Safeguarding
At Halesowen Day Nursery we have three Designated Safeguarding Leads: Sarah Walker, Emily Hobday and Melissa Farrell. Although these team members are responsible for taking the lead with safeguarding matters and undertake additional training to support their position, all practitioners have an awareness and an understanding, through mandatory training, of all matters related to safeguarding children and follow our related policies and procedures.
The toys, resources and equipment are subject to rigorous and regular sterilising and risk assessments. Further risk assessments and safety checks (inside & outside) are done on a daily basis before the nursery opens for business. Where appropriate, risk/benefit assessments are completed with the children when they have new equipment, we encourage them to think critically about issues such as: what could happen? How can we prevent it? What is a safe way to play on/with this? And so on.