Daycare Safety RecordState inspection files for licensed child care, presented plainly

Texas child care records

Child care in Texas is regulated by Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child Care Regulation. The state licenses or registers operations, visits them — routinely and unannounced — and records what it finds. This page explains how that system works and links to every published record.

Records presented as of November 5, 2026

The kinds of operations

Licensed Center
A child care facility licensed by the state, inspected routinely and without announcement. Full records, including the street address, are published here.
Licensed Child-Care Home
A licensed home caring for up to 12 children. Homes in this tier hold a full permit and are inspected on the same unannounced basis as centers; their full records are published here.
Registered Child-Care Home
A registered home, also caring for up to 12 children, under a lighter registration tier. Because these operations are private residences, this site publishes the operation’s name, city, and record counts and dates — not its street address.

The state also lists smaller family homes and residential programs. Those are not operations parents choose as child care in the ordinary sense, and they are not published on this site.

The three kinds of visits in a record

Inspection
A licensing visit — scheduled for some purposes, unannounced for monitoring — at which inspectors evaluate the operation against the state’s minimum standards.
Report
A visit that begins with a report — a complaint, an incident, or the operation’s own self-report — and records what the investigation found. A report in a record is not itself a finding against the operation; the record shows whether a violation was found.
Assessment
A focused review of particular standards or areas of an operation’s compliance.

What a citation means

When an inspector finds that a standard was not met, the finding is recorded as a citation: the numbered standard, a risk level in the state’s own wording — High, Medium High, Medium, Medium Low, or Low — and a short narrative of what the inspector observed. Most citations are corrected, and where the state has verified a correction, the record here shows the verified date. A finding that is still marked pending in the state’s records is shown as pending here — not as a violation and not as a clearance.

The Texas record in numbers

Operations published12,930
Inspections, reports, and assessments156,263
Standards evaluated across those visits44,174,881
Citations recorded116,671
Findings still pending749

Citations by the state’s risk levels

High28,640
Medium High48,991
Medium33,564
Medium Low3,887
Low1,589

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