Policies, Procedures, Safeguarding & SEND
Policies & Procedures
Our policies and procedures are stored in the management office and are all available at any time for you to review. Please contact our Nursery Manager, Hollie Dootson.
Safeguarding
At Vale Street Nursery, we thoroughly believe that children have the right to be completely secure from both the fear and reality of abuse, and we are committed to protecting all the children in our care from harm.
The Nursery dedicated Safeguarding Officer who is the manager. The Safeguarding Officer has suitable experience, training, and expertise, and is responsible for liaising with social services, the Local Safeguarding Children’s Board (LSCB), the Early Years department and Ofsted in any Safeguarding matter.
The Nursery Safeguarding Children procedures comply with all relevant legislation including the Children Act 1989, the Children Act 2004 and other guidance or advice from the Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB). These are currently ‘Safeguarding Our Children’ and ‘What to do if you’re worried a child is being abused’ poster and booklet.
The Nursery is committed to reviewing its Safeguarding policy and procedures at regular intervals. The policy and its procedures will be shared with parents/carers during their child’s settling in period.
SEND
Please see a copy of our SEND policy.
Online Safety
At nursery we strive to keep our children safe when using technology. The following link may help you in delivering online safety at home. Keeping children safe online | NSPCC
Operation Encompass
Vale Street Nursery is committed to participating in the Operation Encompass partnership scheme. It is an initiative that has been implemented across the whole of the Lancashire police area with local nurseries, schools, academies, colleges and community health agencies and is a means of providing appropriate and timely support to young people affected by domestic abuse. It was set up to provide early reporting to us about any domestic abuse incidents that occur outside of our operational hours to which a child attending our setting has been exposed and which might have an impact on them the following day. The nominated ‘Encompass Key Adults’ (a Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL)/Deputy DSL ) will be able to use the information, in confidence, to make provision for possible difficulties experienced by children and their families and to provide access to support and immediate early intervention dependent on the needs and wishes of the child. The Key Adult will keep the information confidential and will only share it on a need to know basis.
Please access the link below for further advise
https://www.operationencompass.org/
Letter to parents
Our Pedagogy
Our pedagogy is to allow children to explore and learn through modelling the correct behaviours, whilst letting them explore and investigate in a safe and comfortable environment being there to support children when they may need.
For children to have confidence and abilities to explore and learn, they need to feel safe, secure and supported. Practitioners are nurturing, comforting and use positive and encouraging language to promote children’s emotional wellbeing and self-confidence. We embed and promote play based learning, meeting individual needs and maintaining positive relationships.