Policies

Policies and Procedures

We follow many policies and procedures here at Seesaw which are regularly updated. Please feel free to have a look at some of them listed below -

Constitution

An Introduction to our policies

Introduction to our policies
0 Policy and procedures implementation and review
0.0 Implementation and review procedure

01 Health and safety policy

01.01 Risk assessment

01.02 Group rooms, stairways and corridors

01.03 Kitchen

01.04 Children’s bathrooms/changing areas

01.06 Short trips, outings and excursions

01.07 Outdoors

01.08 Staff cloakrooms

01.09 Maintenance and repairs

01.11 Staff personal safety

01.12 Threats and abuse towards staff and volunteers

01.13 Entrances and approaches to the building

01.14 Control of substances hazardous to health( COSHH)

01.15 Manual handling

01.16 Festival (and other) decorations

01.17 Jewellery and hair accessories

01.18 Animals and pets

01.20 Notifiable incident, non-child protection

01.21 Emergency evacuation and lock down

02 Fire safety policy

02.01 Fire safety

03 Food safety and nutrition policy

03.01 Food preparation, storage and purchase

03.02 Food for play and cooking activities

03.05 Meeting dietary requirements

04 Health Policy

04 Health policy

04.01 Accidents and emergency treatment

04.02 Administration of medicine

04.03 Lifesaving medication and invasive treatments

04.04 Allergies and food intolerance

04.05 Poorly children

04.05A Infection control

04.06 Oral health

05 Promoting inclusion, equality and valuing diversity policy

05.01 Promoting inclusion equality and valuing diversity

06 Safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults’ policy

06 Safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults' policy

06.01 Responding to safeguarding or child protection concerns

06.02 Concerns and allegations of serious harm or abuse against staff or agency staff

06.03 Visitor or intruder on the premises

06.04 Uncollected child

06.05 Missing child

06.06 Incapacitated parent

06.07 Death of a child on site

06.08 Looked after children

06.09 E-safety

06.10 Key persons supervision

07 Record keeping policy

07.01 Children’s records and data protection

07.01A Privacy notice

07.02 Confidentiality, recording and sharing information

07.03 Client access to records

07.04 Transfer of records

08 Staff, volunteers and students’ policy

08 Staff, volunteers and students' policy

08.01 Recruitment checks

08.02 Staff deployment

08.03 Deployment of volunteers and parent helpers

08.04 Student placement

09 Early years practice policy

09.01 Waiting list and admissions

09.01A About our early education and childcare

09.02 Attendance and absence

09.03 Prime times - The role of the key person

09.04 Prime times – Settling in and transitions

09.05 Establishing children’s starting points

09.06 Prime times – Arrivals and departures

09.07 Prime times – Baby and toddlers’ mealtimes

09.08 Prime times - snack time and mealtimes (older children)

09.09 Prime times - intimate care and nappy changing

09.10 Prime times – sleep and rest times

09.12 Promoting positive behaviour

09.13 Identification, assessment and support for children with SEND

09.14 Prime times – Transition to school

09.15 Progress check at age two

10 Working in partnership with parents and other agencies

10 Working in partnership with parents and other agencies policy

10.01 Working in partnership with parents and other agencies

10.02 Complaints procedure for parents and service users

Other policies

11.0 Babysitting policy

12.0 Biting policy

13.0 Use of mobile phone policy