The Early Years Foundation Stage requires childcare providers to conduct risk assessments and review them regularly.
We check our home and garden every morning before the children arrive to ensure that it is a safe environment for them to play in. We also risk assess any environment that we take the children into, for example walking to school, the shops, library and toddler groups etc. If we are planning to take the children into environments that are unknown to us, we try to do a risk assessment in advance so we are aware of any potential hazards, although this may not always be possible.
We make a record of our assessments, and they are available for any parent to see on request.
