Inspection of 16 December 2025 — Inspection Report
Regulation 9 — Management and recruitment
- The registered provider did not take appropriate measures to ensure that all employees were suitable to work in an early years’ service prior to commencing employment. While it is acknowledged that two validated references were available for one staff member employed in the service, both references were validated on 12 November 2025 and 13 November 2025 respectively, but not before the staff member commenced employment on 01 September 2025
Provider's corrective action:
- The registered provider has stated that the validation date of both references was recorded incorrectly by the HR department. This issue has now been rectified internally to ensure it won’t happen again in the future. To prevent any recurrence of this non-compliance, all references will be verified prior to commencement of new staff, and this information will be double-checked by the Area Manager and HR Manager before being uploaded onto the internal HR system and stored on the staff member’s file
Found compliant: Regulation 11, 19.