Child Safeguarding Policy

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In my setting, one of the main policies is the Child Protection and Safeguarding Policy. This policy ensures every child can enjoy the right to live their life free from harm or abuse or potential harm or abuse. The nursery ensures that the children are in a caring, supportive and safe environment, In the nursery, they also ensure children have unique talents and abilities, in which all children can learn and develop to their full potential. This allows the children to feel comfortable around others to share different beliefs without it being an issue. This sets clear guidelines for teachers to follow should an incident occur. This allows them to feel safe and protected and equips them with the knowledge of how to deal with the situations. …show more content…

This then becomes an incident of poor practise. Having this policy ensures that all children are safe and if the policy is not followed that there will be consequences. Teachers may be aware of the policy but may not have been brought through it and therefore are unclear of how the policy works. This means that they will be unaware of how to deal with a situation or who to report to if they feel that there may be a problem with a child. Teachers and parents may be unaware or the signs and symptoms of different types of abuse and may over look it. A way in which this could change is for the teachers to have a staff day in which they are brought through the policy step by step to understand it entirely. The policy could also be shortened down to step by step procedures of who to contact or different types of abuse and the signs that you should look out for as a way for parents to be able to read it and become more aware. this also allows parents to feel secure about their children attending the nursery as they understand that there is a policy in place that teachers must follow or there will be …show more content…

All staff should ensure personal mobile phones are stored in their lockers during school hours. Staff may issue family with the school land line number and this number should be used to contact members of staff should an emergency arise. Parents or Guardians must never take images of children within the grounds of the nursery or on school trips. All parents will have to give consent to allow their child to get photographed and this will then be done on a professional camera only by the teacher. Parents must also never answer a phone call around another child within the nursery. This ensures that all children’s identity is kept safe. This allows children to stay safe and protected as the images taken by the nursery will remain confidential. This allows parents to access images though the nursery and never through social media. Parents will be more confident in allowing their children to have their child’s photograph taken through the duration of the years in the nursery. Consent from parents will also be updated every six months but the parents will also be reminded before events within the nursery or school outings to ensure that they are still comfortable. They are also reminded that mobile phones are prohibited on trips in which the parents attend. Although this policy is in place and reminded, parents may ignore this policy. During school trips they may take images of their child. This could lead to other children

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