Daycare research and violations

Veittobe

I don't know if this is common knowledge or not but it was news to me.  There is a website that you can look up violations at daycare's in MN.  The website can be found at https://licensinglookup.dhs.state.mn.us.  (Sorry, I don't know how to make it clicky).  

I wish I had found this when I was first researching daycare options.  It turns out we really lucked out with our final choice.  Our first choice daycare (which we decided against at the last minute due to finding a lower cost option closer to home) had some big violations this past couple years.  One of them for leaving children unattended (once for as long as 20 minutes!). 

I wish I had known this existed earlier.  It would have saved me so much time to have had access to this information at the beginning of my search.  I hope someone else finds it useful.  I would encourage any new Mom's/Dad's looking for daycare to check it out.  Atleast it offers a better opportunity to know what you're signing up for.  

stephmarie

This is the site we used too. I usually try to link it whenever I respond to daycare posts because being able to see the violations is super helpful in narrowing down the search.

sltommy

Thanks for posting!

BookWorm11

thanks for posting this!

OnederfulWish

Thank you for this helpful website!  Do you know why it doesn't list anything about licensing determinations for home day cares?  All of them are blank.  I know if there was a violation and the daycare was suspended or closed it will be