Abbotsham and Alwington Pre-school Policies 1 Abbotsham and Alwington Pre-school Policies Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Online Safety Policy ....................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Complaints procedure .................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Confidentiality policy ..................................................................................................................................................................... 9 Equality and diversity policy ........................................................................................................................................................ 10 Equipment and resources policy ................................................................................................................................................... 12 Food and drink policy .................................................................................................................................................................. 13 Parental involvement policy ......................................................................................................................................................... 14 Settling in Pre-school policy ........................................................................................................................................................ 15 The non-collection of children policy .......................................................................................................................................... 16 Inclusion Policy ............................................................................................................................................................................ 18 The Role of the Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator ............................................................................................................ 23 Lost Child Policy .......................................................................................................................................................................... 24 Administration of medicine within Pre-School ............................................................................................................................ 25 Mobile Phone/Devices Policy ...................................................................................................................................................... 26 Whistleblowing Policy ................................................................................................................................................................. 27 Employment ................................................................................................................................................................................. 29 Recruitment and Retention Policy ................................................................................................................................................ 32 Toileting and Intimate Care Policy .............................................................................................................................................. 33 No-smoking .................................................................................................................................................................................. 35 Achieving positive behaviour ....................................................................................................................................................... 36 Managing children who are sick, infectious, or with allergies ..................................................................................................... 42 Sickness Policy ............................................................................................................................................................................. 46 Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy.................................................................................................................................... 48 Further safeguarding information and contact details: ................................................................................................................. 55 Escalation Policy in respect to the safeguarding of children ........................................................................................................ 59 Student placements ....................................................................................................................................................................... 61 Induction of staff, volunteers and managers ................................................................................................................................. 63 Health and safety general standards ............................................................................................................................................. 64 Admissions ................................................................................................................................................................................... 68 Emergency Policy ........................................................................................................................................................................ 71 Preventing Extremism and Radicalisation Policy ........................................................................................................................ 72 Staff Code of Conduct .................................................................................................................................................................. 76 British values ................................................................................................................................................................................ 80 Preventing Extremism and Radicalisation Policy ........................................................................................................................ 83 Transfer of records to school ........................................................................................................................................................ 87 Privacy notice ............................................................................................................................................................................... 89 Information sharing ...................................................................................................................................................................... 93 Children’s records ........................................................................................................................................................................ 98 Parental involvement .................................................................................................................................................................. 101 Late collection policy ................................................................................................................................................................. 104 lockdown procedure ................................................................................................................................................................... 105 Fire Safety Policy ....................................................................................................................................................................... 107 Lone Working Policy ................................................................................................................................................................. 109 CCTV POLICY .......................................................................................................................................................................... 110 2 Abbotsham and Alwington Pre-school Parents – in our Pre-school we aim to make clear that Pre-school welcomes both mothers and fathers, other relatives and carers including child minders, whenever the word ‘parent’ is used this understanding should be acknowledged. 3 Abbotsham and Alwington Pre-school Introduction Policies help us to provide good quality provision. They do this by making it clear to staff and parents what sort of Pre-school we want to be and what needs to be done. All staff and parents should be involved in adopting, implementing and reviewing policies so that they can influence the way the Pre-school is run. Adopting policies • Copies of the policies to be adopted will be made available to all parents and staff. • A meeting to discuss and adopt the policy will normally be held. This will enable everyone to discuss and agree the policy’s aims and methods. Implementing policies • All new staff will be introduced to the Pre-schools policies. • It will be explained to all parents and staff that the policies are the rules for running the Pre- school and being a member involves agreeing to keep them. Reviewing policies • Each policy will be continually