Houston-area day care inspections: Children left unattended, unsanitary procedures found

2016 DAY CARE REPORTS FROM HOUSTON'S BAY AREA Primrose School of Friendswood, 1409 S. Friendswood Drive, Friendswood July 15: Caregivers did not maintain supervision of one child during a field trip. April 15: . The caregivers placed one foot underneath the cots, lifting the cots up off of the floor, and then dropping the cots down forcefully to wake the children up after nap time. Caregivers were yelling at the children and grabbing children by their hands and arms forcefully. A caregiver threw a shoe at a child and the shoe hit the child on the forehead. less 2016 DAY CARE REPORTS FROM HOUSTON'S BAY AREA Primrose School of Friendswood, 1409 S. Friendswood Drive, Friendswood July 15: Caregivers did not maintain supervision of one child during a field trip. April 15: . ... more Photo: Google Earth Photo: Google Earth Image 1 of / 54 Caption Close Houston-area day care inspections: Children left unattended, unsanitary procedures found 1 / 54 Back to Gallery

What is going on while your child is in day care? In some facilities in Houston's Bay Area, children were left in vehicles, wandered outside or were cared for in unsanitary or unsafe conditions.

The State of Texas licenses child care centers and inspects the centers on a regular basis. The following is a summary of violations reported in 2016 by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.

All of this information is public and may be accessed at www.dfps.state.tx.us. Due to the volume of inspections, we are reporting only on licensed childcare centers where inspectors found unsanitary or unsafe conditions or serious risks to children.

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Failure to conduct background checks and complete first-aid training, although common and classified as a high-weight deficiency, are not included in this report. We recommend parents check with their childcare centers to ensure background checks and training are up to date.

If your childcare center is not on this list, you may find it at the DPFS website. The following report is comprised of licensed centers League City, Webster, Nassau Bay, Seabrook, Friendswood, Pearland and Clear Lake.

Click through the slideshow to see what we found in the state inspectors' reports.