Recorded violations per inspection
- This provider
- 1.33
- Local median
- 0
GREAT BEGINNINGS LEARNING CENTER
2617 HOWARD RD., Madera, CA 93637
- Facility:
- 200406590
- Type:
- SCHOOL AGE DAY CARE CENTER
- Status:
- Licensed
- Records checked:
- July 17, 2026
Additional info
- Source:
- California Community Care Licensing Division
- District office:
- Not listed
- License effective:
- Not found
- Capacity:
- 24
Inspection snapshot
Recent higher-concern violation
At least one higher-concern violation appears in the last 12 months.
Next: Read reports, examine repeated topics below, look at the broader history, and ask what changed afterward.
Latest inspectionApril 17, 2026
Latest inspection with no recorded violationsJanuary 28, 2026
Summary
This summary covers nine available inspections for GREAT BEGINNINGS LEARNING CENTER from October 15, 2021 through April 17, 2026.
Six inspections recorded violations, with 12 recorded violations in total.
The most recent higher-concern violation was on April 17, 2026 and involved child guidance, with a due date of April 20, 2026.
That higher-concern topic showed up in three inspections.
The available reports do not include a later inspection with no recorded violations after that violation.
At a glance
- Total inspections
- 9
- Recorded violations
- 12
- Higher-concern violations
- 2
- Repeated topics
- 2
5 in last 12 months
7 in last 12 months
1 in last 12 months
Last 36 months
Local comparison
9 total inspections vs 4 local median in 93637
Compared to 42 local facilities
Inspections with higher-concern violations
- This provider
- 22%
- Local median
- 0%
Inspections with recorded violations
- This provider
- 67%
- Local median
- 0%
Repeated topics
- This provider
- 2
- Local average
- 0.12
Repeated topics
Topics that appeared in more than one inspection during the last 36 months. They may reveal a pattern worth examining.
Child guidance
Appeared across 3 inspections, with 5 recorded violations.
June 19, 2025August 13, 2025April 17, 2026Facility condition
Appeared across 2 inspections, with 3 recorded violations.
July 8, 2024August 7, 2025Inspection history
Available inspection history. Select a violation topic for more info.
Higher concern: Child guidance
- Report finding
- Personal Rights. (a) The licensee shall ensure that each child is accorded the following personal rights: (3) To be free from…intimidation…threat…or other actions of a punitive nature including but not limited to: interference with functions of daily living. This requirement was not met as evidenced by information obtained from interviews. During interviews it was revealed that staff inappropriately speaks to children. This poses an immediate health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
- Correction status
- Plan of correction due by April 20, 2026
More details
- Official CA class
- Type A deficiency
- Report section
- CCR 101223(a)(3) - 101223(a)(3)
- Official code
- 101223(a)(3)
Medium concern: Child guidance
- Report finding
- Personal Rights. (a) The licensee shall ensure that each child is accorded the following personal rights: (3) To be free from…intimidation…threat…or other actions of a punitive nature including but not limited to: interference with functions of daily living. This requirement was not met as evidenced by information obtained from interviews. During interviews it was revealed that staff had verbal altercation in the presence of children. This poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
- Correction status
- Plan of correction due by April 20, 2026
More details
- Official CA class
- Type B deficiency
- Report section
- CCR 101223(a)(3) - 101223(a)(3)
- Official code
- 101223(a)(3)
No recorded violations in this report
No recorded violations in this report
Medium concern: Child guidance
- Report finding
- 101223 Personal Rights (a)The licensee shall ensure that each child is accorded the following personal rights:(3) To be free from corporal or unusual punishment, infliction of pain, humiliation, intimidation, ridicule, coercion, threat, mental abuse or requirement is not met as evidenced by: Per interviews LPA sustained substantial confirmation that school age staff mishandle and give inappropriate discipline to children in care. Which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
- Report comments
- Per interviews LPA sustained substantial confirmation that school age staff mishandle and give inappropriate discipline to children in care. Which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
- Correction status
- Plan of correction due by August 29, 2025
More details
- Official CA class
- Type B deficiency
- Report section
- CCR 101223(a)(3) - 101223(a)(3)
- Official code
- 101223(a)(3)
Medium concern: Child guidance
- Report finding
- 101223 Personal Rights (a) The licensee shall ensure that each child is accorded the following personal rights: (1)To be accorded dignity in his/her personal relationships with staff and other persons. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Based on observation and Per interviews LPA sustained substantial confirmation that school age staff speak inappropriately to children in care. Which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
- Report comments
- Per interviews LPA sustained substantial confirmation that school age staff speak inappropriately to children in care. Which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
- Correction status
- Plan of correction due by August 29, 2025
More details
- Official CA class
- Type B deficiency
- Report section
- CCR 101223(a)(1) - 101223(a)(1)
- Official code
- 101223(a)(1)
Medium concern: Licensing compliance
- Report finding
- 101200 Inspection Authority of the Department (c)The Department has the authority to inspect, audit, and copy child or child care center records upon demand during normal business hours...Removal ... (1) The licensee shall ensure that provisions are made for the examination of all records relating to the operation of the child care center. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Director did not provide the Department with the requested documents. Which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
- Correction / follow-up note
- of all records relating to the operation of the child care center. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Director did not provide the Department with the requested documents. Which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
- Correction status
- Plan of correction due by August 8, 2025
More details
- Official CA class
- Type B deficiency
- Report section
- CCR 101200(c)(1) - 101200(c)(1)
- Official code
- 101200(c)(1)
Medium concern: Facility condition
- Report finding
- 101238.2(d)(2) Outdoor Activity Space (d) The surface of the outdoor activity space shall be maintained: (2) Free of hazards including, but not limited to, holes, broken glass and other debris, and dry grasses that pose a fire hazard. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: LPA observed various holes in the outdoor activity space that are a potential hazard to children in care. Which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
- Inspector notes
- This requirement is not met as evidenced by: LPA observed various holes in the outdoor activity space that are a potential hazard to children in care. Which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
- Correction status
- Plan of correction due by August 13, 2025
More details
- Official CA class
- Type B deficiency
- Report section
- CCR 101238.2(d)(2) - 101238.2(d)(2)
- Official code
- 101238.2(d)(2)
Medium concern: Facility condition
- Report finding
- 101238.2(e)(1) Outdoor Activity Space (e) As a condition of licensure, the areas around and under high climbing equipment, swings, slides and other similar equipment shall be cushioned with material that absorbs falls. (1) Sand, woodchips and peagravel, or rubber mats commercially produced for the purposes of (e) above, are permitted. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: LPA observed that the sand was hard and compacted under outdoor equipment. Which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
- Inspector notes
- commercially produced for the purposes of (e) above, are permitted. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: LPA observed that the sand was hard and compacted under outdoor equipment. Which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
- Correction status
- Plan of correction due by August 13, 2025
More details
- Official CA class
- Type B deficiency
- Report section
- CCR 101238.2(e)(1) - 101238.2(e)(1)
- Official code
- 101238.2(e)(1)
Higher concern: Child guidance
- Report finding
- 101223 Personal Rights (a)The licensee shall ensure that each child is accorded the following personal rights: (3) To be free from corporal or unusual punishment, infliction of pain, humiliation, intimidation, ridicule, coercion, threat, mental abuse or other actions of a punitive nature.... This requirement was not met based on evidenced of records reviewed and interviews. LPA Rodriguez obtained information from corroborating interviews that revealed that staff do not adequately supervise pets in the facility resulting in a child being bitten, which posed an immediate risk to the health, safety and/or personal rights to children in care.
- Report comments
- This requirement was not met based on evidenced of records reviewed and interviews. LPA Rodriguez obtained information from corroborating interviews that revealed that staff do not adequately supervise pets in the facility resulting in a child being bitten, which posed an immediate risk to the health, safety and/or personal rights to children in care.
- Correction status
- Plan of correction due by June 20, 101
More details
- Official CA class
- Type A deficiency
- Report section
- CCR 101223(a) - 101223(a)
- Official code
- 101223(a)
Medium concern: Environmental health
- Report finding
- Lead Testing (1) A licensed child day care center, as defined in Section 1596.76, that is located in a building that was constructed before January 1, 2010, shall have its drinking water tested for lead contamination levels on or after January 1, 2020, but no later than January 1, 2023, and every five years after the date of the initial test. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Based on interview and record review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above, which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care. Per licensee, the facility has not been tested for lead. Licensee stated that the children do not drink from the drinking fountains and only drink bottled water that they bring from home. Licensee did stated that she uses one of the sinks for boiling water when cooking.
- Correction status
- Plan of correction due by August 6, 2024
More details
- Official CA class
- Type B deficiency
- Report section
- HSC 1597.16(a)(1) - 1597.16(a)(1)
- Official code
- 1597.16(a)(1)
Medium concern: Facility condition
- Report finding
- 101538.3 Indoor Activity Space for School-Age Children (b) In combination programs, indoor activity space provided for school-age child care center children shall be physically separated from space provided for infant care and child care center children. This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Based on observation. LPA observed 15 school age and 5 preschool children in the school age classroom. Which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
- Inspector notes
- This requirement is not met as evidenced by: Based on observation. LPA observed 15 school age and 5 preschool children in the school age classroom. Which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
- Correction status
- Plan of correction due by July 22, 2024
More details
- Official CA class
- Type B deficiency
- Report section
- CCR 101538.3(b) - 101538.3(b)
- Official code
- 101538.3(b)
Medium concern: Hazardous access
- Report finding
- 101238 Buildings and Grounds (g) Disinfectants, cleaning solutions, poisons and other items that could pose a danger if readily available to children shall be stored where inaccessible to children. This requirement was not met as evidence by: LPA observed 14 cans of interior/exterior paint that was accessbile to children in care, which poses a potential health, safety or perosnal rights risk to persons in care.
- Inspector notes
- LPA observed 14 cans of interior/exterior paint that was accessbile to children in care, which poses a potential health, safety or perosnal rights risk to persons in care.
- Correction status
- Plan of correction due by July 8, 2024
More details
- Official CA class
- Type B deficiency
- Report section
- CCR 101238 - 101238
- Official code
- 101238
Low concern: Recordkeeping
- Report finding
- 101217 Personnel Records (a) The licensee shall ensure that personnel records are maintained on the licensee, administrator and each employee. Each personnel record shall contain the following information: This requirement was not met as evidence by: Based on record reveiw Staff #2 did not have a file at the facility for LPA to review. Which poses a potential health, safety or perosnal rights risk to persons in care.
- Report comments
- This requirement was not met as evidence by: Based on record reveiw Staff #2 did not have a file at the facility for LPA to review. Which poses a potential health, safety or perosnal rights risk to persons in care.
- Correction status
- Plan of correction due by July 12, 2024
More details
- Official CA class
- Type B deficiency
- Report section
- CCR 101217 - 101217
- Official code
- 101217
No recorded violations in this report