Licensing Information
Wildwood Park Discovery School works closely with DCYF to ensure compliance on all activities associated with our programs. We are classified under exempt and follow applicable local family/ residential childcare laws and city/state laws as DCYF does not oversee our direct licensing due to our exemption.
Wildwood Park Discovery School maintains:
Current Clean Background Checks
CPR/First Aid/AED Certifications
King County Food Handlers Permit
Bloodborne Pathogen Certifications
Current City/State Business Licensing
Following of Applicable Family Home Childcare Licensing Laws and Exemptions
Wildwood Park Discovery School LLC
UBI: 604-730-506
EIN: 99-0385905
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Who is classified as EXEMPT from DCYF Childcare licensing?
EXAMPLE: Friends, Family, or Neighbors providing childcare:
Persons related to the child in the following ways:
Any blood relative, including those of half-blood, and including first cousins, nephews or nieces, and persons of preceding generations as denoted by prefixes of grand, great, or great-great;
Stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, and stepsister;
A person who legally adopts a child or the child's parent as well as the natural and other legally adopted children of such persons, and other relatives of the adoptive parents in accordance with state law; or
Spouses of any persons named in (a)(i), (ii), or (iii) of this subsection, even after the marriage is terminated;
Persons who are legal guardians of the child;
Persons who care for a neighbor's or friend's child or children, with or without compensation, where the person providing care for periods of less than twenty-four hours does not conduct such activity on an ongoing, regularly scheduled basis for the purpose of engaging in business, which includes, but is not limited to, advertising such care;
Parents on a mutually cooperative basis exchange care of one another's children;
EXAMPLE: Private Preschool Programs that operate for no more than 4 hours per day for ages 30 months - 6 years old:
Nursery schools that are engaged primarily in early childhood education with preschool children and in which no child is enrolled on a regular basis for more than four hours per day;
EXAMPLE: Public and Private Schools:
Schools, including boarding schools, that are engaged primarily in education, operate on a definite school year schedule, follow a stated academic curriculum, and accept only school age children;
EXAMPLE: Summer or School Break Camps that operate for up to 12 weeks in a calendar year:
Seasonal camps of three months' or less duration engaged primarily in recreational or educational activities;
EXAMPLE: Church Childcare Programs, Grocery Store Childcare, Hospital Childcare, Gym Childcare, Co-Op Programs, Community Center Classes:
Facilities providing child care for periods of less than twenty-four hours when a parent or legal guardian of the child remains on the premises of the facility for the purpose of participating in:
Activities other than employment; or
Employment of up to two hours per day when the facility is operated by a nonprofit entity that also operates a licensed child care program at the same facility in another location or at another facility;
EXAMPLE: Non Profit or Local Classes, Community Center Classes.
Any entity that provides recreational or educational programming for school age children only and the entity meets all of the following requirements:
The entity utilizes a drop-in model for programming, where children are able to attend during any or all program hours without a formal reservation;
The entity does not assume responsibility in lieu of the parent, unless for coordinated transportation;
The entity is a local affiliate of a national nonprofit; and
The entity is in compliance with all safety and quality standards set by the associated national agency;
EXAMPLE: Government or Tribal operated programs:
A program operated by any unit of local, state, or federal government;
A program located within the boundaries of a federally recognized Indian reservation, licensed by the Indian tribe;
A program located on a federal military reservation, except where the military authorities request that such agency be subject to the licensing requirements of this chapter;
EXAMPLE: Parent Education Classes or Classes where a Parent/Guardian are present with the child for early learning and/or support services:
A program that offers early learning and support services, such as parent education, and does not provide child care services on a regular basis. Wash. Rev. Code § 43.215.010(2).
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