Author: Rossi

Admissions

February 2021

Policy Date: _________________________ / Policy Review Date: ___________________	This policy was reviewed and adopted by the Committee of Our Lady’s Pre-school. / Chair Signatory: _______________________

This policy runs alongside Confidentiality and Client Access to Records
This complies with the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage.
Legislation Links: Data Protection Act 1998, Human Rights Act 1998, Children Act 1989, Freedom of Information Act 2000
This is a non Statutory Policy
Policy statement
It is our intention to make our pre-school genuinely accessible to children and families from all sections of the local community. We aim to ensure that all sections of our community have access to the setting through open, fair and clearly communicated procedures.
We offer 15 & 30 hours of Early Education per week.
Procedures
We arrange our waiting list in order of date of birth.
We keep a place vacant, if this is financially viable, in order to accommodate emergency admissions eg: child in care.
We describe the pre-school and its practices in terms which make it clear that it welcomes both fathers and mothers, other relations and other carers, including child minders and people from all cultural, ethnic, religious and social groups, with and without disabilities.
We are flexible about attendance patterns so as to accommodate the needs of individual children and families.
Our pre-school belongs to the Catholic Parish of Our Lady of the Assumption and, therefore, Catholic children must be admitted before those of other religions ( This is the same for the waiting list). However our aim is to show respectful awareness of all the major events in the lives of the children and families in the pre-school and in our society as a whole and to welcome the diversity of backgrounds from which they come.
We take children the first term after they reach two and a half years.

We take Free for 2 funded children. This can be applied for by the parents/carers or the setting
FF2 children will attend the first term after they are 2years.
We offer places the term before a child is due to start.
We have a waiting list for those children who do not receive a place when they are eligible
We offer 15 & 30 hours of 3/4 year old funding.
This can be started at a smaller amount and increased to 15/30 hours.
The child is eligible for 15/30 hours the first term after their 3rd birthday.
Information will be collected about the child and their parents for these funding but it is protected by the Data Protection laws.
Useful Documents/links
https://www.gov.uk/data-protection

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