Source · Care Inspectorate

Lairg Primary School Nursery

Provider Highland Council Type Day Care of Children Location Lairg Last graded 27 Jun 2025

Recorded Key Question grade range: 3–4 — Adequate  View on Care Inspectorate

Key Question scores

Six-point scale
Support and wellbeing
Care and support planning
Setting
4
Staff team
3
Leadership
3
Care, play and learning
3

Requirements & recommendations

0 requirements · 3 recommendations

Verbatim text from the Care Inspectorate datastore. Requirements cite a specific regulation and deadline; recommendations are good-practice guidance against the Health and Social Care Standards.

Visit: 8 May 2025
Recommendation 1

1. To support positive outcomes for children, the provider should ensure that personal planning enables each child to receive appropriate care and support to meet their needs; and a) Ensure personal plans set out children’s current needs and how they will be met. b) Ensure all staff are aware of and understand the information within the personal plans and use this to effectively meet each child’s needs. c) Ensure staff are competent in completing chronologies and use these to take appropriate action to support children and their families. This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which state that: 'My personal plan (sometimes referred to as a care plan) is right for me because it sets out how my needs will be met, as well as my wishes and choices' (HSCS 1.15).

Recommendation 2

1. To improve outcomes for children and families, the management team should ensure that a strong ethos of continuous improvement is established. This should include but not limited to: a) developing robust quality assurance systems b) implementing effective audits c) developing monitoring processes to support a cycle of improvement. This is in order to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS), which state that: 'I benefit from a culture of continuous improvement, with the organisation having robust and transparent quality assurance processes' (HSCS 4.19).

Recommendation 3

1. To ensure children are safe and receive high quality experiences at all times the provider and manager should as a minimum, review and make appropriate changes to staff deployment, to improve experiences for children. This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which state that: 'I have confidence in people because they are trained, competent and skilled, are able to reflect on their practice and follow their professional and organisational codes' (HSCS 3.14).

Registry facts

Service no: CS2003017235
Provider no: SP2003001693
Ownership: Local Authority
Registered places: 30
Registered: 1 April 2002
Council area: Highland
Health board: Highland
Integration authority: Highland
Risk band: LOW