The pack includes guidelines on behaviour management, staff development, child protection, special needs, admissions and settling in, parental involvement, complaints, curriculum, confidentiality and equal opportunities.
All the guidelines are new, apart from the SPPA's policy documents on child protection and complaints, which have been updated.
SPPA membership services officer Mags Harwood said, 'This was a result of demand from our member groups. We thought it would be useful to provide them with a model they can use off the sheet or adapt.' The behaviour management policy stresses that 'children will never be smacked, shaken, humiliated, ridiculed, isolated, threatened or made to feel unwanted or undervalued by any adult while in the care of the group', and says that the group will 'aim to treat everyone as an individual while encouraging self-awareness and an appreciation of how an individual's actions affect others'.
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