Keeping Children Safe – SIMOA
At Ballerup we have our SIMOA mascot who reminds us about how to keep safe when we are at nursery and at home. Our children have created a SIMOA song for when we are accessing our local community, SIMOA can be used in a wide range of ways from closing doors, ensuring food is not too hot to preventing choking incidents. The SIMOA campaign helps us to ensure the wellbeing and safety of our children.
SIMOA says be:
Safe
Be alert to all potential risks in your setting.
Inspect
Look around and inspect the environment to make sure a child can’t leave an area without staff or their parent/carer.
Monitor
Regularly check that all children are accounted for particularly when they are outside, on outings or using transport.
Observe
Observe children and think about their feelings and emotional security – use these observations to support children to feel loved and secure.
Act
Assess and take action to keep children safe.
Please open the link attached to see the Care Inspectorate SIMOA poster.
