# Ray of Sunshine Morning and Afterschool, Rathnew — inspection reports and findings

> Ray of Sunshine Morning and Afterschool (Rathnew, Co. Wicklow): what Tusla inspections found — 2 published inspection(s), non-compliances and the provider's corrective actions.

## Ray of Sunshine Morning and Afterschool

Sessional · 1 - 6 Years · Rathnew, Wicklow · Tusla ID **TU2021WW003** · Registered since 3 September 2024

An inspection records what inspectors saw **on one day**; services respond with corrective actions — [how to read this](/methodology.md).

#### Inspection of 31 July 2025 — Inspection Report

Full report (PDF, Tusla)

##### Regulation 19 — Health, welfare and development of child

- Basic Needs It is acknowledged that the Creche room was being decorated on the day of inspection and the children from that room were being accommodated in the Junior pre-school room. 1. The cosy area in the Junior pre-school room was not an inviting or suitably equipped area for the children in the room. There was only a cushion and a thin blanket in the cosy area and two children were observed trying to sit on the cushion at the same time, which could not accommodate them. The cosy area should be laid out in a way that encourages children to use the area should they need to rest or take a break from activities during their pre-school day. 2. The Junior pre-school room was not constructively planned to reflect clearly defined areas of interest and well-presented environments to provide a range of developmentally appropriate, challenging, diverse, creative and enriching experiences for the children. 3. On the day of inspection, no provision was made to move a selection of age-appropriate toys from the Creche to the Junior pre-school room, to meet the needs of the children who were using the room on that day

- 1. The cozy corner area in the preschool junior room has been updated with a new colourful, mat and more cushions for the children for resting, weekly checks will take place in all of the classrooms by managers. 2. We have redone our classroom areas with more defined layouts for our cozy corner, dress up and construction areas. Weekly check ins will be done with all staff to ensure that they understand the non- compliances, will help prevent them in the future. 3. We have noted for the future if we are using a different room the different age groups to risk assess the rooms and bring in materials that are age appropriate

##### Regulation 23 — Safeguarding health, safety and welfare of child

- General Safety: On the day of inspection, during the walk through of the pre-school, it was noted that the room temperature in the Junior Preschool room was 23.3°C at 11.15am. The room windows were fully open, but this did reduce the room temperature to a safe range between 18°C and 22°C. This was brought to the attention of the manager, and at 11.45am an air conditioning unit was brought to the room. While this managed to bring the room temperature down to 22°C by 12.05pm, the room temperature continued to fluctuate between 22°-23°C throughout the day. Infection Control: 1. The bin for the safe disposal of soiled nappies or food waste in the Junior Pre-school room was not operated by a foot pedal. Foot pedal bins are needed for infection control purposes. 2. Both adults and children were observed opening the soiled nappy bin with their hands and not washing them afterwards. 3. In the Junior Pre-school room there was no effective system in place for the sterilisation of mouthing toys. An adult in the room observed a mouthed toy being dropped on the floor by a child and ignored it. Effective sterilisation of mouthed toys is essential for infection control purposes. 4. During the walk through the service, clean, spare clothes were noted lying on the floor underneath a cot in the sleep room. Clean clothes need to be stored in a suitable area off the floor for infection control purposes. Safe Sleep: While there was written evidence that staff recorded the position, colour and breathing of children who were sleeping in cots, on the day of inspection, between 11.40am and 12.20pm, no sleeping children’s observations were documented. Safe sleep practices require that sleeping children’s observations need to be recorded at 10-minute intervals., Action submitted by the Registered Provider

- General Safety: Fans have been installed in all rooms to maintain the correct temperature. Infection Control: 1. A foot pedal bin has been put in place in the preschool junior room and at the staff meeting it was talked the importance of foot pedal bins for nappies. 2. Pedal bins are in all the rooms and the staff have been retrained in our nappy changing policy, the use of foot pedal bins and handwashing. 3. We spoke about infection control during our staff meeting and all the rooms now have and use their mouthed toy box throughout the day and make sure all the materials are sterilised at the end of each day. 4. We moved out spare clothes into our storage room on a shelf to keep them clean and read to use if needed. Safe Sleep: Training has been carried out with all the staff on safe sleep and there is a new system in place in the sleep room. The first staff member in the sleep room is in charge of the sleep checks and if they are going on lunch, they hand the clipboard straight to the person in charge. Sleep checks to be carried out every 10 minutes and recorded

Found compliant: Regulation 9, 11, 15, 16, 24, 25, 26, 27.

#### Inspection of 29 October 2024 — Change in Circumstance

Full report (PDF, Tusla)

No non-compliance recorded in this report.

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Fonte: Tusla Early Years Inspectorate
Recolha: 2026-09-11