How SAFE is your Setting?

This week is Child Safety Week – The perfect time to have a good look around your setting and review your risk assessments and safety procedures.

Every area of your setting or home used for childcare purposes should be checked regularly for hazards and action taken to minimise risk wherever possible. Whilst it is not always a requirement to complete risk assessments in written form, they are useful to work through and ensure all safety aspects have been considered, to review on a regular basis and to present as evidence on inspection.

🤔Stuck on how to write risk assessments?

Work through the editable templates in our Risk Assessments Pack to:

🔍Thoroughly evaluate the risks in and around your childcare setting

📝Note down what actions you have taken in order to ensure your setting is safe.

🎓Consider the learning benefits of various activities whilst also assessing and managing risks.

🚗Consider in detail how you can keep children from harm whilst travelling, or away from the setting on outing.

🐶Assess any additional risks and areas to be considered at a result of keeping pets at your setting

🌛Consider and minimise any additional risks involved in providing overnight care.

➗Assess any additional risks that must be considered as a result of an exception to ratios.

Supplied as Microsoft Word documents, you can edit and add to each template to suit your individual setting and circumstances…and use the Blank Templates to create more risk assessments as required.