S2 Apply legislation, policy and procedure to protect the health, safety and wellbeing of children in the setting (accidents, incidents, and emergencies)
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- 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
- Good Practice Example
- Presentation
- Reading Materials
- ‘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
- Presentation
- Reading Materials
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- 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)’
- Think And Challenge
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