Safety & records · Connecticut
Reading a daycare's record in Connecticut
Connecticut publishes inspection records through 2-1-1 Child Care Search + CT eLicense Lookup. 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 Connecticut before you fall in love with a center you cannot fund.
The portal
2-1-1 Child Care Search + CT eLicense Lookup
Unannounced inspection results, violations for the past 5 years, complaint investigations, self-reported incidents, corrective action plans, and PDFs of the actual inspection documents. eLicense adds license status and substantiated complaint history with resolutions.
How Connecticut grades what it finds
Narrative findings citing Connecticut regulations and statutes, marked substantiated vs. unsubstantiated; 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
OEC Licensing Help Desk at 860-500-4450; abuse and neglect to the Careline at 1-800-842-2288.
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.