Stuck on how to write risk assessments? This pack will save you hours of time!

Work through these editable templates 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.

Includes ALL of the following:

Setting & Garden Risk Assessment Templates

These templates will help you go through in detail the potential hazards in and around your setting and what actions  you have put in place to minimise risk. Refer to the Information and User Guide included in this pack to see how you can edit and add to the completed examples as required.  Template examples are included for all of the following areas:

• Lounge / Dining Room / Playroom
• Kitchen
• Bathroom
• Sleeping Areas
• Hall & Stairs
• Garden
• Fire Safety 

A Blank Risk Assessment Template is included in the pack should you wish to risk assess any other areas.

Activity Risk / Benefit Assessment Templates

Consider the learning benefits of various activities whilst also assessing and managing risks. Edit or add to the templates as you wish to suit your setting and the activities you provide.

Template examples are included for all of the following:

• Outdoor / Active Play – ride on toys, large play equipment and parks, trampoline, den building, climbing trees
• Arts & Crafts – painting, using glue, using scissors / tools / sharp objects, arts and crafts accessories
• Messy & Sensory Play – water, sand, malleable play resources (clay, dough, gloop, etc)
• Loose Parts Play – twigs, acorns, bottles, coins, stones, tyres, boxes, feathers, corks, etc
• Paddling Pool

You may also be interested in our Risk / Benefit Posters!

Outings Risk Assessment Templates

These templates cover popular types of outings, and methods of transport. Edit to suit your own setting and circumstances. As time goes by you may introduce further risk assessments for new outing locations. Template examples are included for all of the following:

• All Outings
• Play Park
• Playgroup
• Soft Play
• Travelling  by Car
• Walking
• Picnic
• Outing to the Woods
• Beach *NEW

A Blank Risk Assessment Template is also included in the pack should you wish to risk assess any other places you visit regularly or intend to take children to on an outing or any new activities.

Pet Risk Assessment Template

This template will help you to assess any additional risks and areas to be considered at a result of keeping pets at your setting. You may also find the Pet Policy Template within the Policies & Procedures Pack helpful.

Exception To Ratios Risk Assessment Template 

The majority of childminders are permitted to care for up to six children under the age of eight at any one time. Of these six children, a maximum of three may be young children and only one may be under 12 months old. There are however circumstances that can arise where childcare providers may want to request an exception to these ratios for example to provide care for sibling babies or to maintain continuity of care for children already attending the setting.  The notes within this pack explain such circumstances in further detail and the template risk assessment will help you to assess any additional risks that must be considered as a result of the exception.

It is important that you check the relevant guidance as you may need to seek permission for an exception to ratios from Ofsted / The Care Inspectorate and in all circumstances will need to demonstrate to parents/ carers and inspectors that the individual needs of each child can be met.

You may also find the Ratio Management Chart useful for helping to manage your ratios.

Overnight Care Risk Assessment Template 

If you are registered to provide overnight care, or are looking to become registered for this service, it is important that you consider and minimise any additional risks involved and make clear to parents your procedures for overnight care arrangements.

Use this risk assessment template alongside our Overnight Care Policy template from the Policies & Procedures Pack and our Overnight Care Consent Form from the Care Plans & Consents Pack for a comprehensive Overnight Care package!

PLUS…

Coronavirus Risk Assessment template. – Revised March 2022 in line with updated guidance

Consider the additional risks, and safety measures you will keep in place following the pandemic.

AND…

Attractive Front Cover

Keep all your completed Risk Assessments together in an organised file.

Daily Risk Assessments & Safety Checks Sheet

Use this check list to help you to ensure your setting is safe and hazard free every day.

On one handy A4 sheet you can record your daily risk assessment checks for the whole month for each area of your setting.

Supplied as a PDF Form you can use your computer or tablet to simply tick off each safety check or, if you prefer, print out and complete by hand.

…and a helpful Safety Guidelines Chart 

A useful guidance sheet to display in your setting and refer to each day.

Please see the Further Details tab above for file format and supply information.

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