Footprints Pre-School

Regulation 23 — Safeguarding health, safety and welfare of child

• The Inspectorate is not assured that adequate steps have been taken to ensure the health, safety and welfare of the pre-school children attending the service based on the following observations made during the inspection: General Safety: 1. Garda vetting was available for 5 staff members including the registered provider, 3 childcare staff and 1 contracted music teacher. However, 1 of these vetting disclosures was not dated within the previous three years in adherence to with the Early Years Inspectorate Regulatory Notice ‘EYI-RN12.3 Renewal of Garda Vetting’. 2. The records available for the firefighting equipment on the premises detailed 09/2023 as the purchase date for the fire extinguishers. However no further maintenance records were available. This is outside the best practice guidelines which recommends that all firefighting equipment must be maintained at intervals not exceeding 12 months. This is a recurring noncompliance from the last inspection and is at variance with the corrective and preventative actions that were previously submitted in response to previous non-compliance that stated “. The fire company have booked service in for their yearly service on the first Monday in August every year.”