Arrival and Departure Procedures
Entrance to the Center will be through the locked security door, opened by using your Parent ID key card. Each family will be issued 2 ID cards.
On arrival the parent will:
- Personally take the child into the center.
- Sign the child in on the sign-in sheet, including time of arrival.
- Help the child take outdoor clothing off and wash hands.
- Give the child to a teacher and share any important information.
- Enter and exit the building by the designated door.
At departure time:
- If an activity is in progress, wait until it is completed, if possible.
- Help the child put on outerwear. Take belongs from cubby area.
- Notify the teacher you are taking the child.
- Sign the child out in the sign-in book.
Parents may declare additional adults they want to pick up their child from the Center by listing authorized names on the appropriate enrollment form. The staff will not release a child to anyone not listed on the form without written authorization by the parent. An unknown adult coming to pick up a child for the first time will need to show proper identification.
Custody
Parent or legal guardians may want to add or delete names from the authorization document. In the event that one parent wants to remove the other parent from the authorization form, it will be necessary to provide the appropriate legal documentation in order to do so. Unless we have the appropriate paperwork, we cannot keep a child’s biological mother or father from picking up his/her child.
The staff will not release a child to an intoxicated person for transporting from the Center. Staff will assist the apparent in contacting the emergency contact person, alternative means of transportation such as a cab (paid for by the parent) or the police, if necessary.
Bus transportation
Parents should discuss with the Center staff any variation in the child’s arrival or departure routine, especially regarding transportation from another school program to the Center via school bus or cab. A transportation authorization form may need to be signed.
Should a child not arrive as expected from bus or cab transportation, staff will be required to call the child’s school, the bus or cab company and notify the parent. Therefore, we require the parent to notify the center promptly if there will be change in the child’s routine transportation to the center.
handicapped door release
Please discourage a child’s use of the handicapped door release, unless there is a legitimate reason for opening the door with assistance, or to run ahead of you outside of the building. We request that children not leave the safety of the child care building without the accompaniment of the parent or adult who is picking them up.
