We will give a warm and friendly welcome to each child on arrival and ensure that they depart safely at the end of the session.
We keep accurate, daily records of the arrival and departure times of children, staff and visitors. The registers are kept in an accessible location at the club. We perform periodic checks throughout the session.

Escorting children from school to the club
When children are escorted between their school and the club, the following procedures apply:

• We will ensure that a thorough risk assessment is carried out and regularly reviewed.
• We will ensure that a register of children who require escorting between the school and the club will be kept by the school and the club.
• A regular meeting place for the children will be established within each school. This will normally be the reception area.
• In the case of after school activities, we will liaise with the school to agree how the child will be escorted to the club.
• At no time will any child, under eight years of age, be asked to make their own way to the club.

Collection of your child

• Only persons aged sixteen years and over, with suitable identification and named on the Admissions Form will be allowed to collect your child.
• We may use a password as additional proof of identity.
• Only in emergencies can other adults be nominated to collect your child. We require written, or in an extreme emergency, verbal permission from you.
• In the event of an authorised adult arriving, whilst under the adverse influence of alcohol or drugs:
• We will not allow the child to be removed from the premises.
• We will attempt to contact another adult named on the admissions form.

Please note that when you drop off or collect your child from the club, any other siblings or persons bought onto the site by yourself will remain your responsibility at all times.

Late Collection
If the you or your nominated adult is going to be late collecting your child, we must be informed as soon as possible.

Should no one arrive to collect your child within ten minutes of our closing time and we have not had any prior contact from you or your nominated adult, we will follow the procedures set out in our Non-Collection of Children policy.
Please note that, you may incur an additional charge should your child be collected after closing time.

Children leaving the Club alone
Permission and arrangements for children leaving the Club alone must be agreed with us and written consent will be required before commencing. No child under the age of 8 will be allowed to leave the Club unaccompanied.