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Children’s Depot Learning Center

A licensed child care center in Canton, Texas 75103

1480 S Buffalo St, Canton, Texas 75103. (903) 567-1198.

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The short answer

Record last released by Texas HHSC on Oct 24, 2026.

The last 24 months 3 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Dec 2025. Most serious: Medium High. Every month

Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.

What these words mean5
Inspection (survey)
A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
Deficiency, citation, violation
What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
Texas’s risk levels
Texas gives each child care deficiency a risk level, by how likely it is to harm a child: Low, Medium Low, Medium, Medium High or High. High is its most serious. Source: Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Child Care Regulation.
Licence status
Whether the state’s licence lets the place operate now, in the state’s own words: licensed, on probation (allowed to keep operating on conditions, after problems), provisional, pending or expired. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
Capacity
The most people the licence or certification lets the place care for at once: residents, children, beds or apartments, as the state counts them. It isn’t how many are there now. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.

What did inspectors find?

3 deficiencies cited in the last three years

The middle of the 19 child care providers in Van Zandt County had 2.

9 inspections on record. The latest, on Jul 30, 2026: no violation found.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data) and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

When those deficiencies happened

3 deficiencies in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Dec 2025. Most serious: Medium High. The last 3 years, to Oct 24, 2026.

3 deficiencies by month over the last 3 years. Each cell is one month.
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2023 NovDec
2024 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2026 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct

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No visit on record Visited, nothing cited A stronger orange is more serious, on its source’s own levels, read onto four bands: from the least serious it publishes to the most
Source:

Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.

Each deficiency, in Texas’s words

Grouped by visit, newest first, with the risk level Texas gave it, from Low to High.

Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

Dec 5, 2025: inspection2 deficiencies

  • Training Requirements for Employees, Caregivers, and Directors - 24 Annual training

    “At the inspection, 2 out of 8 training records reviewed did not complete the required annual training hours. One employee needs 4 hours and one needs 18 hours to complete their training year.”

    Rule 746.1301(a)(5)(A). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Jan 5, 2026. Correction verified: Jan 6, 2026.

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit (Form 2985)

    “At the inspection, 1 out of 8 personnel records reviewed did not have a notarized affidavit in the file.”

    Rule 746.901(4). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Dec 12, 2025. Correction verified: Jan 6, 2026.

Jan 18, 2024: inspection1 deficiency

  • Children’s Records - Immunizations

    “At the inspection, 1 out of 6 children’s records reviewed did not have an updated immunization record.”

    Rule 746.603(a)(4). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 1, 2024. Correction verified: Feb 16, 2024.

11 deficiencies older than three years
Mar 21, 2023: inspection1 deficiency

  • Requirement of Gas Leak Inspection

    “3/21/23- The gas check inspection has not been conducted as of the follow-up inspection. At the inspection, the gas leak check expired on 9/14/22.”

    Rule 746.5401. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 28, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 28, 2023.

Feb 23, 2023: inspection5 deficiencies

  • Emergency Preparedness Plan - Evacuation, relocation, and sheltering/lock-down procedures

    “At the inspection, the name and address of the alternate shelter away from the center was not included in the emergency evacuation plan. The name and address was corrected at inspection.”

    Rule 746.5202(1). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 23, 2023. Correction verified: Feb 24, 2023.

  • Sheltering Drills for Lock-Down-4 times in a calendar year

    “At the inspection, lock-down drills have not been practiced with the children.”

    Rule 746.5205(3). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 16, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 21, 2023.

  • Requirement of Gas Leak Inspection

    “At the inspection, the gas leak check expired on 9/14/22.”

    Rule 746.5401. Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 16, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 21, 2023.

  • Activities for Infants - Outdoor Play Daily

    “At the inspection, the opportunity for outside time is not being given to the infant children on a daily basis.”

    Rule 746.2417(1). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Feb 23, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 13, 2023.

  • Required Personnel Records- Training Hours

    “At the inspection, 1 out 6 trainng records for staff reviewed, one caregiver needs 8.5 hours of annual training to complete the year.”

    Rule 746.901(5). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Mar 16, 2023. Correction verified: Mar 15, 2023.

Mar 29, 2022: inspection5 deficiencies

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Medical Authorization

    “3 out of 6 children’s records reviewed did not include the emergency care authorization.”

    Rule 746.605(12). High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 19, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 13, 2022.

  • Each Caregiver and the Director Must Have Current Training in pediatric first aid with rescue breathing and choking.

    “1 out 6 personnel files reviewed did not have current first aid/cpr training and expired September 19, 2021.”

    Rule 746.1315(a). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 19, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 13, 2022.

  • Required Admission Information - Emergency Contact

    “3 out of 6 children’s records reviewed did not complete the information for emergency contacts.”

    Rule 746.605(6). Medium High, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 19, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 13, 2022.

  • Required Admission Information - Physician Information

    “1 out of 6 children’s records reviewed did not have physician’s information.”

    Rule 746.605(11). Medium, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 19, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 13, 2022.

  • Required Personnel Records - Required Affidavit

    “4 out of 6 personnel files reviewed did not have a notarized affidavit.”

    Rule 746.901(4). Medium Low, by Texas’s label. Correction date, as Texas HHSC recorded it: Apr 19, 2022. Correction verified: Apr 15, 2022.

All 10 visits on record
Inspections, investigations and reports to the state
DateVisitWhat the record says
Jul 30, 2026InspectionNo violation found
Jul 28, 2026Report to the stateNo violation found
Dec 5, 2025Inspection2 deficiencies cited
Dec 9, 2024InspectionNo violation found
Jan 18, 2024Inspection1 deficiency cited
Nov 10, 2023InspectionNo violation found
Mar 21, 2023Inspection1 deficiency cited
Feb 23, 2023Inspection5 deficiencies cited
Oct 4, 2022InspectionNo violation found
Mar 29, 2022Inspection5 deficiencies cited

Is it licensed?

  • Licensed Center, permit issued Apr 1, 2021.
  • Accepts state child care subsidies.
  • Licensed for ages: Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School.
  • Capacity: 184 children.
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

Has Texas acted against it?

  • No corrective or adverse action by Texas on record.
  • 1 report to the state on record; Texas doesn’t publish whether they were .
Source:

Texas HHSC, child care operations and inspections and investigations. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

Who does the caring?

  • Texas doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual providers. State rules set staff-to-child ratios by age.

Who owns it?

  • Texas’s open data doesn’t list owners.

How is it rated?

  • Texas Rising Star: 3-Star (the middle of three levels).
Source:

Texas Workforce Commission, subsidy providers and Texas Rising Star. Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

How does it compare nearby?

  • Among 19 child care providers in Van Zandt County, the middle value for deficiencies cited in the last three years was 2; this one had 3.
Source:

Texas HHSC, deficiencies (non-compliance data). Released Oct 24, 2026. Updated daily.

11 of the 19 in Van Zandt County, as the source lists them, same ZIP code first
PlaceDeficiencies, 3 years
Madeleine Finn0
Children’s Depot Learning Center This child care provider3
Pecan Ridge Learning Academy3
Billie Watts2
Lily Pad Learning Center0
Kids Crossing0
Methodist Day School1
Hope’s Little Preschool2
Legacy Preschool0
The Village Learning Academy9
Tamberlee Harrison Mitchell12
Van Learning Center0

What the record doesn’t say

  • Texas doesn’t publish whether a complaint was substantiated.
  • Texas rates some paperwork slips as High risk, so read what was actually cited.
  • Texas doesn’t publish staffing levels or owners for individual providers.

Sources

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Source:

This copy of the record was made on Oct 24, 2026.

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Not fully inspected in over two years (CMS flag)

11 health citations at the latest inspection cycle

The state average is 14.3.

Source:

CMS, State and US Averages and Health Deficiencies. Released Oct 28, 2026. Updated monthly.

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