Policies and Documents
Our Policies
A complete set of our centre policies are open to all and are available to read in our nursery library.
- Able Gifted and Talented Children
- Absence Management (Sickness) Policy
- Accessibility and Equality Plan
- Admissions Policy 2023 – 2024
- Admissions into The Nest 2023 – 2024
- A message to parents: Our Vision
- Anti-Bullying
- Arrivals and Departures Policy
- Attendance Policy
- Banning Parents from School Premises
- Behaviour Policy
- Biting Policy
- Bullying and Harassment Policy and Procedure
- CCTV and Surveillance Policy
- Charging and Remissions Policy
- Children in Care Policy
- Code of Conduct for All Adults
- Communication and Language Policy
- Complaints Policy
- Confidentiality Procedure and Guidelines
- Data Protection Policy
- Debt Policy
- Developing Independent Learning
- Equality and Diversity Policy
- Equality Information
- Equality Information and Objectives
- Expressive Arts and Design Policy
- Fire Policy
- First Aid
- Flu Pandemic
- Freedom of Information
- Grievance Procedure
- Guidance for Safer Working Practice
- Health & Safety Classes and Groups
- Health & Safety Policy
- Healthy Eating
- Homerton’s Curriculum Statement
- Homerton Pay policy 2022
- Homerton Privacy Notice – Governors,Trustees and Volunteers
- Homerton Privacy Notice – Job Applicants
- Homerton Privacy Notice – Parents and Carers
- Homerton Privacy Notice – Pupils
- Homerton Privacy Notice – School Workforce
- Homerton Privacy Notice – Suppliers of Goods and Services
- Homerton Privacy Notice – Visitors
- Induction Procedures for New Families and Children
- Intimate Care Policy
- Keeping Children Safe in Education
- Literacy Policy
- Mathematical Development Policy
- Medicine Policy
- Missing children policy
- Online Safety Policy
- Outdoor Play Policy
- Over-Subscription Criteria 2023 – 2024
- Owlets Admissions Policy 2023 – 2024
- Homerton Early Years Centre Terms and Conditions
- Parental Partnership
- Personal Social and Emotional Development
- Play Policy
- Physical Development Policy
- Physical Intervention Policy
- Policy for Children in Care
- Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy
- Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy COVID-19 Addendum
- Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy COVID-19 Appendix
- Safer Employment Policy
- Security Policy and Procedures
- Serial and Unreasonable Complaints
- Sickness Policy
- Special Educational Needs/Disability (SEND) Policy
- Staff Induction Policy
- Students and Volunteers Policy
- Sun Protection Policy
- Supporting Vulnerable Children
- Recruitment and Selection Policy and Procedure
- Responding to Prejudice Related Incidents Policy
- Retention Document Pupil Records
- Teaching English as an Additional Language
- Terms and Conditions – Homerton Early Years Centre
- Uncollected Children Policy
- Understanding the World
- Use of Professional Social Media Accounts
- WhatsApp Acceptable Use Agreement
- Whistleblowing Policy and Procedure
Download Homerton’s Ofsted reports from here:
Homerton Early Years Centre inspection (combined Nursery, Nest and Owlets) Homerton Early Years Centre Ofsted Report July 2021
Financial Information
Strategic Goals 2023-24
SEND Information
We have a strong offer for SEND children who are well supported and have excellent outcomes as a result.
Early Years Pupil Premium
Prevent Duty and Fundamental British Values
Where there are safeguarding concerns:
We will endeavour to provide a safe and welcoming environment where children are respected and valued. The Nursery will therefore be alert to signs of abuse and neglect and will follow the Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) procedures to ensure that children receive appropriate and effective support and protection. Parents/carers should know that the law requires all Nursery staff to pass on information which gives rise to a concern about a child’s welfare, including risk from neglect, physical, emotional or sexual abuse. The Nursery should make parents/carers aware that records of welfare concerns may be kept about their child. They should be informed that Nursery staff will seek, in general, to discuss any concerns with them including referrals to other agencies. However, in situations where the child is suspected to be at risk of harm, the law says that Nursery may take advice from other agencies without informing parents/carers. In accordance with local Information Sharing protocols, we will ensure that information is shared securely and sensitively. Information will only be shared with other services where it is deemed necessary and proportionate to ensure that children and young people are safe and receive the right service. Nurseries will seek advice from Social Care when they have reasonable cause to suspect a child may be suffering or likely to suffer significant harm. Occasionally, concerns are passed on which are later shown to be unfounded. Parents/carers will appreciate that the member of staff in the Nursery with responsibility for child protection (known as the Designated Person for Child Protection) was carrying out their responsibilities in accordance with the law and acting in the best interests of all children. Under Section 3 (5) of the Children Act 1989, Nurseries or any person who has care of a child “may….do what is reasonable in all the circumstances of the case for the purpose of safeguarding or promoting the child’s welfare”. This means that on rare occasions, a Nursery may need to “hold” a child in Nursery whilst Social Care and the police investigate any concerns further
Home Learning at Homerton:
During the Covid 19 pandemic, if we are in a strict lockdown period, we move to delivering on-line learning for those children who are at home.
Our on-line learning package consists of a weekly planning sheet of activities for families to follow.
There are also daily morning activities and an evening tea time story. These can be accessed via our twitter account @HomertonEYC, or by scrolling to the bottom of our home page on the website. There is also a live weekly zoom story, song, and rhyme session on a Wednesday where children can see their friends whilst also enjoying these activities. The link for this zoom is sent out on the morning of the zoom.
Paper Copies
Paper copies of any section of the website can be provided free of charge.