Missing Child Procedure

Procedure in the event of a child going missing — ETT Sports Limited

1. As soon as it is observed a child maybe missing, one member of staff to collect the register and conduct a roll call of all the children.
2. One member of staff to check the premises to ascertain whether the child may be ‘hiding’.
3. If the child cannot be found the most senior member of staff to phone the police and the parents.
4. Whilst awaiting the police one member of staff to continue to search the premises, whilst the other staff ensure the safety of the other children is not compromised.
5. Ofsted and the Brent LADO must be informed of a significant event.

Contacts

• Report a serious childcare incident — GOV.UK — 0300 123 1231
• Family.FrontDoor@brent.gov.uk — Telephone: 020 8937 4300 (Option 1)

Prevention and good practice

• As a matter of routine and good practice children should be counted when moving from inside to outside play areas and vice versa, and when moving from one room to another.
• Registers must be completed immediately and record children’s exact times of arrival and departure.
• Parents must sign children in and out.
• A child who unexpectedly ceases to attend the setting, and whose safety and welfare cannot be proven, will be treated as a missing child and reported to the local authority safeguarding team in which the child is resident.

Date: 03/01/2023 — Review date: 31/12/2027 — Ernest Toquie