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Buyer's Guide: Health and Safety - Take good care

Equipment & Resources
Looking after young children's welfare embraces not just secure entry systems to nursery buildings, but everyday products for hygiene, reports Mary Evans.

Nursery managers must ensure they have effective policies, procedures and equipment to enable them to safeguard the security and welfare of the children in their care.

The range of kit available spans high-tech ICT gadgets such as key-fob entry systems (see case study) to basics such as wet wipes and finger guards for windows and doors.

'Finger guards for doors have been on the market since the year dot,' says Kevin Davenport of nursery supplier the Whole Kaboodle. 'But they are just as important now as they ever were, as you need to protect those little fingers.

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