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If you have nursery visitors, you have responsibilities to adhere to. Nurseries should be welcoming places for legitimate visitors with genuine reasons to be on site. These could be prospective parents, parents who have volunteered as helpers, officials such as local authority inspectors and day-to-day contractors required for servicing and maintenance of the premises. Common…
Continue reading "What are your responsibilities to visitors of your nursery?"What is the Insurance Act 2015 and how will it affect me? you might ask. The short answer is: a lot. It has made significant changes to the law in relation to business insurance and applies to all policies entered into from 12 August 2016. In fact, it is the biggest change within the insurance industry…
Continue reading "The Insurance Act 2015 and my nursery"Is your nursery recruitment process legally compliant? Recruitment and selection is an inevitable and integral part of running any childcare establishment. Ensuring that your recruitment and selection process is legally compliant with regards to equal opportunities is always of paramount importance. What should you take into account if an applicant suffers from a condition which…
Continue reading "Nursery recruitment policy, Is your’s legally compliant?"Recent press release and coverage show dot2dot do nursery insurance right! BOLTON-BASED Stanmore Insurance Brokers are celebrating after breaking the £2million mark in premiums for their specialist nursery insurance scheme dot2dot. The firm launched the enterprise back in 2003 to provide comprehensive cover and bespoke packages to the childcare sector. Since then dot2dot has grown…
Continue reading "dot2dot nursery insurance break the £2m mark!"At first glance, the fact that we have a female Prime Minister again suggests that the perceived glass ceiling that women face in the political and business worlds has been shattered. However, a report recently published by the Institute for Fiscal Studies showed that gender pay gaps are still a big problem. On an hourly…
Continue reading "Meet the men and women who are redressing the UK’s gender imbalances"Thinking of self-managing your Nursery building project? Think again More and more nursery clients are contacting us to discuss their business developments which are including extending their premises to accommodate more children, renovating properties into nurseries and in some cases building new nurseries. This is all very exciting for the clients and it is wonderful…
Continue reading "Building, Extending or Renovating your Nursery? Thinking of Project managing it yourself? Think again"Talking to your insurance adviser is not often a high priority when changes are taking place in a business. We would like to explain why this is important with the support of one of our clients, Jon Higgins from Shooting Stars Nurseries, who has a group of five settings. Jon’s business has changed considerably since he set up…
Continue reading "Are you talking to your insurance adviser? The importance of this simple task"Nurseries inevitably create a vast array of paperwork, while looking after the children in their care. So, completing the correct documentation is a necessary part of nursery life, both to comply with the sector’s regulatory bodies and as good business practice. However, it also plays a pivotal role in the defence of allegations of negligence….
Continue reading "The power of words – Run a nursery? Don't use a shredder!"With the upcoming referendum, where British voters will decide if the UK is to remain part of the EU or to leave the EU threw up a couple of questions for us here at dot2dot nursery insurance. We wanted to know how an EU exit by the UK might affect the Nursery Industry Will we…
Continue reading "Will UK employment law be simpler if we leave the EU?"With the upcoming referendum, where British voters will decide if the UK is to remain part of the EU or to leave the EU threw up a couple of questions for us here at dot2dot nursery insurance. We wanted to know how an EU exit by the UK might affect the Nursery Industry. A British…
Continue reading "What might Brexit mean for Health & Safety in the Nursery?"