded CPS allegations keep their licenses)

6) you won't be informed that in calling child care resource and referrals numbers looking for day care, that agency has no records on the history of
day care provider they are referring you to

7) you won't find, even though a law was passed in 2007, all the licenses that were revoked and denied, and yes, some of them continue to do care after their licenses were revoked and/or denied

8) you won't find valid complaints before July 2005, and, yes, there can be vital information the public has a right to see

9) you won't find information as to when DEL made monitoring visits and the information that DEL only goes out every 18 months regardless of having knowledge the facility has a history of complaints

10) you won't find information showing you the licensing system to be more pro-day care provider than day care parent even though the law makes the health, safety and well-being of the child paramount over the privilege of a person being granted a license

These factors and more, the day care licensing agency, the Department of Early Learning (DEL) won't be telling you, the parent.

As a former day care licensor and whistle blower on DSHS (and now DEL), an insider for twenty-years with DSHS I put this information out to the public to help in your decision making.

To make the best decisions we all need information and when the government doesn't give us that information then the government is in charge, and not, we, the people as created and established under our Untied States Constitution.