To worry about this in the nursery

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That their front door is unlocked and anyone can access at any time, no one can see people enter either as the nursery office doesn’t face the front door? Surely this isn’t right

Absolutely I would be worried! Why haven't they got a lock on it? Sounds like kids can just walk out too?

That is weird most childcare settings are like prisons for getting in and out, I wouldn't like that either

What can people access through the front door?

Is it a vestibule and the other parts of the site are secure or is it once you are in, you are in?

Strange they don't have it locked. Every nursery I've worked in had a bell or buzzer.

Are the internal doors locked.

Like where can you go once in.

Im sure youll be mistaken.

Also, is it different at main drop off/collection times (when staff may well be deployed to check comings and goings) compared to all the rest of the time?

Does that give you full access to the building? That would worry me a lot on many levels.
Front door of ours is unlocked but it just goes into a foyer and the door from that is locked

That's really weird, and unlike any nursery I've known.

Can the kids get out as easily as adults can get in?

Yes very weird, the nursery I chose has a locked gate with a buzzer to get into the playground, and the main door to the building is unlocked. The other one I looked at had a main door off the car park that had a buzzer and was locked, and the playground was at the back and not accessible. Our primary school is the same. Yes I would be concerned.

And if anyone not on the list picks up they have to have a password and notify them in advance.

Thats very odd, I’ve looked around at least a dozen nurseries and none of them have had an unlocked front door or gate.

Where does that door go? Can you get in to the other rooms from there, is it a reception area?

That is very worrying.

I feel like surely there must be more to this because I simply cannot imagine a scenario where any parent would be ok with this or where it wouldn’t be breaching any safeguarding requirements.

Obviously it’s not ok. My child wouldn’t be attending a setting where anyone could come and go as they please, and where presumably children were also at risk of also getting out easily.

That can't be right?

Ours has a buzzer and a video camera if you come outwith the pick up times.

It goes into a reception kind of area but it doesn't have any staff there and then the others doors have codes on but anyone could just walk into the nursery without anyone knowing and the managers office door doesn't have a code either

That's disturbing, is it on a busy street? Could a child wander out?

I presume there is fire standards they have to make?

There are forest schools that are in public areas with no walls or means to keep children in and other adults out.