Health and Safety
REGULATIONS AND STANDARDS
Guidance on Part 6 of the Regulations – Monitoring and Reviewing Children’s Homes
This chapter was added in February 2023.1. Principles
The physical environment for children must be safe and secure and protect them from harm or the risk of harm.
The manager and responsible individual must ensure that the physical environment is maintained to a high standard, meets the needs of the children and feels and looks like a family home for children. Any damage or wear and tear should be quickly and regularly repaired.
Risk assessments must be regularly reviewed and updated and comply with statutory requirements. Each Home will have their own specific Environmental Assessment.
2. Fire Precautions
After consultation with the fire and rescue authority for the area in which the Home is located, the registered person must:
- Take adequate precautions against the risk of fire, including the provision of suitable fire equipment in the Home;
- Provide adequate means of escape from the Home in the event of fire;
- Make arrangements for persons working at the Home to receive suitable training in fire prevention; and
- Ensure, by means of fire drills and practices at suitable intervals, that persons working at the Home and, so far as reasonably practicable, children are aware of the procedure to be followed in case of fire.
A record must be kept of every fire drill or fire alarm test conducted, with details of any deficiency in either the procedure or the equipment concerned, together with details of the steps taken to remedy that deficiency.
3. The Home's Health and Safety Policy
The Home has its own specific risk assessments and procedures within the home. Building safety checklists are undertaken weekly and Health and Safety posters are located in the home.
All staff have access to the Council's Health and Safety Policy.Further Information
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