Policies

Times

If your child will be absent on the day they usually attend, please contact the Pre-School on either number, before the session or as soon as possible to let us know. Someone will be within the setting from 8am each morning.

If you are late collecting your child, you will be charged £10 per 15 minutes your child is in Pre-School after 12:15pm or 15:30pm. These charges apply whether your child is in receipt of Free Early Education or not.

Collection

If for any reason you will not be collecting your child yourself, you must let Pre-School know at the beginning of the session, or as soon as your circumstances change. For your child’s safety and security, if someone other than the nominated people within the enrolment pack are collecting your child, they MUST provide us with the password you write on your enrolment forms.

This person must be over 16 years old.
It is your responsibility to remember the password.
The password must be kept on our record, in writing, using the form within the enrolment pack.

Mobile Phones

We operate a no mobile zone. This means parents, staff or visitors entering the building cannot use their mobile phone unless in the Manager’s Office. This is also a part of our safeguarding policy. Your child deserves your full attention when collecting them from the Pre-School and will be happy to see you and talk about their day, please engage with them, and encourage this conversation.

CCTV

We use CCTV on our premises to protect our staff, children, and the building. It is for safety and security purposes that we use CCTV. Images are used internally only and are protected by The Data Protection Act.

Medication

We cannot give your child any medication unless it has been prescribed by a doctor. This includes Calpol/Nurofen / cough medicine. If your child is unwell enough to need any of these, they are NOT well enough to attend the setting. This is to prevent the spread of any germs, viruses, or illnesses.

Privacy

We, Little Acorns Pre-School Folkestone, are a data controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act. We collect personal information from you and may receive information about you from your previous school and the Learning Records Service. We hold this personal data to:

• Support your learning.

• Monitor and report on your progress.

• Provide appropriate pastoral care, and

• Assess how well we are doing.

Information about you that we hold includes your contact details and personal characteristics such as your ethnic group, any special educational needs and relevant medical information.

We will not give information about you to anyone without your consent unless the law and our policies allow us to.

We are required by law to pass some information about you to our Local Authority (LA) and the Department for Education (DfE). If you want to receive a copy of the information about you that we hold or share, please speak to myself, Mrs Tracy Neilly, Pre-School Manager.

If you need more information about how our local authority and/or DfE collect and use your information, please visit:

• Our local authority at: http://www.kent.gov.uk/about-the-council/contact-us/access-to-information/your-personal-information

Or

• The DfE website at: https://www.gov.uk/data-protection-how-we-collect-and-share-research-data

If you cannot access these websites, please contact the LA or DfE via the details below:

Information Resilience & Transparency Team

Kent County Council

Sessions House

County Road

Maidstone

ME14 1XQ

Email: dataprotection@kent.gov.uk

Ministerial and Public Communications Division

Department for Education

Piccadilly Gate

Store Street

Manchester

M1 2WD
Email: http://www.education.gov.uk/help/contactus
Telephone: 0370 000 2288