Please be confident that your child is in experienced, safe hands at our nursery with staff who are concerned with your child’s overall health and wellbeing – emotional, social and physical.

Absent from Nursery

If your child is unwell, or not attending for any other reason, please telephone 01698 274969 to make nursery staff aware of the absence.

 Risk Assessment

We follow national and local authority guidance on risk assessment in line with regulations, but we also take a risk/benefit approach – meaning we are mindful of the benefits of children being supported to assess risks for themselves and to set their own challenges.

Accidents/Incidents

Any accident that happens to a child in the nursery will be brought to the attention of the parents with a full written explanation, which parents are asked to sign to indicate they have been made aware of any incident.

Illness/Medication

Staff have a duty to ensure that all children in the nursery are safe and not at risk of infection. Many childhood illnesses are contagious so we need to consider the health of other children and staff. If your child becomes unwell during their time at nursery a member of staff will contact you to come and collect your child.  If you are unavailable then we will contact the child’s emergency contact as stated on their Enrolment Form.

If your child is unwell, we ask that you use your discretion in deciding whether or not to bring your child to nursery. North Lanarkshire Council’s policy guidelines state that, if your child has sickness/diarrhoea, then they should remain at home for at least 48 hours after their symptoms have stopped.  Staff can advise the recommended exclusion period for particular illnesses.

We can administer medicines prescribed by your doctor with your written permission.  Please explain this to your child’s key worker or a member of management when your child arrives at nursery so they can take details from you and ask you to sign a consent form.

Allergies
If your child has any allergies/food intolerances could you please let a member of staff know so we can take the appropriate measures to support this.

Child Protection

We will support parents who are coping with stressful situations at home.  We will act in accordance with the law and our own procedures if we believe a child to be at risk of ‘significant harm’.  This may involve working with other agencies to protect children.

Every adult in Scotland has a role in ensuring all our children and young people are safe and protected from harm at all times and in all situations.

The Head Teacher is responsible for child protection concerns.  If there are any child protection concerns or issues the Head Teacher will follow North Lanarkshire Council guidelines.

Child Protection Co-ordinator is:       Carrie Nicol  HT

Telephone Number:                         01698 274969