Giraffe Childcare Central Park

Regulation 23 — Safeguarding health, safety and welfare of child

• Infection Control: 1. The nappy changing procedures observed throughout the service were not effective for infection prevention and control. Gloves used for nappy changing were not removed before redressing children, children’s hands were not routinely washed after nappy changing and the changing mats were not cleaned between changes. Adults did not wash their own hands between nappy changes. 2. Foot pedal operated bins were not used appropriately. Adults and children were observed to use their hands to open bins to dispose of waste posing a risk of cross contamination. 3. The hands of young children attending the Serengeti and Botswana rooms were not washed before eating posing a risk of infection. 4. A child in the Serengeti room was observed to repeatedly mouth beakers of water belonging to two other children. Adults working in the room who observed this did not remove the beakers despite one of the children having an obvious infection which posed a risk of cross infection to other children. Action submitted by the Registered Provider