Nursery World - Nursery Management: Staff

A well-structured staff induction programme goes a long way to helping retain employees and brings huge benefits to both practitioners and settings, Nicole Weinstein discovers

Welcoming a new starter into the setting is a great opportunity to showcase your staff; your ethos; your achievements – and, most importantly, the relationships that staff have with the children in your care. First impressions are vital – and a well-planned induction which eases the new starter into the role, while helping them get to grips with policies and procedures – is key. But, as Debbie Garvey says in her book Performance Management in Early Years Settings, ‘it is now common practice to ask all new employees to read the tome of policies…and sign a piece of paper to signify they have read and understood [it]. In reality, this is often done in fear of litigation’.

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