DaycareList lists 415 child care operations in Fort Worth, including 251 licensed centers and 164 home-based operations, spread across 33 ZIP codes. Most operations in the city are located in Denton, Parker, Tarrant County. State inspection records covering 2023-10-10 through 2026-10-10 show 1,915 citations at all operation types in Fort Worth. 196 licensed centers had at least one citation in that window, and 55 licensed centers had none. The citations include 529 High-risk, 725 Medium High-risk, 574 Medium-risk, 65 Medium Low-risk, and 22 Low-risk citations; the standards cited most often in the city's centers and homes are explained below.
Provider totals and citation counts include all providers, including providers omitted from listings for personal-name privacy or suppression requests.
Citations dated October 10, 2023 to October 10, 2026.
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Read the citations listed for the operation, noting the risk weight assigned to each standard and whether the citation was corrected at the inspection.
Read the narrative in each citation record to see what the inspector found.
Compare the dates of inspections and citations over the years covered by the state records.
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Reading records
deficiency (citation)
A finding that a minimum standard was not met during an inspection, investigation, or assessment.
risk levels
HHSC assigns each standard a risk weight of High, Medium High, Medium, Medium Low, or Low.
corrected at inspection
A citation record may show whether the deficiency was fixed at the time of the inspection.
correction date
The date shown on a citation record for when the correction was made.
correction verified
A citation record may show a date the correction was verified.
technical assistance
A citation record may show whether technical assistance was given.
inspection vs investigation vs assessment
Records published by the state include inspections, investigations, and assessments, along with the deficiencies cited during them.
three-year window
The period DaycareList uses when counting citations in its provider summaries. The state online records cover about the last five years.
minimum standards
The rules operations must follow. For centers they are in Texas Administrative Code Title 26, Chapter 746; for licensed and registered homes, Chapter 747. The governing statute is Texas Human Resources Code Chapter 42.
This standard covers keeping each child supervised, meaning an adult stays physically close and can see or hear what each child is doing. Narratives in the records describe a child left alone in a classroom during a transition, a child left behind after coming in from the playground, children going in and out of a restroom door without adult awareness, and a child who remained outside after caregivers did not account for all children.
This standard covers the responsibilities of employees and caregivers to show competency, sound judgment, and self-control in their work with children. Recent citations in Fort Worth describe a transition when children were not accounted for and operation procedures were not followed, a snack sent to the wrong room for a child with a food allergy restriction, and a caregiver who restrained a child in a chair and pulled the child up by one arm.
This standard covers having a current immunization record on file for each child. Recent citations in Fort Worth describe child records reviewed at inspections that did not have up-to-date immunization records available.
This standard covers having a health statement, such as a physician's statement, in each child's file. Recent citations in Fort Worth describe child records reviewed at inspections that were missing a health statement.
This standard covers the rule against using grabbing and pulling as punishment. Recent citations in Fort Worth describe caregivers lifting a child off the floor by one arm and grabbing children, including a caregiver seen on video pulling a child by the arms in a way that left bruises on the child's arms.
This standard covers receiving background check results before a person may be present at the operation. Recent citations in Fort Worth describe a caregiver in the infant classroom without an active background check, an employee with a pending background check who had access to children, and a staff member without an active background check on file.
This standard covers keeping each child supervised, with an adult physically close and aware of each child's ongoing activity through sight or hearing. Recent citations in Fort Worth describe a child allowed to return inside alone to use the restroom, a caregiver without auditory or visual awareness of children on the playground when a child was injured, and a child left unsupervised outside.
This standard covers reporting to Child Care Regulation any situation that may place a child at risk. Recent citations in Fort Worth describe operations that did not report an incident involving a caregiver grabbing a child's arm and did not report other situations that may have placed a child at risk.
This guide's text was drafted automatically, checked against the state records by a second automated reviewer, and spot-checked by hand; all counts are computed directly from the state data. It may contain errors. The official state record is authoritative. Records reflect only deficiencies published by the state after due process. This page does not rate or rank providers.