The Importance Of Legislation Relevant To School Policies And Procedures
National legislation and Local guidelines play a major role in how school policies and procedures are developed and which are relevant to safeguarding children and young people and how they affect the day to day work with children and young people
School safeguarding policies and procedures are drawn up by schools and all schools must ensure that they adhere to them as these are legal obligations according to the law in the UK. School policies constitute a number of agreed statements and beliefs. Guidance in regards to school policies development is provided by the Local Safeguarding Childrenâ€TMs Boards which encourages schools to collaboratively work together, sharing good practice and information with other organizations that work with children and young …show more content…
All schools have policies and procedures that cover: Admissions, Arrivals and departures such as:
All schools ensure that they have a record of all children and young people who arrive to school daily via a register of attendance, this helps to ensure that there is record of all children in school on that particular day, it also helps to ensure that all children are accounted for in the event of a fire or bomb evacuation, this register is also done at the end of the day to ensure that all children are present who attended during the day and that no child is left behind or lost etc
Parents require making prior arrangements with schools in the event of children appointments for
Drâ€TMs, Dentist, etc, to remove their children to take them to their appointments. Childrenâ€TMs parents a also provided with passwords to keep safe and that they require to be given to a family member who has never picked up the child from school before, this password has to be disclosed to
School safeguarding policies and procedures are drawn up by schools and all schools must ensure that they adhere to them as these are legal obligations according to the law in the UK. School policies constitute a number of agreed statements and beliefs. Guidance in regards to school policies development is provided by the Local Safeguarding Childrenâ€TMs Boards which encourages schools to collaboratively work together, sharing good practice and information with other organizations that work with children and young …show more content…
All schools have policies and procedures that cover: Admissions, Arrivals and departures such as:
All schools ensure that they have a record of all children and young people who arrive to school daily via a register of attendance, this helps to ensure that there is record of all children in school on that particular day, it also helps to ensure that all children are accounted for in the event of a fire or bomb evacuation, this register is also done at the end of the day to ensure that all children are present who attended during the day and that no child is left behind or lost etc
Parents require making prior arrangements with schools in the event of children appointments for
Drâ€TMs, Dentist, etc, to remove their children to take them to their appointments. Childrenâ€TMs parents a also provided with passwords to keep safe and that they require to be given to a family member who has never picked up the child from school before, this password has to be disclosed to