Safety & records · Kansas
Reading a daycare's record in Kansas
Kansas publishes inspection records through KDHE Child Care Licensing Facility Compliance Search (OIDS). 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 Kansas before you fall in love with a center you cannot fund.
The portal
KDHE Child Care Licensing Facility Compliance Search (OIDS)
Inspection and survey results for the past 3 years: violations only, with the total regulations reviewed vs. total violations per inspection, the survey reason and date, a description per violation, 'corrected at visit' notes, and complaint investigations marked substantiated / investigation complete.
What this portal does not show
Regulations in compliance do not show — only noncompliance is listed, so the report cannot tell you how much was checked and passed.
How Kansas grades what it finds
Citations by K.S.A. and K.A.R. 28-4 rules; narrative, no severity classes.
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
KDHE Child Care Licensing at 785-296-1270 or your local licensing specialist; abuse hotline 1-800-922-5330.
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.