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Policies and procedures:
- Safeguarding
- Responding to safeguarding concerns
- Concerns, allegations of serious harm or abuse against staff
- Visitor or Intruder on the premises
- Uncollected child
- Missing child
- Incapacitated parent
- Death of a child on site
- Looked after children
- E-Safety
- Keyperson supervision
- Health and Safety
- Risk assessment
- Group rooms, stairways and corridors
- Kitchen
- Children's bathrooms and changing areas
- Milk kitchen
- Short trips
- Outdoors
- Staff cloakrooms
- Maintenance and repairs
- Laundry areas
- Staff personal safety
- Threats and abuse towards staff and volunteers
- Entrances and approach to the building
- COSH
- Manual handling
- Festivals and other decorations
- Jewellery and hair accessories
- Animals and pets
- Face painting and mehndi
- Notifiable incident - non child protection
- Emergency evacuation and lockdown
- Fire Safety
- Fire Safety procedures
- Food safety and nutrition
- 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
- Accidents and emergency treatment
- Administration of medicine
- Life saving medication and invasive treatments
- Allergies and food intolerance
- Poorly children
- Infection control
- Oral health
- Promoting inclusion, equality and valuing diversity
- Promoting inclusion, equality and valuing diversity procedures
- Staff, volunteers and students
- Recruitment checks
- Staff deployment
- Deployment of volunteers and parent helpers
- Student placement
- Coming inside
- MENU
- Working in partnership with parents and other agencies
- Working in partnership with parents and other agencies procedures
- Complaints procedure for parents, carers and service users
- Early Years Practice
- Waiting list and admissions
- Attendance and absence
- The role of the key person
- Settling in and transitions
- Establishing children's starting points
- Arrivals and departures
- Baby and toddler mealtimes
- Snack times and mealtimes
- Intimate care and nappy changing
- Sleep and rest times
- Managing separation anxiety in children under 2
- Promoting positive behaviour
- Identification, assessment and support for children with SEND
- Transition to school/new setting
- Progress check at age 2
- Outings and road safety
- Record Keeping
- Children's records and data protection
- Confidentiality, recording and sharing information
- Client access to records