DASH Play Scheme

Activities: Staff work together as a team to plan a varied selection of interesting and challenging experiences.

Skills , Knowledge and Behavior: All children progress well and gain a wide range of skills to support their learning at school.

Communication: Staff communicate well with them and provide feedback about their children's activities and daily routines.

Programs and Resources: DASH is an inclusive holiday play provision including children who have special educational needs and/or disabilities.

Welcoming and Professional Staff: The manager implements good arrangements for recruitment, induction and vetting. This ensures new staff members are clear about their daily responsibilities and are familiar with the expectations.

Safeguarding Training: Staff and volunteers are knowledgeable about what procedures to follow if they have any child protection concerns.

Play and Learning Integration: Children are confident and self-assured to lead their own play. Staff offer them appropriate levels of support and guidance when required. They have access to a good selection of sensory and messy play activities to enable them to explore, investigate and be imaginative.

Child Safety Management: The premises are safe and secure for children. Staff carry out daily safety checks to quickly identify and minimise any potential hazards.

Children's Safety and Security: Staff effectively foster children's emotional well-being. They are caring and reassuring to children who are fairly new to the setting. This helps children to develop strong bonds and secure attachments and to settle quickly in their surroundings.

Happiness and Settling: Staff effectively foster children's emotional well-being. They are caring and reassuring to children who are fairly new to the setting. This helps children to develop strong bonds and secure attachments and to settle quickly in their surroundings.