Source · Care Inspectorate

Sgoil Araich an Tairbeart

Provider Comhairle nan Eilean Siar Type Day Care of Children Location Isle of Harris Last graded 1 Oct 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
4
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: 9 September 2025
Recommendation 1

1. To better support children’s wellbeing, learning, and development, the service should strengthen its planning processes for play and learning. This should include, but not be limited to, ensuring planning is child-centred, with regular sharing of observations, achievements, and next steps that show children's progress.

This is to ensure that care and support is consistent with the Health and Social Care Standards (HSCS) which state that:

'I am supported to achieve my potential in education' (HSCS 1.27); and 'As a child, my social and physical skills, confidence, self-esteem and creativity are developed through a balance of organised and freely chosen extended play, including using open-ended and natural materials' (HSCS 1.31).

Recommendation 2

1. To improve outcomes for children, the manager and provider should ensure that self-evaluation and quality assurance impact on improved experiences for children. This should include, but not be limited to, gathering and responding to people's views and auditing practice. This is 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).

Registry facts

Service no: CS2012306628
Provider no: SP2003002104
Ownership: Local Authority
Registered places: 24
Registered: 20 August 2012
Council area: Na h-Eileanan Siar
Health board: Western Isles
Integration authority: Western Isles
Risk band: MEDIUM