Policies & Procedures Contents

Introduction

Nursery details

Designated people

Contact sheet

About our childcare and early education

1. Safeguarding children 

Safeguarding children policy

Responding to safeguarding or child protection concerns

Concerns and allegations of serious harm or abuse against staff, volunteers or agency staff

Visitor or intruder on the premises

Uncollected child

Missing child

Incapacitated parent

Death of a child on-site

Looked after children

E-safety

Key person supervision

Whistleblowing

Prevent Duty

Misogyny and misogynistic attitudes and behaviour

FGM

County Lines

Child Abuse linked to Faith or Belief/ Witchcraft

Breast flattening

Infant Oral Mutilation

Peer on peer abuse

2. Health and safety

Health and safety policy

Risk assessment

Group rooms, stair ways and corridors

Kitchen

Children’s bathrooms/changing areas

Nappy changing

Milk kitchen

Short trips, outings and excursions

Outdoors

Staff personal safety

Threats and abuse towards staff and volunteers

Entrances and approach to the building

Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)

Manual handling

Physical intervention

Personal care

Festival (and other) decorations

Jewellery and hair accessories

Animals and pets

Face painting and Mehndi

Notifiable incident, non-child protection

Emergency evacuation and lock-down

Closed circuit television (CCTV)

Fire safety policy

Fire safety

Food safety and nutrition policy

Food preparation, storage and purchase

Food for play and cooking activities

Milk and baby food preparation and storage

Menu planning and nutrition

Meeting dietary requirements

Breast feeding

Health policy

Accidents and emergency treatment

Administration of medicine

Life-saving medication and invasive treatments

Allergies and food intolerance

Poorly/sick children

Managing a suspected case of coronavirus

Infection control

Oral health

Baby and child massage

3. Security and premises

Maintenance and repairs

Laundry area

Entrances and approach to the building

No smoking

Staff personal security including home visits

Procedure for accompanying visitors around the nursery

Unavoidable nursery closure

4. Children

Early years practice policy

Key person policy

Settling-in procedure

Managing separation anxiety in children under 2 years old

Arrivals and departures

Establishing children’s starting points

Sleep and rest times

Young children, intimate care and toileting

Baby and toddler mealtimes

Snack times and mealtimes (older children)

Managing Behaviour

Promoting positive behaviour

Child absence policy

Identification, assessment and support for children with SEND

Transition

Transition to school

Outside play and weather

Sun smart policy

Left handed children

Children’s rights and entitlements

Voice of the child

Weapon and superhero

5. Staff

Recruitment checks

Employment

Induction of employees and volunteers

First aid

Staff deployment

Deployment of volunteers and parent helpers

Student placement

Staff behaviour

Racial incidents

Staff Online Acceptable Use Policy

Supervision meetings

6. Equal Opportunities

Promoting inclusion, equality and valuing diversity

British values

7. Partnership working

Working in partnership with parents and other agencies

Parental involvement

Partnership with parents

8. Record keeping

Progress check at age two

Children’s records and data protection

Privacy notice

Confidentiality, recording and sharing information

Client access to records

Transfer of records

Information sharing

9. Complaints

Complaints procedure for parents and service users

10. Additional policies

Policy and procedures implementation and review policy

Sustainability and eco action plan

11. Appendix

Forms

Safeguarding incident reporting form

Confidential safeguarding incident report form

Low level concerns form – Communication Log

Care plan for looked after children form

Emergency evacuation plan

Health Care Plan

Allergy Action Plan 

Emergency Medication Form

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