Inspection of 3 March 2025 — Inspection Report
Immediate action notice. 3 March 2025 An immediate action notice (IAN) was issued to the registered provider on the day of inspection under Regulation 23 in relation to Regulation 25. Further details are available in the body of the report.
Regulation 9 — Management and recruitment
- (3) The registered provider did not ensure the following checks were carried out prior to two adults working in the service. o Documentary evidence available indicated that one adult had commenced employment within the service prior to receipt of Garda Vetting and also prior to the two reference validation checks. o Two adults did not have one reference validated before they commenced employment
Provider's corrective action:
- (3) All involved were made aware and reminded of the procedures prior to any employee starting within the service. A checklist will be used to ensure all documents are collected and verified prior to employees starting to prevent reoccurrence
Regulation 16 — Record in relation to pre-school service
- (j) A sample of ten administration of medication records were reviewed as part of the inspection. The following information was not included on the ten record forms: o There was no information included about the staff member who had witnessed the administration of medication. Failure to include this information could result in incorrect administration of medication within the service. o There was no parent signature recorded to show that the parent had been informed on the day of the administration of medication. Failure to ensure parents are provided with this information could result in a child receiving an overdose. (k) A sample of ten accident and incident records were reviewed as part of the inspection. The following information was not included. o On six of the ten accident and incident records reviewed there was no parent signature recorded to show that the parent had been informed on the day of the accident/incident. It is important that parents are informed of any accident/incident relating to their child so they can monitor their child appropriately
Provider's corrective action:
- (j) Management have gone through the process of medical forms with all team members to ensure they are fully aware or the procedures and the importance of ensuring the correct procedures are followed. The service has reverted back to using paper to ensure that parents and employees fill in or sign off on all areas. (k) Management have gone through the process of accident and incident reporting with all team members to ensure they are fully aware of the procedures and the importance of ensuring the correct procedures are followed. The service has reverted to using paper to ensure that parents and employees fill in or sign off on all areas
Regulation 23 — Safeguarding health, safety and welfare of child
- Administration of Medication: 1. The service did not ensure correct storage and administration of medication as evidenced by the following: o One child’s prescribed emergency medication was observed to be out of date. o An anti-febrile medication which can be used by staff to reduce a raised body temperature was observed to out of date. Out of date medications are not effective and should be disposed off and replaced as prescribed. Action submitted by the Registered Provider
Provider's corrective action:
- Administration of Medication: • Parents were contacted and new medication was brought to the service immediately. The checking of medication has been added to the service monthly checks. • The anti-febrile medication was removed from the service. The service will provide antifebrile medication and will keep it in the office and the manager will be in charge of managing expire dates
Regulation 25 — First aid
- (1) On review of the staff files, it was observed that there was no staff member with First Aid training available to the children between the hours of 8am to 9am. This posed a significant risk to children. An immediate action notice was issued on the day of the inspection. A response which will mitigate the risk was received on 4 March 2025
Provider's corrective action:
- (1) A staff member was sent on FAR training to attend at the closest date possible. The service will ensure there is always someone on site with FAR. An additional staff member has been sent to complete FAR training to prevent reoccurrence
Found compliant: Regulation 11, 19, 28.