Feel Safe

• Key People

  Our key people have a vital role to play in developing secure attachments with their key children providing a settled and close relationship. We hope through this bond the children will feel independent, happy and secure enough to explore and try out new things in our rich learning environments

  Key people at Childbase focus on children's emotional well-being by nurturing close, trusting and supportive relationships. Practitioners continually pay attention to and spend quality time with their key children in all aspects of their day to ensure their needs are met and feelings accepted.

  Each key person will develop strong relationships with parents and children during settling in sessions, daily contact and also nursery events to ensure they show effective shared care for each child. We invite parents to view and add to their child's learning journey as well as include them, through newsletters and our whiteboard's, to become involved in nursery activities or to replicate or add to them in their home experiences.

• Keeping Safe

  Childbase practitioners believe that all young children are vulnerable and have the right to be safe and protected. Key people encourage every child at each stage to take appropriate risks and learn how to keep safe including an awareness of their own safety in active experiences. In our circle times for older children we reflect and use specific stories and scenarios to illustrate.

  A secure environment is of paramount importance to us at Childbase. We are proud of the first class environment we provide for the children in our care, and of the personal qualities and skills that our managers and staff bring to the task of caring for children in a way which develops the potential of each child.

• Audits

  Childbase have appointed health and safety consultants who review and audit all practices on a regular basis. This includes health and safety, fire and risk assessments. All staff complete mandatory training to ensure health and safety requirements are observed throughout the company's nurseries and in all work activities.

• Secure access system

  We have a secure door entry system at all nurseries, only allowing access through the main front door following admittance by a nursery staff member.

• Authorised Collection

  Through our collection policy we only allow authorised family or friends to collect a child. Permission is only granted if authorised by the parent and identification is required before access is granted.