Policies and Procedures

The Early Years Foundation Stage Register

Supertots Policies and Procedures - Evidence of Practice

Setting the standards for the learning, development and care for children from birth to five.

In our setting we believe that every child deserves the best possible start in life and support to fulfil their potential. A child’s experience in the early years has a major impact on their future life chances. A secure, safe and happy childhood is important in itsown right, and it provides the foundation for children to make the most of their abilities and talents as they grow up. When parents choose to use our service they want to know that the provision will keep their children safe and help them to thrive. The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is the framework that provides that assurance.

The overarching aim of the EYFS is to help young children achieve the five ‘Every Child Matters’ outcomes of staying safe, being healthy, enjoying and achieving, making a positive contribution, and achieving economic well-being by:

• Setting the standards for learning, development and care young children should experience when they are attending a setting outside their family home, ensuring that every child makes progress and that no child gets left behind;
• Providing for equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice and ensuring that every child is included and not disadvantaged because of ethnicity, culture or religion, home language, family background, learning difficulties or disabilities, gender or ability;
• Creating the framework for partnership working between parents and professionals, and between all the settings that the child attends;
• Improving quality and consistency in the early year’s sector through a universal set of standards which apply to all settings, ending the distinction between care and learning and providing the basis for the inspection and regulation regime;
• Laying a secure foundation for future learning through learning and development that is planned around the individual needs and interest of the child, and informed by the use of ongoing observational assessment.

Policies and Procedures

We are required to produce written policies, procedures and documentation to both provide evidence of how we meet the Welfare and Learning and Development requirements of the EYFS and to illustrate how we endeavour to ensure that our setting runs efficiently and effectively.

All our staff must understand our policies and procedures and continually implement them in a consistent manner. In the first instance they are fully discussed and agreed by the staff group.

As they are ‘living documents’, they are included in both the staff and parent/carer induction arrangements. They are also available to registered users on the Supertots website.

They are monitored and reviewed on a regular basis or when changes occur.

We also ensure that our policies and procedures comply with other legislation e.g. health and safety, fire safety, planning, building control and environmental health.

Our policies and procedures are made available for inspection by Ofsted.