Daycare Center Accident Report

Running a daycare center comes with the responsibility of keeping children safe—and when accidents happen, you need a clear, thorough way to document what occurred, assess the injury, notify parents and meet licensing requirements. This Daycare Center Accident Report template is built for childcare providers who need a professional, compliant system for recording incidents quickly and accurately.

Whether it's a scraped knee on the playground, a bump during playtime, or a more serious injury requiring medical attention, this form walks your staff through every step: capturing witness accounts, documenting the type and severity of the injury, logging parent contact and response, and flagging whether the incident requires notification to your state or local licensing authority.

Paperform makes it easy to collect signatures from staff and parents right inside the form, create conditional fields that adjust based on injury severity, and automatically route completed reports to directors, insurers or compliance officers. You can embed the form on staff tablets, access it from any device during an emergency, and store every submission securely in one place with full audit trails.

For daycare centers looking to streamline compliance and parent communication, this template pairs perfectly with Papersign for follow-up consent forms or incident acknowledgments, and Stepper to automate workflows like emailing the licensing board, logging incidents in your management system, or triggering follow-up check-ins with parents the next day.

Whether you're a single-location center or managing multiple sites, this template helps you respond quickly, document thoroughly, and maintain the trust of the families you serve.