Source · Care Inspectorate

Castlebay Primary Nursery

Provider Comhairle nan Eilean Siar Type Day Care of Children Location Isle of Barra Last graded 6 Jul 2025

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

Key Question scores

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

Requirements & recommendations

0 requirements · 2 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: 3 June 2025
Recommendation 1

1. To ensure that children receive consistently positive outcomes, the manager and staff should develop their approach to quality assurance that leads to improvement. This should include, but is not limited to, evaluating and responding to the quality of children's facilities, safety and progress in learning and development. This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which states "I benefit from a culture of continuous improvement, with the organisation having robust and transparent quality assurance processes." (HSCS 4.19)

Recommendation 2

1. To ensure that all children receive inclusive and responsive care and support, staff should undertake learning and implement a nurturing approach in relation to meeting children's varying needs. This should include but is not limited to, developing a better understanding of how to respond to children's emotions and behaviours, developing a strengths based approach to recording observations of children's behaviour and using information gathered to develop strategies that support meeting children's needs. This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which state that : "I am treated as an individual by people who respect my needs, choices and wishes.” (HSCS 1.6)

Registry facts

Service no: CS2005106314
Provider no: SP2003002104
Ownership: Local Authority
Registered places: 37
Registered: 2 November 2005
Council area: Na h-Eileanan Siar
Health board: Western Isles
Integration authority: Western Isles
Risk band: MEDIUM