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Protection of children
16. The home's approach to monitoring and surveillance of
children and young people.
Monitoring
The high level of staff to young person ratio ensures that young people are always
carefully monitored and supported throughout their Waking Day. Some young
people have additional staff at certain times such as when visiting the
community. There are waking night staff and senior staff are on-call.
Surveillance and security
The entrance gates to Prior's Court School are operated on a key-pass and
intercom system to ensure security and prevent unauthorised entry. There are
two CCTV cameras providing security surveillance for key external areas of the
site: one at the main entrance gate, and one at the entrance to our Young Adult
Provision (located on the same overall site as Prior's Court School). There are no
surveillance cameras in use inside any of the buildings.
There are fences and hedges around the perimeter of the site and young people
are accompanied at all times by the appropriate number of staff.
All visitors are required to sign in via reception and are escorted by a member of
staff when on-site.