School Policies

Our school has a wide variety of policies, aimed towards providing the best possible care for anyone who visits or attends our school. For your convenience, here are a selection of policies that might be of interest to you.

If you would like a paper copy (or any other format) of any of our documents on our website please speak to the school office, who will provide them to you free of charge.  If you require further information on any of the items shown in this section, please contact the school and we will do our best to help.

• Accessibility Plan (2016)
• Attendance Policy (2018)
• Behaviour Policy (2018)
• British Values Policy (2018)
• Charging & Remissions Policy (2018)
• Complaints Policy 2017
• Confidentiality Policy (2018)
• Confidential Reporting Code
• Data Protection Policy 2018
• Data Protection Policy – Appendix 5 Data Breach 2018
• Educational Visits Policy (2018)
• Equality Policy & Objectives (2017)
• Health & Safety Policy (2018)
• Intimate Care Policy (2018)
• Looked After Children Policy (2018)
• Missing Child Policy (2018)
• Mobile Phone Policy for Parents, Carers & Visitors (2018)
• Packed Lunch Policy 2018
• Parental Use of Social Networking Sites Policy (2018)
• Parents Guide to Early Years Provision in County Durham
• Photographic Policy (2018)
• Prevent Policy (2018)
• The Role of the Key Person and Settling In Policy (2018)
• School Security Policy (2018)
• Special Educational Needs Policy (2018)
• Supporting Pupils with Medical Conditions Policy (2018)
• Uncollected Child Policy (2018)

Keeping Children Safe in School

• Keeping Children Safe in Schools- Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy 2018
  • Appendix 1 Roles, Responsibilities and Entitlements
  • Appendix 2 Signs and symptoms of abuse
  • Appendix 3 Behaviour guidelines for staff and volunteers
  • Appendix 5 Referral form for first contact
  • Appendix 6 Summary of Multi Agency Meetings
  • Appendix 7 Information sharing
  • Appendix 7b Information Sharing 2018
  • Appendix 8 The eight golden rules for information sharing
  • Appendix 9 The Brook Traffic Light Tool
  • Appendix 10 Guidance on sexting incidents
  • Appendix 11 Responding and Managing Sexting Incidents
  • Appendix 12 Sexual Harassment and Sexual Violence – Advice

Data Protection

Horden Nursery School collects and uses pupil information under the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Education Act 1996 which are a lawful basis for collecting and using pupil information for general purposes (and from Article 6 and Article 9 where data processed is special category data from the General Data Protection Regulation from 25 May 2018).

Horden – Nursery School – Privacy Notice 2018

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