Safety & records · Arizona
Reading a daycare's record in Arizona
Arizona publishes inspection records through AZ CareCheck (ADHS Public Health Licensing). This page walks you to the record, decodes its vocabulary from the state's own definitions, and states what the archive cannot tell you. We never name, rate, or score a center.
First, the money
Records are half the decision. The other half is whether you can get help paying — run the free check for Arizona before you fall in love with a center you cannot fund.
The portal
AZ CareCheck (ADHS Public Health Licensing)
Licensing history, Statements of Deficiencies, complaint investigations, enforcement actions, and the Written Documentation of Correction — the public file holds surveys and corrections for the past 3 years.
What this portal does not show
Each report is a one-time snapshot, and only deficiencies are listed — regulations the provider met are not shown, so a short report does not list everything that was checked.
How Arizona grades what it finds
Deficiencies are graded by scope and severity, from isolated/no harm up to widespread/immediate jeopardy, citing AAC Title 9 Ch. 5 (R9-5).
Words like these are decoded, term by term, in the records decoder — always from the state's own published definitions, and always with the correction status given the same weight as the finding.
If you need to report something
ADHS Office of Child Care Licensing — complaint by phone, email, mail, fax, or in person to the surveyor on duty.
Read any record in this order
- The license status first — active, conditional, or under action.
- The findings, newest to oldest, watching for the same rule cited twice.
- The correction status on each finding — corrected, corrected on site, plan accepted, or still open. It carries the same weight as the finding.
- The blind spots above: what this archive structurally cannot show you.
Portal facts checked October 2026. Only the state agency's record is the record — this page is a map to it, not a copy of it.