Explain The Equality And Diversity Within The Wider Concept Of Safeguarding

Whilst working in a childcare setting, all members of staff must follow the safeguarding policy. At my setting the main points are health and safety, equality/inclusion and child protection.

Checking for hazards, both indoors and outdoors, is a crucial part of health and safety when working with children. At my placement, the staff do a risk assessment every morning before the children come in. This includes the garden as well as every room in the setting. By doing this, they are ensuring the safety of the children, and making sure that all risks are managed, or at least made aware of. Although they do a risk assessment every morning, a much more in depth assessment is completed once a month to ensure the safety of the building as a whole,
One way to do this is by creating an inclusive environment. At the nursery i’m at, they do this by ensuring they have multicultural dolls, dressing up costumes that are from different cultures as well as cards and games in different languages, e.g. Polish, Russian. This is to ensure that all of the children feel included and that they matter. They also take part in different cultural events around the world, such as Chinese new year. This is done by eating particular foods and making decorations that are relative to the event. Other ways that equality is shown is on mother/father’s day as some children may be from same-sex families and therefore will send cards to their mums/dads instead of it just being for one parent. This means that all children can participate in activities and not feel left out in any way because they don’t have a mum or dad, but they have two of
During registration and collection times safety is crucial for the children and the staff. At my setting the door is locked at all times, and may only be unlocked by a member of staff. This is because they will all know the parents and will know who is picking up/dropping off the child. If they do not recognise the adult then they will have to ask for identification and the “password” which would have been given by the parent. This is to ensure that the person collecting the child is who they say they are. The password is confidential and nobody else except the parents and staff should know it unless the parents have told someone who is collecting their child. The children are also signed in as they walk through the door by whoever opens it. It is very important that they do this straight away as they may not do the register for a little while after they have entered the building. If they are not signed in and there is a fire alarm then they may not know that the child is there. They are also signed out of the nursery as they are collected, and their parent/guardian will sign to say that they are now responsible for the