Q. What is your policy on staff mobile phones? We currently ask staff to leave them in the staff room while they are with the children. Some staff nip in to check their phones, and others are now reading messages on their smart watches. I’m worried about them being distracted from their work, but also safeguarding issues.
Roxanne Gregory, nursery operations and training manager, Abbotswood Day Nursery
‘We ask staff to leave their phones in a transparent box in the office when they come in for the day. They can come and get it on their lunch break, but have to sign it out, then back in again when they return it. That is a good way for us to monitor that their phones are not with them. The rule is the same for managers too – we give out our landline number and expect people to call that if they want to speak to management.
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