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Plain-English summary of cited deficiencies
State records list 5 cited deficiencies dated January 9, 2024 to December 5, 2025 (1 High, 2 Medium High, 2 Medium risk). Correction status: 0 corrected at inspection, 5 with a correction date recorded, 0 with no correction date recorded.
High risk · AP Initial background checks submitted - At the time you hire someone (745.621(a)(2)) Cited December 5, 2025 (correction date recorded: December 5, 2025; correction verified December 8, 2025; technical assistance given). What the record describes: A caregiver with direct access to children was present without background check eligibility. The caregiver was sent home during the inspection.
Medium High risk · Annual Sanitation Inspection (746.3401(a)) Cited December 5, 2025 (correction date recorded: January 5, 2026; correction verified December 29, 2025; technical assistance given). What the record describes: The operation had not had a health inspection since 9/2024.
Medium High risk · Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Six Inches if Equipment 5 Ft or Less (746.4907(a)(1)) Cited January 9, 2024 (correction date recorded: January 23, 2024; correction verified January 22, 2024; technical assistance given). What the record describes: The loose-fill surfacing for a 4 ft slide was only 2 inches deep; it is required to be 6 inches deep in the slide use zone area.
Medium risk · Documented Annual Training- Required Content (746.1309(e)) Cited December 5, 2025 (correction date recorded: January 5, 2026; correction verified December 8, 2025). What the record describes: Three caregivers did not have the required health and safety trainings.
Medium risk · Maintenance Procedures for Active Play - Monthly Maintenance Checklist (746.4751(b)) Cited December 5, 2025 (correction date recorded: December 8, 2025; correction verified December 22, 2025). What the record describes: The operation had only a completed checklist from 12/2025 and could not locate earlier checklists to show the checks were done at least monthly.
Counts, dates, risk levels and correction status come directly from the state data. The plain-English descriptions were written automatically from the inspectors' narratives and checked against them by a second automated reviewer; they cover citations dated October 11, 2023 to October 11, 2026. They may contain errors; the official record is authoritative.
This summary is generated automatically from public HHSC records. It restates the official record and may lag behind it. The official state record is the authoritative source: official HHSC record.
Texas Health and Human Services records list 5 cited deficiencies for Little Hands International Preschool in the 3 years before October 10, 2026 (1 High, 2 Medium High, 2 Medium).
Records list 4 inspections in this window. Most recent inspection: 2025-12-05.
HHSC risk weights of citations
Risk weight
Citations
High
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Medium High
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Medium
2
Medium Low
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Low
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Unknown
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HHSC assigns each standard a risk weight from Low to High. A deficiency is a finding that a minimum standard was not met.
Installation and Maintenance of Loose-fill Surfacing - Six Inches if Equipment 5 Ft or Less
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2024-01-23. Correction verified: 2024-01-22.
During the monitoring inspection it was observed that the loose fill for a 4 ft slide was only 2 inches deep. It is required to be 6 inches deep in the slide, use zone, area.
Training Requirements for Employees and Caregivers - Pre-service Training
Corrected at inspection: Yes. Correction date: 2023-01-18. Correction verified: Not recorded.
A review of records, one staff did not have documentation of the required 24- hour pre-service training. This was corrected at inspection when the staff added the additional proof of prior employment to the personnel record.
Naptime Child/Caregiver Ratio - Caregivers Physically Present
Corrected at inspection: Yes. Correction date: 2023-01-18. Correction verified: Not recorded.
During the inspection, a caregiver was observed standing in the doorway supervising a group of children located inside of the classroom getting ready for nap and another group sitting in the hallway waiting to use the restroom. This was corrected at inspection when the caregiver had the children in the classroom go out and sit in the hallway with the rest of the children.
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2022-03-04. Correction verified: 2022-03-01.
A review of the Employees Who Left Employment in 2021 data from February 23, 2022, revealed that the center had not reported the number of employees who left employment in 2021 by February 22, 2022, as required.
Corrected at inspection: No. Correction date: 2022-01-19. Correction verified: 2022-01-19.
One caregiver's Records out of six reviewed did not have a notarized Licensing Affidavit within their files.
Source: Texas HHSC Child Care Regulation, via data.texas.gov (CC0). See the official record: https://childcare.hhs.texas.gov/Public/InspectionAndComplianceHistory?operationId=1385485
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