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Play area posed 'significant risk' to nursery kids

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Vincent
Published date17 June 2022
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
Huddersfield Community Nursery (Al- Nasiha) in the Clare Hill Centre at Clare Hill was inspected over a two-and-a-half-month period between February 3 and April 29 and served with four separate welfare requirements notices requiring improvements in child protection policies and procedures to safeguard children

Enforcement included training so that staff could identify and respond to child protection concerns, and for management to take steps to obtain criminal record checks for all adults working with children.

Robust recruitment and vetting checks also needed to be implemented while risk assessments were required to ensure all areas of the premises accessed by children were safe and suitable.

Following the inspection on April 29 it was discovered that compliance action had not been met and so the nursery was rated inadequate in quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and leadership and management.

Inspector Jennifer Dove found "significant weaknesses" that compromised children's welfare with a manager and staff who "do not know how to identify and respond to concerns about children's welfare. They fail to take prompt action to share concerns about children with the relevant agencies, where required."

The manager and staff were found not to complete robust risk assessments and had failed to address...

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