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Management Queries - Should staff cover up tattoos?

Our panel discusses whether early years settings should tell staff to cover up their tattoos, or allow them to be on show. By Gabriella Jozwiak

Q. Do other settings have a policy on employees’ tattoos? Do you allow them to be on show? Just for the record, I have them myself but wonder if I should have a written policy in case I employ someone with a tattoo that is perhaps scary or inappropriate.

Liza Webb, area manager, Wind In The Willows Childcare

‘We don’t have a policy on this and it has never really been an issue. When I was younger my mum told me I could not get a tattoo because I would never be able to get a job if I did! But attitudes have changed and it’s commonplace to have them.

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