Guide
They ask for today first.
A licensing visit is not impressed by a polished binder from last year if the toddler room is over ratio while you are looking for it.
Have these in reach
- The posted license and the ratio for each room that is open
- Who is in each room right now, and which staff are with them
- Staff files: qualifications, background checks, and the trainings your state counts
- Children's files, including pickup, health, and allergies
- Attendance for the recent period your rule names, with real times if you bill subsidy
- Incident reports that are finished
- Drill logs
- Meal records if you are on CACFP
- The quality-rating binder, only if that is what this visit is
The quality rating is a second visit
Directors get hurt by bringing Step Up to Quality, ExceleRate, Keystone STARS, or whatever their state calls it, to a visit that asked for supervision. They are related and they are not the same hour. Ask which one is standing in the lobby.
Honeyfold does not replace the visit and does not know your specialist. It keeps today's count and the files in a shape a person can open. The rest is the program you actually run.
Start with your state's office. Names were checked in November 2026 and offices rename themselves.