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Transparency scorecard

Washington

Grade A

93/100 points · Ranked #2 of 51 jurisdictions. Agency: Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families.

Score breakdown

Record depth
About 9 years of inspection history publicly retrievable.
25/25
Downloadable data
Bulk export, open data, or equivalent machine-readable dump available.
20/20
Severity levels
State assigns an explicit per-violation or per-visit severity/risk tier.
15/15
Complaints published
Complaint records with dispositions (1,743 on file).
15/15
% with any inspection
49.8% of providers have at least one inspection on file (3,592 of 7,211).
8/15
Access friction
No CAPTCHA, IP block, or auth wall on the primary public records path.
10/10

Socrata roster plus Child Care Check history with severity and valid complaints.

What this grade means

Does well: Open roster, severity tiers, and published valid complaints.

See the dimension evidence above and the national rubric for how points were assigned.

Browse Washington providers on KinderFax. Official portal: Child Care Check. Download the national CSV: transparency-scorecard.csv.