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Garden Pathways Downtown Education Cent

1130 17th Street, Bakersfield, CA 93301 · Kern County (661) 633-2300 License #153808747
24
inspections on file
6
recorded violations
3
health & safety class
Oct 19, 2026
last inspection

Inspection history

Source: California Department of Social Services, Community Care Licensing Division
Inspection history for Garden Pathways Downtown Education Cent
DateKindOutcome as recordedViolationsOfficial record
Oct 19, 2026InspectionNo deficiencies cited0Official report · PDF
Oct 19, 2026Case Management: IncidentNo deficiencies cited0Official report · PDF
Apr 8, 2026Case Management: IncidentNo deficiencies cited0Official report · PDF
Jan 15, 2026ComplaintSubstantiated: 1) Facility staff did not inform parents of a Type A citation0Official report · PDF
Dec 23, 2025ComplaintSubstantiated: Staff hit day care child; Staff handled day care children in a rough manner · 1 deficiency cited1Official report · PDF
Dec 5, 2025InspectionNo deficiencies cited0Official report · PDF
Dec 1, 2025Case Management: IncidentNo deficiencies cited0Official report · PDF
Jul 11, 2025Case Management: OtherNo deficiencies cited0Official report · PDF
May 12, 2025ComplaintSubstantiated: Adult spanked child in the presence of daycare children0Official report · PDF
May 12, 2025Case Management: IncidentNo deficiencies cited0Official report · PDF
May 12, 2025Case Management: Other1 Type B deficiency cited1Official report · PDF
Apr 17, 2025ComplaintSubstantiated: Staff speaks inappropriately in front of day care children · 1 deficiency cited1Official report · PDF
Jan 8, 2025OfficeNo deficiencies cited0Official report · PDF
Oct 4, 2024ComplaintSubstantiated: Staff left daycare children unattended for a period of time · 1 deficiency cited1Official report · PDF
Oct 4, 2024OfficeNo deficiencies cited0Official report · PDF
Sep 18, 2024ComplaintSubstantiated: Staff did not prevent a daycare child from exposing private area to other daycare children · 1 deficiency cited1Official report · PDF
Sep 18, 2024ComplaintSubstantiated: Facility staff did not prevent day care child from exposing himself in the classroom · 1 deficiency cited1Official report · PDF
Feb 27, 2024ComplaintUnsubstantiated0Official report · PDF
Nov 17, 2023ComplaintSubstantiated: Facility is not clean, safe, or sanitary0Official report · PDF
Nov 17, 2023Case Management: DeficienciesNo deficiencies cited0Official report · PDF
Aug 24, 2023InspectionNo deficiencies cited0Official report · PDF
Jun 28, 2023OfficeNo deficiencies cited0Official report · PDF
Jun 8, 2023Case Management: IncidentNo deficiencies cited0Official report · PDF
Aug 4, 2022InspectionNo deficiencies cited0Official report · PDF

Violations

Text reproduced verbatim · California Department of Social Services, Community Care Licensing Division
How to read violations

Nearly every licensed provider accumulates some. A missing signature and an unlocked medicine cabinet are both “violations”, and they are not the same thing. Look at the class, the pattern over time and how quickly it was corrected — not the count alone.

Paperwork — records, postings, forms Standard — supervision, ratio, training Health & safety — direct risk to a child

Class is our grouping of the state’s own weights, reviewed per state. The agency’s own label is always shown beside it.

Dec 23, 2025Complaint · 1 deficiency citedOfficial report
Health & safetyState weight: Type A
CCR 101223(a)(3) — Personal Rights - To be free from corporal or unusual punishment, infliction of pain, humiliation, intimidation, ridicule, coercion,…

“LPA [name withheld]’s interviews and review of facility records it was revealed that daycare staff hit day care children and daycare staff handled day care children in a rough manner. This poses a risk to the health, safety, or personal rights of children in care.”

Corrective action plan due Dec 30, 2025
May 12, 2025Case Management: Other · 1 deficiency citedOfficial report
StandardState weight: Type B
CCR 101212(d) — Reporting Requirements (d) Upon the occurrence, during the operation of the childcare center of any of the events specified in (d)(1)…

“Based on records reviewed, Licensee did not comply with the cited regulation, which poses a potential risk to the health, safety, or personal rights to children in care.”

Corrective action plan due May 26, 2025
Apr 17, 2025Complaint · 1 deficiency citedOfficial report
StandardState weight: Type B
CCR 101223(a)(1) — Personal Rights(a) The licensee shall ensure that each child is accorded the following personal rights:

“Based on interviews conducted it was founded that staff including management speaks inappropriately in front of day care children. Which poses a potential risk to the health, safety, and personal rights of children in care.”

Corrective action plan due May 1, 2025
Oct 4, 2024Complaint · 1 deficiency citedOfficial report
StandardState weight: Type B
CCR 101229 — Responsibility for Providing Care and Supervision:

“staff was in between the door of the classroom and playground at times, they were not readily available to assist, care and meet the children’s needs.”

Corrective action plan due Oct 4, 2024
Sep 18, 2024Complaint · 1 deficiency citedOfficial report
Health & safetyState weight: Type A
CCR 101229(a)(1) — Responsibility for Providing Care and Supervision:

“licensee failed to ensure that children in care were adequately supervised as child #1 exposed his genitalia on multiple occasions to staff and other children on or around June and July 2024. This poses an immediate health and safety risk in that the licensee shall ensure that children are afforded adequate supervision while in care”

Corrective action plan due Sep 19, 2024
Sep 18, 2024Complaint · 1 deficiency citedOfficial report
Health & safetyState weight: Type A
CCR 101223(a)(2) — The licensee shall ensure that each child is accorded the following personal rights:

“the licensee continually allowed child #1 to expose his genitalia to other staff and children in care on multiple occasions. This is a continuation event from a previous event that has been ongoing since June 2024. This poses an immediate health and safety risk to children in care.”

Corrective action plan due Sep 19, 2024

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