Visitors and Trips – Weighing the risks
Settings and families are becoming more confident about returning to pre-lockdown activities, and each must make their own call, says Laura Hoyland
Safeguarding
Rebuilding Your Staff Team, Part 2 – Change for good
Now is the time to encourage staff to see change as a positive process and to reflect on their practice and identify any areas for improvement, explains Jo Caswell
Ofsted: best practice guide–safeguarding - Open and honest
- Inspection | Management | Careers & Training | Safeguarding & Child Protection | Ofsted: best practice guide
How can settings ensure that staff are fully trained up on safeguarding procedures? Hannah Crown looks at good practice at Little Rainbows Day Nursery
Safeguarding - FGM: A criminal act
What is female genital mutilation and how can those who care for young children take action if they suspect it of happening? Caroline Vollans reports
Guide to: Working Together Guidance
The Working Together to Safeguard Children guidance on multi-agency working was updated in June. So, what is new? Hannah Crown reports
Safeguarding, part 4: role of the DSL - Taking the lead
What exactly is expected of a ‘designated safeguarding lead’, legally and practically, asks Rachel Buckler
Safeguarding, part 3: Workforce - Capable hands
Many of the problems in safeguarding cases – lack of professional curiosity, inadequate information...
Safeguarding, Part 2: The EYFS - Be curious
How does the EYFS best support children in need of protection, and what happens in practice? Rachel...
Child Protection - In harm’s way
Understanding why child abuse happens, and the role of settings in protection. By Eunice Lumsden
Safeguarding, Part 1: The Current Climate - Too late
Many children in need are pre-school age, but early help is being cut. Rachel Buckler, trainer and...
Learning & Development: Digital Technology - A tangled web
- Practice | Understanding the World | Learning & Development | Safeguarding & Child Protection | Early Years Curriculum | More on ICT | Wellbeing
To prepare young children for life spent increasingly online, parents and early years practitioners...
Unpicking Ofsted Reports, Part 1: Safeguarding - falling short
In the first of a new series looking at common issues highlighted in Ofsted reports, Pennie...
Guides & Resources
Policies & Procedures
A five-part series by Laura Henry on creating and implementing the policies and procedures you need for your childcare setting.
Safeguarding
What are the current challenges in social care, and how does this impact on the early years practitioner? What about recent reforms? Safeguarding expert Rachel Buckler provides this guide to safeguarding in the current climate.
Children & Social Work Act
Your guide to this legislation which gained royal assent in 2017 and covers changes to local safeguarding and the social work profession, relationships education, and the concept of corporate parenting.
Ofsted Inspections
Former Ofsted inspector Debbie Alcock covers everything from safeguarding to disqualifications, allegations, preparing for inspections, and understanding Ofsted terminology.
Enabling Environments: Risk - Be safe
A new guide to keeping children safe has been published by the Pre-school Learning Alliance
Children’s Services Update - New system
The current safeguarding system has been in operation for many years.
Children and Social Work Act, Part 3: Looked-after Children - Corporate parenting
Ann Marie Christian sets out how the Children And Social Work Act is aiming to strengthen the 30-year-old idea of ‘corporate parenting’
Training Talk - Prevent
Danielle Butcher has become more aware of risky behaviour after going on an early years- specific Prevent course. By Gabriella Jozwiak
Nursery Management: Policies - ‘Run, hide, tell’
In the wake of the recent spate of terrorist attacks in London and Manchester, some settings are revising their emergency policies. Meredith Jones Russell reports
Children’s Services Update - Be curious
The death of ‘Polly’ from Derbyshire, a 21-month-old, resulting from her being ‘stamped on’ by her mother, leaves a horrible feeling of ‘here we go again’, says John Simmonds
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