Look up a Washington child care provider's licensing status via DCYF's Child Care Check
domain: findchildcarewa.org · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Use the public search at findchildcarewa.org (DCYF's Child Care Check) to look up a provider by name or location
Review licensing status, complaint history, and Early Achievers (Washington's QRIS) participation on the provider's result page
Check the provider type field since certified-but-license-exempt providers appear alongside fully licensed centers and family homes
Cross-reference with dcyf.wa.gov/services/earlylearning-childcare/child-care-check for the program's official description and scope
Call 866-482-4325 for complaint history not reflected in the online tool, since some records are only available on request
Known gotchas
This is a consumer-facing HTML search tool, not a documented API — programmatic use means parsing result pages, which can break if DCYF changes markup
'Closed,' 'suspended,' and 'revoked' providers are shown with status labels rather than removed outright, so don't assume every result is currently operating
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