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Work Matters: Welfare Requirements Part 12 - On record

Management
The records and information that early years providers must keep on the children in their care are outlined in the last of our series by Laura Henry.

Documentation is the last of the five welfare requirements of the Framework for the EYFS (see box).

Links to:

- Every Child Matters Outcome: Helping to keep children safe, Helping children to enjoy and achieve, Making a positive contribution and Economic wellbeing/organisation;

- Former National Standards: 14 - documentation.

Overarching general requirement

Providers must maintain records, policies and procedures required for the safe and efficient management of the settings, and to meet the needs of the children.

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Specific legal requirements

Policies and procedures that need to be in place: (Providers need to make cross-references with the other welfare requirements)

Operational issues

Providers must record the following information on every child:

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