COVID-19 Policy Response Plan
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Given that communication between staff and parents will be reduced for the most
part to drop off and collection times, management and staff will use alternative ways
to communicate with parents e.g. email, text, phone, children's scrapbooks, letters,
notes, individual meetings that can take place outdoors.
Actions to prevent adults and children with symptoms of COVID-19 from
entering the service
Staff: Health and Safety Authority return to work protocol
Before returning to work all staff must complete a pre-return to work form
at least
three days in advance of returning to work. This form should seek confirmation that
the staff member to the best of their knowledge has no symptoms of COVID-19,
that they are not self-isolating, that they are not a close contact of a person who is a
confirmed or suspected case of COVID-19 in the past 14 days or awaiting results of a
COVID-19 coronavirus test.
If a staff member is identified as being in the "at risk or vulnerable category", the
Service will carry out a risk assessment with the staff member and identify what
controls can be put in place to support the staff member's safe return to work. The
staff member can also discuss any concerns they have about returning to work with
their medical practitioner. It is recommended in the Return to Work Safely Protocol
that vulnerable or at-risk staff should be preferentially supported to maintain a physical
distance of 2 meters, however while this may be possible between staff, this will be
challenging if not impossible to implement while working with young children.
