Student safety and welfare

Attendance and readiness

• ✓ Arrive a few minutes early, dressed and ready, and report absences through the normal JL route. This helps classes start on time and settled for everyone.
• ✓ Warm-ups matter. A late dancer waits for the teacher’s acknowledgement before joining.
• ✓ After the trial period, wear the class uniform, correct safely fitted footwear, secure long hair and remove jewellery that could catch or injure.
• ✓ Reasonable adjustments for religious, cultural, sensory, disability or medical needs are covered in Behaviour, equality and inclusion.

Illness, injury and medication

• ✓ Keeping medical, allergy and support information current is covered in the Enrolment terms and conditions. Please also tell us about a new illness, injury, medication or support need as soon as it happens, so we can look after your child properly.
• ✓ Stay home with vomiting, diarrhoea, fever, contagious illness or when the dancer is not well enough to participate safely.
• ✓ Do not push through pain. Tell the teacher about an injury before class so we can adjust what they do safely.
• ✓ Medication, including emergency medication, is the parent’s responsibility to manage. Please talk to us in advance if your child needs an arrangement in place at JL, and we will agree what is needed case by case.

Arrival and collection

• ✓ Parents are responsible until a clear handover and from the stated finish time.
• ✓ JL releases children to an authorised collector or through recorded independent-departure permission, agreed with you in advance.
• ✓ Tell JL about a one-off collector change before collection; an unfamiliar adult may be asked to confirm identifying information.
• ✓ If collection is late, JL supervises the child and calls contacts. If nobody can be reached and the delay becomes a safeguarding concern, JL may seek agency advice.

Health, safety and first aid

• ✓ JL reviews proportionate risk assessments for premises, activities, equipment and events.
• ✓ Teachers use age-appropriate progression, suitable equipment and safe class capacity.
• ✓ JL provides first aid within staff competence, contacts the parent and calls emergency services when needed.
• ✓ Accidents and significant near misses are recorded and legally required reports are made where applicable.
• ✓ If something about safety does not fit your situation, use the Questions and complaints route in the Enrolment terms and conditions.

Fire and evacuation

• ✓ Leave immediately by the nearest safe route when the alarm sounds or staff direct it, so everyone gets outside safely and quickly.
• ✓ Do not collect belongings. Go to the assembly point at the car park fence across from the building, and remain with the group.
• ✓ If you arrive during an evacuation, please let the responsible teacher know before taking your child from the assembly point, so we can keep an accurate count of who is safely out.
• ✓ Nobody re-enters until the fire and rescue service or responsible person says it is safe.

Lost property

Related policies

Legal and guidance basis

These sources explain the legal or official-guidance background. Not every practical JL rule is imposed by a particular Act: where it is JL’s own rule, it is written to be clear, proportionate and consistent with the sources below.

• DfE: Safeguarding guidance for out-of-school settings Current safeguarding guidance for activity and tuition providers in England.
• HSE: Health and safety basics Official guidance on risk assessment, safe premises, first aid and incident reporting.
• Fire safety risk assessment for places of assembly Government guidance under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
• Equality Act 2010: guidance for service providers Official guidance on discrimination and reasonable adjustments.