Admissions Policy

Statement of Intent.

It is our intention to make our setting accessible to children and families from all sections of the local community.

Aim

We aim to ensure that all selections of our community have access to the setting through open, fair and clearly communicated procedures.

Methods

• We ensure that the existence of Sticky Mits advertised in places accessible to all selections of the community.
• We ensure that information about Sticky Mits is accessible, in written and spoken form. Where necessary, we will try to provide information in Braille, or through signing or an interpreter.
• We arrange our waiting list in birth order. In addition our policy may take into account the following; the vicinity of the home to the setting and siblings already attending the setting.
• We keep a place vacant, if this is financially viable, to accommodate an emergency admission.
• We describe Sticky Mits and its practices in terms that make it clear that it welcomes both fathers and mothers, other relations and other careers, including child minders.
• We describe Sticky Mits and its practices in terms of how it treats each child and their family, having regards to their needs arising from their gender, special educational needs, disabilities, social background religion, and ethnicity or from English being a newly acquired additional language.
• We describe Sticky Mits and its practices in terms of how it enables children and/or parents with disabilities to take part in the life of the setting.
• We make our equal opportunities policy widely known.