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This applies to Alamiyah Montessori and Alamiyah Home Education Centre. It sets out the arrangements that account for every child on site and off it, what happens if a child cannot be found, and how we contact you in an emergency.
At Alamiyah Montessori, we take the security and safety of children very seriously. Child safety and security is maintained as the highest priority at all times both on and off site. The outings procedure and the exit and entrance procedure ensure the security of children is maintained at all times.
The following systems are in place for the protection of the children:
An accurate and up to date register is kept of both children and adults, including visitors of when they enter and leave the premises.
All children are registered daily at the start of each session.
All exits from the premises are locked/guarded in a way that makes it impossible for a child to leave unobserved/unattended whilst allowing rapid exit for the whole group in the case of an emergency.
Information about new children is sought from parents/carers about particularly adventurous children so that the setting is forewarned.
No unauthorised adults are able to enter.
Both parents and children are informed where they may go and not go.
All children know the rules and the reasons for them.
If a child goes missing, the manager will follow a defined procedure to systematically find the child whilst ensuring that all the other children are kept calm and safely supervised.
If the child is not found within fifteen minutes, then the parents and police will be informed. The search will then be continued, using a wider area, if necessary, whilst keeping in touch at all times by mobile phone. If a child lives within walking distance, one adult will make the journey on foot in order to check whether the child may have started the journey home.
In an emergency, parents will be contacted using contact details provided on their child's registration form. If parents cannot be contacted, then the emergency contact details will be used as provided on the registration form. Please ensure that the emergency contacts are authorised as collectors.
If anything in this policy raises a question, please get in touch and we will talk it through with you.
How adults respond to behaviour without punishment.
Accidents, fire, food and allergies, and the rules that hold inside the building.
When to keep your child at home, how long to wait, and medicine during a session.
What happens when nobody arrives, from the first phone call to the two hour point.