Redwood City · Licensed center

Footsteps @ Redwood Creek

A play-based center in Redwood City, licensed for 18 children. Run by a nonprofit. A board oversees it, and there are no owners taking profit. The state cited something at 0 of 4 routine visits (Bay Area centers: about 1 in 4).

Who runs it: from ccld.dss.ca.gov.

How they teach

Play-based

“Footsteps Child Care’s philosophy and approach is based on research and best practices, which includes play- based curriculum, child, teacher, and family-initiated experiences, continuity of care and consistency in routines.”In their words. footstepschildcare.org, July 2026

One of 82 Bay Area providers that describe a play-based approach, out of 164 that describe any approach at all.

Who cares for your child

One adult for every three infants

Shortlist has not yet sourced this state’s legal ratio limit, so there is nothing to set this beside yet.

One adult for every four toddlers. Shortlist has not yet sourced this state’s legal ratio limit, so there is nothing to set this beside yet.

One adult for every eight preschoolers. Shortlist has not yet sourced this state’s legal ratio limit, so there is nothing to set this beside yet.

One staff is named on their site, with no start year given.

What it costs

Application fee $75. Deposit $500, refundable. Sibling discount: 5% sibling discount, per child, for families enrolling two or more children.

Shortlist doesn’t have these yet: cost.

What the state has found

Routine visits: 0 of 4 cited something

Across Bay Area centers, the state cites something at about 1 in 4 routine visits (2,260 visits).

From California CDSS Community Care Licensing’s published reports, last checked September 25, 2026.

Read every record and the state’s reports

State record — California CDSS Community Care Licensing

Last visit
August 27, 2026
On file
4 visits since June 2022 — all of them cited nothing · 1 complaint investigation
Most serious
Type B — 101216.1: Teacher Qualifications and Duties: " (c) To be a fully qualified teacher, a teacher shall have one of the following: (1) Twelve post-secondary semester or equivalent quarter units in early childhood education or child development completed, with passing grades...(A) The units specified in (c)(1) above shall include courses...of child growth and development, or human growth and development; child, family and community, or child and family; and program/curriculum." This requirement is not met by evidence by: Based on interview, and record review, the facility did not comply with the section cited above as there is unqualfied staff supervising children. This poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care. · July 14, 2026

California CDSS publishes the full investigation narrative for a complaint, including its disposition, and classifies a citation Type A — an immediate risk to a child — or Type B.

Aug 2026 Licensing visit nothing cited
May 2026 Complaint

Complaint · May 11, 2026

CCR 101216.1(c)(1)(A) · Type B

101216.1: Teacher Qualifications and Duties: " (c) To be a fully qualified teacher, a teacher shall have one of the following: (1) Twelve post-secondary semester or equivalent quarter units in early childhood education or child development completed, with passing grades...(A) The units specified in (c)(1) above shall include courses...of child growth and development, or human growth and development; child, family and community, or child and family; and program/curriculum." This requirement is not met by evidence by: Based on interview, and record review, the facility did not comply with the section cited above as there is unqualfied staff supervising children. This poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.

State report

Nov 2025 Licensing visit nothing cited
Jan 2024 Licensing visit nothing cited
Jun 2022 Licensing visit nothing cited

A day here

Meals
Infants: family-provided food for all meals; Toddlers: family food labeled, plus snacks and Vitamin D/whole or soy milk provided twice daily; Preschool: family-provided lunch or provider food-service option; CCTR/CSPP participants get both snack and lunch provided
Sleep
Infants sleep as needed in own cribs in a separate sleep area; Toddlers nap on a cot up to 2.5 hours/day (one nap); Preschool & Pre-K nap daily up to 2 hours/day
Diapers
Provider supplies diapers, pull-ups, and wipes unless a parent requests a specific type (e.g. cloth diapers)
Updates for parents
Procare Connect app (plus email, text, or site telephone)
Hours
7:45 AM to 5:30 PM, 5 days a week, year round
Schedule
full-day
Closed
Closed federal holidays and part of winter break

Policies

When a child is sick
Must be fever-free for 24 hours (without fever-reducing medication) before returning; fever defined as 100.4°F/38°C or higher

Details

Phone
(650) 362-3132
Website
footstepschildcare.org
Address
715 Bradford Street
License
414004780, active
Ages
6 weeks – 24 months (Infant/Toddler) and 2.0 years–entering TK/Kindergarten (Preschool)
Established
1994

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What it costs

State record

Every state visit and complaint on file, shown in full and never edited. Open a date to read what the state wrote.

A day here

  • Meals, Sleep, Diapers, Updates for parents, Hours, Calendar, Schedule, Closed — Checked July 2026 · footstepschildcare.org

Policies

Details