safegurading parental responsibility

[Jesslane1992]

can anyone help me please on these to safeguarding question I have look at my nursery policy but it dos,ent give me much information and I am stuck

If a parent arrived at the setting in the morning and said she had argued with dad this morning and he left the house and she doesn’t want him to collect the child tonight. Would we be able to stop the parent with parental responsibility collecting a child? How would you deal?

So, if a person with PR turns up and asks for the child, is the provider legally bound to hand the child over?

Thanks so much for the help Jess.

[Ruthierhyme]

Hi, yes, unless there are safeguarding concerns the setting is legally obliged to release a child to anyone with parental responsibility for the child. Who has parental responsibility would of been established when the child was enrolled at the setting.

If there is a genuine concern for the child being collected by a person with parental responsibility then the police should be involved.

To ensure you're acting inline with the setting's policies and procedures it would be best practice to let senior management know of the situation so that everyone is aware of what's happening.

About parental responsibility https://www.gov.uk/parental-rights-responsibilities

and here: https://www.gingerbread.org.uk/infor...esponsibility/


Page 6 of this book explores parental responsibility (use the amazon preview feature in the print book & scroll down)





Hope this helps