Childcare Compliance &
Operations, in one workspace.
Lighthouse by KidKare is childcare compliance and operations software that watches every credential, renewal, inspection, and follow-up item for you — across one center or two hundred sites.
From KidKare — 30 years and 85,000 childcare organizations behind us.
Too many
moving parts?
Lighthouse tracks every one of them.
Bring scattered readiness work into view.
With Lighthouse, teams can organize documents, forms, tasks, approvals, monitoring, training, and reporting around the way their organization actually works.
See all our solutionsCompliance
Manage policies, forms, review cycles, and approvals without chasing files across binders, folders, or shared drives — so the current version is never in question.
Accountability
Turn requests, reviews, reminders, and open items into trackable work — so nothing sits open without an owner.
Safety
Connect inspections, incidents, root cause, and corrective actions — so every incident closes with documented proof.
Workforce
Track staff files, training, expirations, and requirements across teams — so no one works a shift on an expired credential.
Funding
Manage budgets, grants, vendors, contractors, and purchasing workflows — so every dollar is documented before the auditor asks.
Child & Family Records
Organize child, guardian, classroom, medication, restriction, and survey details — so the right detail is there in the moment it matters.
See every site without visiting one.
Give each role the right view across facilities, teams, dashboards, and reports.
Childcare compliance, fully accounted for.
Set it up the way you already work.
Your renewal steps, your review chain, your approval order. Lighthouse bends to your process instead of asking your staff to learn a new one.
Answer “who, when, and why” in one click.
Every document carries its own history: who approved it, when it changed, what version the reviewer saw. Audit questions stop being research projects.
Nothing expires without a warning.
Every license, credential, and inspection date is watched and flagged before it lapses — not discovered during an audit.
See every site at once.
See where work stands across programs, sites, and teams — and know what needs attention next.
Built for how your
organization actually runs.
Keep center operations organized beyond the classroom.
Track inquiries, tours, waitlists, enrollments, and withdrawals.
Keep medical notes, medications, restrictions, guardian details, and classroom records connected.
Assign training, track completion, and keep staff records current.
Organize policies, fire inspections, insurance, emergency plans, and licensing files.
Track P&L, grant status, procurement, vendors, and required reporting.
See what needs attention across every location.
See missing records, overdue reviews, open incidents, training gaps, and follow-up needs across locations.
Create consistent processes for documentation, reviews, approvals, and corrective actions while still allowing each site to manage its own details.
Assign owners, due dates, statuses, and next steps so work does not disappear into email threads or manual reminders.
Give leadership, regional teams, directors, and admins the level of visibility they need across sites, teams, and responsibilities.
Configure program workflows for complex oversight.
Collect forms, documents, and required paperwork online for licensing, CACFP, grants, and renewals.
Organize required policies, trainings, checklists, and program materials in one workspace.
See what is submitted, missing, under review, returned for correction, approved, or still waiting on action.
Track documentation, review workflows, corrective actions, and training completion across programs.
Share, link, or embed configured application workflows from the state website to reduce back-and-forth.
The KidKare
ecosystem advantage
Great work doesn’t happen alone. Learn more about our whole KidKare ecosystem that eliminates silos and unifies data.
Documentation, monitoring, applications, onboarding, training, corrective actions, and multi-site oversight — across the whole network.
Lighthouse brings it all
into one workspace.
Your whole network stays connected.
Your compliance stays on track.
Your data stays in one place.
Join 85,000 childcare organizations already using on KidKare.
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