Inspection of 31 January 2025 — Inspection Report
Regulation 9 — Management and recruitment
- (2)(d) Police vetting was not available for 3 adults that had lived outside the jurisdiction for 6 months or more
Provider's corrective action:
- : The registered provider has said in the CAPA document that:
- Police Vetting has been received for 1 of the 3 staff members who had no police vetting on file. The other two staff members have applied for their police vetting and the service will inform the inspectorate as soon as the process is completed. This may take some time due to circumstances within their country
Regulation 23 — Safeguarding health, safety and welfare of child
- General Safety: 1.The staff personal belongings such as handbags were stored in the children’s preschool bathroom facilities. This posed a safety risk to the children. Infection Control: 2.There was a hand operated bin in use instead of the pedal operated sealed air tight bin for the disposing of nappies in the nappy changing area for the Toddler preschool children. This increased the risk of cross infection for staff and children. Safe Sleep: 3. The physical safe sleep checks and the recording of these checks were not carried on the children from the Wobbler playroom (aged between 1 and 2 years of age) when asleep in their sleep room for appropriately 4 weeks, the month of January 2025. This posed a safety risk to the children. o For week commencing the 6th of January only 3 days the sleep checks were completed. o For week commencing the 13th of January, only one day sleep checks were completed. o For week commencing the 20th of January, no sleep checks completed. o For week commencing the 27th of January, the sleep checks were completed on the day of the inspection only, the 31/01/25. This was not in line with the service safe sleep policy which stated that the staff go into the sleep room, observe and physically check each sleeping child every 10 minutes, including completing a sleep record. Action submitted by the Registered Provider
Provider's corrective action:
- : The registered provider has said in the CAPA document that: General Safety: 1.Staff belongings were immediately removed from the children’s bathroom and stored in the staff room. The management had a staff meeting to discuss the Tusla inspection and the dangers of keeping personal belongings in the children’s bathroom. All the bathrooms are checked periodically during day to ensure that there are no staff belongings stored there. Infection Control: 2. A new pedal operated, sealed airtight bin was purchased immediately after the inspection and is in use in the Toddler changing room. Safe Sleep: 3. The 10 minutes physical safe sleep checks and the recording of these checks were commenced immediately. The safe sleep policy was given to and explained to the staff, regarding its importance of safeguarding the children in the services care, particularly during their sleep time
Found compliant: Regulation 11, 19, 24, 25.