Should staff, and parents, be forbidden to use mobile phones at nursery so the children get their full attention? Melanie Defries asks settings about their policies and practice.

Q: Are staff permitted to use mobile phones while at work in your setting?

'Our mobile phone policy is that staff can bring mobiles into work with them, but that they have to be kept in lockers and turned off. Staff are only permitted to use their mobiles at break times and outside of the nursery or in the staff room, not within the nursery itself. However, staff do have access to the nursery landline in case of emergencies.'

'We have a basket that the staff deposit their phones into when they arrive at the nursery, so there are no issues at all with mobile phone use. We have had this policy for about a year and a half.'

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