Policies and Procedures
For discussion of methods and policies employed in Early Years settings.
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This is a question for any of you who are based in private day care settings. We invoice our parents monthly and up until recently we did not charge parents for bank holidays. However, we have always paid our staff on these days although they do not attend work. We have recently amended our fee structure and have decided to charge parents for these bank holidays (apart from the ones between xmas and new year) We have had a number of irate parents enquiring about this new implementation and very unhappy to pay it. Do your settings charge for bank holidays? OR are you open on bank holidays??? Advice appreciated Rebecca
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I know we are supposed to have drinking water available at all times and would like to provide this. At the moment children can have their snack as and when. In the summer I ask parents to bring a named water bottle but apparantly Ofsted want the children to be able to pour their own at any time.This isnt a problem in the summer months because we are outside for most of the sessions. Do you end up with lots of cups to wash up.? In the past every child had a named cup but I have 70 children now and it wouldn't be easily managed.
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Biting Policy?
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Hi. Don't know if anyone on here can help us as we are at our wits end in our nursery at the moment. I have had a quick search on here but couldn't find anything but would be very grateful to any links to or advice on policies for biting incidents. We have a youg girl that is 3 in Sept and bites regularly and another girl in our baby roon who s 17 months that has also been biting. the older one is able to understand when she is taken out of the room and sat down on our 'chill out' chair with a staff member to talk to her. She seem to fully understand that she has done wrong and promises to be kind to her friends. We have 'Teeth are not for biting' which we read regul…
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Nappy Bins
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Hi. Having just read Myhenroxanne's post about her rubbish dilemma, I was having a little think and was wondering about nappy bins. Not the Sangenic ones indoors, but the collection of contaminated waste. At a nursery I worked in, we used to dispose of our nappy bins into those big metal bin things and the bin men would collect them as they do with usual 'household' waste. This went on for ages, until one day, the bin men knocked at the door and announced that they weren't taking the bins anymore, because they couldn't tell which bins had nappies in. We then had a problem getting rid of the nappies because we couldn't get anyone to take them, and we couldn't reall…
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Intruder Policy
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Can anyone help? I'm trying to write an intruder policy and I was wondering if anyone had one I could look at for some inspiration. I'm finding it really difficult to think in this heat. Thankyou
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Late Collection
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Am having some trouble over the Late Collection Policy. At the moment, if a child is late being collected at the end of the day, then 2 staff wait until the child is collected. On the majority of cases when a parent/carer is late, they have not rung to let us know. Usually staff have to wait for no more than 10 minutes, but in the past, before I was there, they waited nearly an hour, and as the nursery had no policy/procedure, they did not know what to do, and whether they should ring Social Services. 1. What does your policy say? I want to find out if there is a common timescale that people wait. I asked our EYs advisor, and I asked the Ofsted lady when she…
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Crb
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I am trying to find out what the current procedure is here, as some colleagues seem to think it is still ok for volunteers to do an occasional morning as long as they do not take children to the toilet and are never left alone with children. Others have said this is no longer accepted without first being CRB checked. I know the Safeguarding Vulnerable Peoples Act may make a difference, but would like to know for sure. Thanks
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Help Old Cd Rainbow Fish
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a while ago i saw an idea about making rainbow fish with old cd,s but cant remember where i saw it a friend is being observed on monday and she is doing the story of the rainbow fish and i said about this idea as an extension activity. can any one help
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Inclusion Policy
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Does anyone have an Inclusion Policy that they can give me pointers with please Im in Kent and recently went on a new Funding Conference - we have to have certain criteria in place by end of July or else we will not receive funding One of them is an Inclusion Policy - we have a SEN and an Equal Opps but apparently not sufficient Also we have to have a 3 Year Business Plan, which I havent a clue how to start Any help please, Im desperate
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Dressed For The Weather
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During the very hot weather one of the boys wanted to take off his tee shirt. My gut reaction was to say no but are there actually any guidelines on this (We are a preschool setting and this was indoors) Al
