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S2 Apply legislation, policy and procedure to protect the health, safety and wellbeing of children in the setting (accidents, incidents, and emergencies)

This short film from STV News shows a mother’s reaction after her son ‘escapes nursery and wanders home alone’. What are your setting’s policy and procedures for a missing child? What are your procedures for ensuring all the children are safe withing the setting? Who is responsible at your setting for ensuring that doors and outdoor spaces are secure?

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Find and read your setting’s policies and procedures on:
‘Early Years Foundation Stage: Statutory framework from the Department for Education
‘Types of reportable incidents’ from the Health and Safety Executive
‘Childcare: reporting children’s accidents and injuries’ from Ofsted
‘Childcare: significant events to notify Ofsted about’ from Ofsted

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‘Emergency planning and response for education, childcare, and children’s social care settings’ from the Department for Education
‘Responding to emergencies’ from the Early Years Alliance
Laser reading text: ‘Who’s in charge?’
‘Fire Safety: What Nurseries Need to Know’ from Teach Early Years
‘Early Years practitioners: using cyber security to protect your settings’ from the National Cyber Security Centre

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Find out more about emergency use of adrenaline auto-injector (AAI) devices on children who are at risk of anaphylaxis but whose own device is not available or not working.
Find out more about emergency use of salbutamol inhalers for use when a child with asthma cannot access their own inhaler.
This section of the UK Trauma Centre’s website is about ‘Critical Incidents in Educational Communities’ and how to provide a comprehensive and compassionate response to traumatic events that affect children and young people in their care.
This article looks at ‘Fire Safety for Children’ on the Childcare website.
The School Run website includes this article on ‘Lockdown procedures in primary schools’. What are your setting’s policies for lockdowns, also known as invacuation?
Thise document is the Department for Education’s 'Lockdown template’. Does your setting use something similar?
Now look at guidance specifically aimed at schools from the Health and Safety Executive ‘Incident Reporting in Schools (accidents, diseases and dangerous occurrences)’

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