“SERIOUS AND SIGNIFICANT CONCERNS”: WHAT THE CARE INSPECTORATE SAY ABOUT FIFE NURSERY

A spokesperson for the Care Inspectorate said, “An inspection has identified serious and significant concerns about the quality of care experienced by children at Cardenden Primary School Nursery.

“We understand this is a difficult and distressing time for children, their families and staff at the service.

“However, our first priority is always the health and wellbeing of children.

“Because of our concerns we have issued an Improvement Notice to the service. This sets out the significant improvements that must be made within a specified timeframe.

“We are in contact with and monitoring the service to follow up on the required improvements.”

The Improvement Notice to Fife Council states, “By 9 July 2025, the provider must keep children safe and protected from harm by ensuring that staff do not use inappropriate physical intervention when supporting children. To do this, the provider must, at a minimum:

 a. ensure that it has a comprehensive policy on the use of restrictive practice in place which takes account of the Care Inspectorate’s policy position on the use of restrictive practice. This policy must be made available to all members of staff

 b. record the monitoring of staff practice to ensure staff consistently adhere to the service’s policy on the use of restrictive practice

 c. ensure staff implement the policy on the use of restrictive practice, record any instances of inappropriate physical intervention and report such instances to the Care Inspectorate

d. ensure leaders take appropriate action to address staff conduct when staff do not comply with the policy on the use of restrictive practice.”