Minnesota licensed child care centers and family child care (state directory)
Minnesota · Child care inspections
- Published by
- Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) licensing; published by Minnesota IT Services Geospatial Information Office (MnGeo)
- Official source
- What's covered
- Every licensed child care center, certified child care center and family child care home in Minnesota, from the state licensing extract.
- How often we sync
- Weekly on Sunday morning (Central); the state refreshes the layer periodically.
- Last complete sync
- Records
- 7,814 programs
- 5,420 home programs shown without name or address
- 0 enforcement statuses
- 0 no longer listed
- How we get it
- Public API (ArcGIS FeatureServer on the Minnesota Geospatial Commons), read in full with object-id paging; verified against the layer's own count before and after.
- Terms
- Published on the Minnesota Geospatial Commons under the DHS licensing data terms (the terms page sits behind a bot check and was not read). For family child care the license holder's name and home address are not collected.
- Attribution
- Source: Minnesota DCYF / DHS licensing, via the Minnesota Geospatial Commons.
Known gaps
- Visits, correction orders, licensing actions and maltreatment determinations are only on the Licensing Information Lookup, which sits behind a bot check and is not read. No Minnesota program is shown as having a clean record. A Data Practices Act request to DCYF for a bulk extract is drafted.
- The layer has no county, license dates or capacity; family child care homes are shown by city and ZIP only.
- Parent Aware ratings are not included (no bulk source found).
How violation severity is mapped
Every cited violation is filed as serious, non-serious or unknown. Unknown is never counted as a clean record.
| The source says | We file it as | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Any Minnesota program (directory only) | unknown | Directory only: no visits or violations are published in bulk, so every program is 'not assessed' and never counted as clean. |
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