Methodology

Where the records come from

Every record on this site comes from the state agency that licenses and inspects child care in that state: in Texas, the Health and Human Services Commission, Child Care Regulation; in Delaware, the Department of Education, Office of Child Care Licensing. Each agency publishes its licensing records for public use, and this site republishes them, organized by operation, city, and county.

The pages here present those records as of November 5, 2026 for Texas and November 5, 2026 for Delaware. This is a dated presentation of the state’s records, not a live register: an operation’s status can change after that date, and the state’s own system is the only place to see its record as of today. Nothing on this site is updated in real time, and no page should be read as the state’s current word on an operation.

How records are presented

Statuses, permit types, and visit types are shown in the state’s own wording, and where a state assigns a risk level, it is shown in the state’s wording too. Citation narratives are the inspector’s words, reproduced as written. Where the state later verified that a cited problem was corrected, the page shows the date the state verified the correction; where a finding is still pending in the state’s records, the page says so and draws no conclusion from it.

This site does not score, grade, rank, or label operations. There are no stars and no verdicts. Counts are counts: the number of visits, the number of citations, and the number of standards evaluated, all shown together so each can be weighed against the others.

What is published, and what is withheld

For licensed centers and licensed child-care homes — commercial operations and fully permitted homes — the published record includes the street address the state itself publishes.

Registered child-care homes are different. They care for children in a private residence under a registration tier, so this site publishes the operation’s name, city, permit facts, and the dates and counts of its record — and withholds the street address. Smaller listed family homes and residential programs are not published here at all.

Delaware licenses three kinds of providers. Licensed child care centers and licensed large family child care homes publish in full, including the street address the state itself publishes. Licensed family child care homes — the small home-based tier — publish the operation’s name, city, permit facts, and the dates and counts of its record, with the street address and citation text withheld.

For every operation, personal contact details — email addresses, phone numbers, mailing addresses — and the names of individual directors or administrators are withheld. These pages are about licensed operations, not about the people who work in them. No page on this site profiles an individual.

As of November 5, 2026, the site publishes records for 12,930 Texas operations, covering 156,263 dated visits and 116,671 citations; as of November 5, 2026, 1,202 Delaware operations, covering 6,180 dated visits and 13,496 citations.

Corrections

If a page here misstates the state’s record, we want to know. The corrections page accepts reports about wrong facts, records that have changed at the source, and any case where an address or detail that should be withheld has appeared. Reports in that last category are treated as the highest priority: the disputed material is pulled first and reviewed second. A correction report can suppress material on this site; it cannot rewrite the state’s record, and neither can we — changes to the underlying record happen only at the agency.

What these records are not

These pages republish a regulator’s records about licensed operations. They are not consumer reports, background checks, or a screening service, and they must not be used to make decisions about any individual. The fuller statement is on the page about what these records are — and are not.