Lakewood · Licensed center

Daniel's Head Start

What the state has found

The state lists 3 visits below. Shortlist has not read the reports behind them, so there is no share of visits that cited something to set beside other providers yet.

State record — Colorado Department of Early Childhood

Last visit
October 6, 2026
On file
3 visits since October 2025
Fixed?
Correction was due August 25, 2026. Colorado Department of Early Childhood does not publish whether it was made.
Most serious
Colorado Department of Early Childhood does not publish a severity level for a citation, so there is no most-serious to name.

Colorado’s Department of Early Childhood lists each program’s complaints on its Colorado Shines page, with the department’s verdict on each and a report behind it, going back about three years. Older complaints are released only on request. The department does not rank complaints by severity in either place.

Oct 2026 Limited Supervisory visit report not read State records file
Aug 2026 Supervisory visit 2 findings

Supervisory visit · August 25, 2026

2.229.L · Correction due August 25, 2026

A box of small pom poms and box of unifix cubes, accessible to children, in boxes on lower shelves. All items pose a potential choking hazard. Staff reported that children under age 3 were present in the classroom at the time of inspection.

Required correction: Toys, toy parts and any materials accessible to children under age 3 must not pose a choking hazard. Correct by 8/25/26. Staff removed the chokable items (unifix cubes and small pom poms) to a locked closet area while the Licensing Specialist was present. Corrected at the time of inspection. No response necessary. Correct by 08/25/2026

Licensing Specialist reviewed 4 staff files and observed 3 staff members to be lacking documentation of a medical statement.

State records file

Oct 2025 Original-Change of Owner visit report not read State records file

Where this record comes from

The Department of Early Childhood keeps about three years of complaints on a program’s public page. Anything older is released only on request, as a single file covering the whole state. Shortlist asked for that file under the Colorado Open Records Act and renews it yearly; it is what this page shows for complaints older than the department’s own window.

The file this page is built from arrived on October 10, 2026 and covers complaints the department publishes today, and complaints back to January 2023 obtained by records request. The next request goes in October 2027.

The department publishes a report for each of these visits. Shortlist has not read those reports yet, so this page shows when the state came and not what it found.

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Details

Address
1301 Union St.
License
1790003, active
Ownership
Government-run

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Details

Small means the smallest quarter of Denver-area’s 1,147 licensed centers by state-licensed capacity: 10 to 40 children. Medium is 41 to 114; large is 115 to 402.