Our Policies

Safeguarding and Promoting children’s welfare

• Children’s rights and entitlements
• Safeguarding children and child protection (including managing allegations of abuse against a member of staff)
• Critical incident
• Looked after children
• Confidentiality and client access to records
• Information sharing
• Uncollected child
• Missing child
• Supervision of children on outings and visits
• Maintaining children’s safety and security on premises
• Making a complaint

Equality of opportunity

• Valuing diversity and promoting equality
• Supporting children with special educational needs
• Achieving positive behaviour
• Physical handling policy

Promoting health and hygiene

• Animals in the setting
• Administrating medicines
• Managing children with allergies, or who are sick or infectious (including reporting notifiable diseases)
• Nappy changing
• No-smoking
• Food and drink
• First aid

Suitable people

• Employment and staffing (including vetting, contingency plans, training and development)
• Induction of staff, volunteers and managers
• Student placements
• Criminal records bureau policy & procedures

Suitable premises, environment and equipment

Health and safety:

• Risk assessment
• Health and safety general standards
• Fire safety and emergency evacuation
• Fire procedure
• Recording and reporting of accidents and incidents
• Food hygiene (including procedure for reporting food poisoning)
• Disabled access

Organisation

Administration:

• Admissions
• Registration form

Child care practice:

• The role of the key person in the setting and settling in

Partnership:

• Parental involvement
• Working in partnership with other agencies

Documentation

Record keeping:

• Children’s records
• Provider records
• Reserve policy