The Children's Place Child Development Center LLC
The Children's Place Child Development Center LLC was a licensed child care center in Indio, CA, licensed for up to 25 children. Its license closed around January 2025. Since February 2021, the state inspected it once, investigated 2 complaints (2 substantiated) and issued 7 citations, 3 of them Type A. Its inspection history is kept here for reference.
Inspection history
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Based on interviews and video observations, the facility did not ensure staff provided visual supervision at all times, to children in care, which resulted in one child being injued. This poses an immediate risk to the health, safety and personal rights of the children in care.
Based on interviews, video observations, and records review, the facility did not ensure Child #1’s personal rights due to Staff #1 spoke inappropriately to Child #1 by threatening to choke Child #1 on at least one occasion. This poses an immediate health, safety or personal rights risk to the children in care.
Based on observation and record review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in that S1 and S3 do not have any college units, nor are they enrolled in college, which poses an immediate health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
Based on record review, the licensee did not comply with the section cited above in that S1, S5 and S6 do not have current mandated reporter trainings, which poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to persons in care.
...a report shall be made to the Department...Events reported shall include...Any unusual incident...that threatens the physical or emotional health or safety of any child. Director agrees to provide staff with training on how to fill out incident reports, will review reporting requirement regulation and any other internal procedures for reporting incidents/or injuries will all staff. Will provide documentation of sign in sheets, and summary of training to the Department to by due date 05/12/2023. This requirement was not met as evidence by: Based on interviews and records review, the facillity did not ensure several incidents involving Child #1 were reported to the Department. This poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to the children in care.
Based on interviews and video observations, the facility did not ensure staff provided visual supervision at all times, to children in care. This poses a potential health, safety or personal rights risk to the children in care.
Director has decided to discuss with the child's parent the policy and need to terminate services. Director will submit signed copy of termination agreement to LPA by 5/5/2023. A child with "three strikes" continues to be enrolled in the child care center. This poses a potential health, safety, or personal rights risk to the children in care.
Complaint investigations
Staff did not prevent child from harming another child in care
Staff spoke inappropriately to a daycare child while in car
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Citations are quoted from California Department of Social Services inspection and complaint reports. Type A citations are the state’s most serious category (an immediate risk to children’s health, safety or personal rights); Type B citations are a potential risk. A citation is a finding about one rule, not a judgment about a center overall. Complaint allegations appear here only when the state substantiated them.
To read the full state reports, search facility number 334846127 on the California Care Facility Search. Data refreshed Oct 3, 2026.
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