Please be aware we need a minimum of 2 days provision to be able to accept your registration

Monday - Friday, All day (8am-6pm), Mornings (8am - 1pm) or Afternoons (1pm - 6pm)

Early Start Nursery is open 51 weeks of the year, with the exception of public and bank holidays.
I. The Nursery will close, including in term-time, for a minimum of two inset days per year; for mandatory staff training requirements. Dates will be provided four weeks in advance
II. A non-refundable admin fee of £50 must be paid to hold a place. Once all paperwork has been completed, a tentative offer of a place will be made until a refundable deposit has been paid. The refundable deposit will be based on the nursery service required. Booking will be completed on receipt of the deposit
III. Nursery fees are calculated on a weekly basis, multiplied by 51 weeks and then divided into twelve equal amounts: this applies even if your child only attends in term time.

15 HOURS PLACE ONLY and in receipt of Early Education Entitlement
a. A deposit of £30 must be paid to hold a place. Once all paperwork has been completed, a tentative offer of a place will be made.
b. Your child is registered to receive the following early education entitlement only (if you wish to extend your hours you will need to pay for the extra hours – please request (see point I and II for fee information etc) Two year old free entitlement 15 hours x 38 Weeks (term time) = 570 hours for eligible families only) Three + year old universal offer 15 hours x 38 Weeks (term time) = 570 hours
A termly charge will be payable every term for lunch/afternoon tea and a contribution towards consumable materials.

IV. Fees are to be paid on the first day of each month by standing order. You MUST inform us in advance if fees are paid by a process that may mean they will not be in our account on the first of the month: ie childcare vouchers; tax credits etc
V. Children may be excluded from nursery if fees remain outstanding beyond five days and registration may be terminated
VI. ESE reserve the right to serve a statutory demand, pass unpaid fees to enforcement for collection and/or charge interest on overdue fees
VII. Fees and Terms and Conditions are subject to revision to enable the safe and effective running of the nursery. There will be an annual increase in childcare fees
VIII. One months’ notice is required to withdraw your child from nursery or to change or cancel any sessions. Fees are still payable even if you withdraw your child early from nursery. Make sure to provide a month’s notice
IX. There is no reduction in fees due to: Sickness: holidays; public and bank holidays; or inset training days
X. Early Start reserve the right to charge parents an additional fee for dropping off their children earlier or collecting them later than their booked session time. If your child is not collected by end of session (morning 1pm and afternoon/full day 6pm) you will be billed at a rate of £10 per 15 minutes, and part thereof, and for every 15 minutes or part thereof
XI. If your child is suffering from an infectious illness and/or has been prescribed antibiotics by a medical practitioner, child may not attend for 48 hours. Please refer to the section on EXCLUSION PROCEDURE FOR ILLNESS/ COMMUNICABLE DISEASE
XII. The Nursery reserves the right to refuse admission to any child who appears too unwell to attend
XIII. Please provide minimum one complete change of clothing and label your child’s clothing. We do provide a lost property box, but accept no responsibility for any items that go amiss
XIV. Please do not send a special toy etc to nursery with your child. ESE accept no responsibility for any items that go missing/are broken
XV. Early Start has a duty of care to all children and an obligation to report to governing bodies any incident, in which we consider a child has been abused and/or neglected. This may be done confidentially without informing the parent
XVI. Parents/carers are responsible for registering their children on arrival / departure. You must inform us who will be collecting your child. If this changes throughout the day you must contact us to tell us who will be collecting your child/emergency contacts. We must hold on file information (including photo ID) of this person and you must provide us with their unique password. Failure to provide this information may result in us not allowing your child to leave the setting with an unregistered adult
XVII. Parents/carers are responsible for informing us in writing of any changes to their child’s essential information, including addresses, telephone numbers and any medical conditions or allergies
XVIII. Before your child starts we will need to see evidence of which people have parental responsibility (PR) for them or legal contact with them (full birth certificate, court orders). If circumstances change, including a person with PR being prevented from contact with the child, it is the parents responsibility to update the nursery including providing proof of non-molestation order/court order
XIX. To attend in time for breakfast your child needs to be in by 8.50am, otherwise you will need to feed them before they come in
Refundable deposit: this will be held on account by ESE Ltd for the whole of the period that your child attends nursery. Normally it will be deducted from your final bill. However, it may be used to cover are any outstanding fees at any point.

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Access to information and confidentiality
At Early Start we believe that an open access policy is the best way of encouraging participation. You are welcome to see the records on your child, but we ask that you pre-book a time/make an appointment so that sufficient staff are available. Information on your child will be kept securely in paper form and on a secure online learning journal. Some essential information will be held in a file about each child within the nursery room, to enable staff to provide for their care and education. You may look at this file to ensure that you are comfortable with basic information being held in the room. All staff are aware that information about your child and family is confidential. If, however, a child is considered to be at risk, our Safeguarding Children Policy will override confidentiality.

Your rights in connection with personal information
Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to:
• Request access to your personal information (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
• Request correction of the personal information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
• Request erasure of your personal information. This enables Employees or Parents/carers to ask us to delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal information where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below).
• Object to processing of your personal information where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
• Request the restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables Employees or Parents/carers, as is appropriate, to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information about you for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.
• Request the transfer of your personal information to another party.
If you want to review, verify, correct or request erasure of your personal information, object to the processing of your personal data, or request that we transfer a copy of your personal information to another party, please contact the setting manager in writing.

Right to withdraw consent
In the limited circumstances where you may have provided your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of your personal information for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw Your consent for that specific processing at any time. To withdraw your consent, please contact the setting manager. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your information for the purpose or purposes You originally agreed to, unless we have another legitimate basis for doing so in law.
Please see our full privacy notice Privacy Notice

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Disease\Illness and Minimum Exclusion Period
Antibiotics prescribed - 48 hours exclusion
Vomiting - If sent home ill, child must be off for 48 hours (from last vomiting spell)
Conjunctivitis - If eyes are weepy they must stay at home. May come in with treatment/without treatment if eyes are not weepy, parent needs to come in to administer eye drops as ESE will not administer
Diarrhoea - 48 hours (from last diarrhoea)
Chickenpox - Keep child off nursery until they are no longer infectious, which is until the last blister has burst and crusted over. This usually happens five or six days after the rash begins
Gastro-enteritis, food poisoning, salmonellosis and dysentery - Until authorised by District Community Physician
Hand, foot and mouth disease - Until blisters have disappeared
Infective hepatitis - 7 days from onset of jaundice
Measles - 7 days from appearance of rash
Meningococcal infection - Until recovered from illness
Mumps - Until the swelling has subsided and in no case less than 7 days from onset of illness
Pertussis (whooping cough) - 21 days from the onset of paroxysmal cough
Poliomyelitis - Until declared free from infection by District Community Physician
Scarlet fever and streptococcal infection of the throat - Until appropriate medical treatment has been given and in no case for less than 3 days from the start of the treatment
Tuberculosis - Until declared free from infection by District Community Physician
Typhoid fever - Until declared free from infection by District Community Physician
Impetigo - Until the skin is healed
Pediculosis (lice) - Until appropriate treatment has been given
Plantar warts - No exclusion if treated and covered
Ringworm of scalp - Until cured
Ringworm of body - Seldom necessary to exclude, provided treatment is being given
Scabies - Need not be excluded once appropriate treatment has been given
Oral Thrush - Until appropriate treatment has been given

Children who are ill
It is at the manager’s discretion whether or not to allow a child into nursery if they are showing signs of illness, even if there is no exclusion period, if this is after any exclusion period has passed or if a doctor has stated that they are not infectious. The Manager will need to take into account the demeanour of the child and whether they are well enough to participate in nursery activities. They must also consider whether allowing a sick child in nursery would affect the staff to child ratios, as children who are unwell may require continual one to one attention. If we allow a child showing signs of illness or who has recently recovered from an illness into nursery then we will monitor them regularly and will contact parent/s to ask that they are collected if they become unwell again.
Injury on Arrival
If we notice your child has an injury on arrival, or soon after as may only be visible during personal care, we will ask you to complete and sign a form evidencing how the injury happened and what action was taken. If the staff have any suspicions of abuse and/or neglect it will be reported to the Designated Safeguarding Officer who will then follow the guidelines laid out by London Safeguarding Children’s Board, which includes reporting concerns to local Children’s Services Departments.

Please check the box below to acknowledge you accept the Exclusion Procedure For Illness/ Communicable Disease