Prevention measures and a fast, clear search-and-escalate procedure for a child missing from the setting or on an outing, with incident, search and review records.
Childcare
Lost or Missing Child Policy
About this document
Sets out how you prevent children going missing (secure premises, registers, head counts, outing risk assessments) and exactly what staff do, minute by minute, if a child cannot be found on the premises or on an outing. It covers calling the police, telling parents, notifying Ofsted and reviewing what went wrong.
The document is laid out in the sections below. Each one comes with a plain-English guidance note explaining what it does and what to change.
Our templates are professionally structured starting points for UK businesses, not legal advice. For anything complex, unusual or high-value, have your final version checked by a solicitor.
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