Policy statement
We recognise that children sometimes move to another early years setting before they go on to school, although many will leave our setting to enter a nursery or reception class.
We prepare children for these transitions and involve parents and the receiving setting or school in this process. We prepare records about a child’s development and learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage in our setting; in order to enable smooth transitions, we share appropriate information with the receiving setting or school at transfer.
Confidential records are shared where there have been child protection concerns according to the process required by our Local Safeguarding Children Board.
The procedure guides this process and determines what information we can and cannot share with a receiving school or setting.
Procedures
Transfer of development records for a child moving to another early years setting or school
Using the Early Outcomes (DfE 2013) guidance and our assessment of children’s development and learning, the key person will prepare a summary of achievements in the seven areas of learning and development.
The record refers to:
– any additional language spoken by the child and his or her progress in both languages;
– any additional needs that have been identified or addressed by our setting;
– any special needs or disability, whether a EHH was raised in respect of special needs or disability, whether there is a Statement of Special Educational Needs.
For transfer to school, we provide a summative report of their learning journey taken from Eylog. We email this report to the school and ask if they require any further information.
We have built strong relationships with schools in the neighbouring areas, as well as some independent schools in Twickenham, Ealing and Chiswick.
Transfer of confidential information
The receiving school or setting will need to have a record of any safeguarding or child protection concerns that were raised in our setting and what was done about them.
We will make a summary of the concerns to send to the receiving setting or school, along with the date of the last professional meeting or case conference.
Anything to do either with a EHH referral ‘below-the-threshold-of-abuse’ can only be shared with the permission of parents.
Where there has been a s47 investigation regarding a child protection concern, we will pass the name and contact details of the EHH on to the receiving setting or school – regardless of the outcome of the investigation.
We post (by secure method) or take the information to the school or setting, ensuring it is addressed to the setting or school’s designated person for child protection and marked as ‘confidential’.
We do not pass any other documentation from the child’s personal file to the receiving setting or school.