Texas child care inspection records

CCR conducts unannounced inspections at licensed operations at least once per year and conducts unannounced inspections at registered child care homes at least once every two years. Inspections might be more frequent based on an operation's ability to comply with statutes, administrative rules and minimum standards.

Each minimum standard is assigned a weight of high, medium high, medium, medium low and low based on the risk a violation of the minimum standard presents to children. A requirement weighted as high presents a greater risk to children if violated than a requirement weighted as low.

A self report is an account of a serious incident that happened at an operation. All operations, except listed family homes, are required to report certain types of serious incidents to CCR, which chooses to investigate an operation’s self-report and, if applicable, cite a deficiency of statutes, administrative rules or minimum standards. A serious incident includes but is not limited to a serious illness or injury to a child, a missing child or a disaster that requires the operation to close.

A deficiency, also referred to as a violation, is any failure to comply with a CCR statute, administrative rule or minimum standard. A deficiency is posted to the operation’s online record only after it has had the opportunity to dispute it.