Lock up policy.

Aim

We aim to minimise the potential for any incidents to occur at our service as we close up each day by adhering to the following “lock-up” procedures. This will ensure the safety and wellbeing of all children at the service.

Implementation

At the end of our service operations each day, the Responsible Person present at the Service will

• Check all beds and cots to ensure no child is asleep in the bed or cot.

• Check the premises outdoors and indoors to ensure that no child remains on the premises after the service closes.

• Review the children’s attendance records to ensure all children who were signed in that day have been signed out. Check attendance records in the App and ensure all children are signed out by families/ educators through the digital sign in/out feature of the centres OWNA app.

If a child has not been signed out the Responsible Person will:

• If possible ask educators if the child was collected.

• Immediately conduct a search of the premises, indoors and outdoors to locate the unaccounted-for child if educators are unsure whether the child has been collected.

• Contact the child’s parents if the child is not located to see if the child was collected without being signed out.

• Contact the police if the child is missing.

• Immediately document a missing child incident using the Incident, Injury, Trauma, and Illness Record template published by the national authority ACECQA at www.acecqa.gov.au

• Notify the regulatory authority within 24 hours of the serious incident involving a missing child through the online NQA ITS.

• Turn off lights and air-conditioning.

• Shut blinds.

• Ensure taps and any outdoor sprinklers, hoses etc. are turned off.

• Ensure any animals kept at the premises are secured appropriately.

• Turn on alarm.

• Lock premises.

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