Benger Bears Pre-School in the village of Sutton Benger in Wiltshire has tightened its safeguarding policy and changed its policy on outside trips since the EYFS and the Welfare Requirements came in.
'These have made us scrutinise our policies very thoroughly - looking, for example, at what happens when children leave the premises,' says supervisor Karen Swannack. 'We could see that when parents picked up children at the end of the day there was the potential for a child to slip out unattended, as the parents used to come into the main hall to pick up their children and sign them out.'
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