Austin, TX Building Safety: Childcare Center Rules (2026)

Child Care Regulation (CCR) is a statewide program that regulates child care operations and child-placing agencies by inspecting and investigating these operations and ensuring they meet state standards. Reports on every inspection are available online so parents can make informed child care decisions. [...] CCR administers two programs. The Child Day Care program issues permits and monitors center-based and in-home operations care for children 13 and younger for fewer than 24 hours a day while parents or guardians are at work or school. [...] The 24-hour Residential Child Care program issues permits and monitors operations and child-placing agencies providing around-the-clock care for children 17 and younger whose parents or guardians are temporarily or permanently unable to care for them. [...] CCR inspects licensed and registered operations to evaluate the minimum standards, rule and law. When CCR observes a violation, it issues a deficiency, notifies the operation in writing and posts the deficiency on the operation's public online record.