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📋 Your child's Personal Care Plan
Every child at Just Little Kidz gets a Personal Care Plan — a tailored profile that captures who your child is, what helps them feel safe, and what makes them light up. It's a level of preparation that's rare in the sector, and it shapes how our team cares for your child from day one.
After you book your tour, we'll send you a short form to help us build it. We'll then present and discuss the plan together at your tour, and you're welcome to take a copy home with you — so by the time your child starts, our team already knows them, and you have a record of everything we've agreed.
What goes into the plan
😴 Sleep & rest
Wake times, nap routines, comfort items
🍽️ Mealtime & toileting
Preferences, textures, stage of training
💬 Communication & sensory
How they ask for what they need, what calms them
🎨 Interests & worries
What lights them up, what helps when something's hard
🏥 Medical & SEND
Allergies, conditions, support strategies
🌟 Cultural & family
Languages spoken at home, traditions we should respect
📌 The plan stays live. We review and update it as your child grows, and you can share new information with your key person at any time — so it always reflects the child we know today.
🎓 The training behind our team
Every JLK practitioner works through the JLK Academy — our internal platform of child-focused CPD-ready courses, from safeguarding and EYFS to SEND and reflective practice. It's how we make sure the person watching your child is genuinely, continuously trained. Not a folder of policies. A living platform.
See how we invest in our team →🌱 Settling-in guide
Every child settles at their own pace. We follow a gradual approach so your child feels safe with the whole team before their first full session. A dedicated key person is appointed later, once we've seen who they naturally connect with.
Visit 1
Stay & play
You stay with your child for up to 30 minutes. No pressure — just exploring together.
Visit 2
Short stay
You leave briefly. The team keeps you updated by phone if needed.
Visit 3+
Half days
Building up to a morning or afternoon independently, then to full sessions.
Full start
Your booked sessions
Once your child is settled and happy, their contracted sessions begin.
We never rush settling-in. If your child needs more time, we will always work with you.
🎒 What to bring
Please ensure all items are clearly labelled with your child's name.
📱 Daily updates
We keep you connected to your child's day through our parent communication system. You will receive updates on:
- Meals eaten and sleep/nap times
- Nappy changes and toileting
- Activities, observations and learning moments
- Photos and developmental notes from your key person
- Any incidents (however minor) with an accident form to sign
If you have a question during the day, please call or message your nursery directly. Staff will respond as soon as they are able outside of key contact time with children.
🍽️ Meals, menus & allergens
We serve freshly prepared, nutritious meals and snacks throughout the day. Our menus rotate weekly and are designed to introduce a wide range of foods.
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Breakfast
On arrival – 8:45am
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AM Snack
10:30am
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Lunch
12:00pm
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PM Snack
3:30pm
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Tea
5:00pm
Allergies & dietary requirements
Please declare all allergies, intolerances and dietary requirements when you register online, and remind staff at any point. We cater for vegetarian, vegan, halal, gluten-free and all major allergen restrictions. We are a nut-free and shellfish-free nursery — please do not send any nut- or shellfish-containing foods or products with your child. An up-to-date allergen sheet is available on request from your nursery manager.
🤒 Illness policy
To protect all children and staff, please do not bring your child to nursery if they are unwell. Call or message your nursery before 9:00am on any day of absence. The table below shows our standard exclusion periods.
| Illness | Exclusion period |
|---|---|
| Diarrhoea or vomiting | 48 hours after the last episode |
| High temperature | Until fever-free without medication for 24 hours |
| Chickenpox | Until all spots have crusted over (usually 5+ days) |
| Impetigo | 48 hours after starting antibiotic treatment |
| Conjunctivitis | Until discharge has cleared |
| Hand, foot & mouth | Until all blisters have dried and crusted |
Based on current UKHSA guidance. Please also inform us of any positive COVID-19, scarlet fever or other notifiable disease diagnosis. See our full Sickness & Illness Policy and Infection Control Policy for more detail.
🎓 Funding reminders
30-hour codes expire every 3 months
If you use working parent entitlement (30 hours), you must reconfirm your code in your HMRC Childcare Account each term — usually in January, April and August. If your code lapses, the funded hours cannot be claimed until it is renewed.
Funding is term-time only
Government funding covers funded hours during term weeks only. If your child attends during school holidays, normal daily rates apply for all hours.
Meals are charged separately on funded days
If your child attends for funded hours only, consumable charges apply for any meals taken: Breakfast £2 · Snack £2 · Lunch £4.50 · Tea £4.
2-year funding changes from April 2026
2-year funded places are available for eligible families. Check your eligibility at childcarechoices.gov.uk and speak to your nursery manager about applying.
📆 Term dates
JLK term dates — fee-paying families attend year-round, so half-terms don't affect you. Funded-hours-only families, please pay close attention to closure days highlighted in yellow.
| Term / event | Start | End |
|---|---|---|
| Autumn 1 | Mon 7 September 2026 | Fri 23 October 2026 |
| Half-term funded only | Mon 26 Oct | Fri 30 Oct 2026 |
| Autumn 2 | Mon 2 November 2026 | Fri 18 December 2026 |
| 🎄 Christmas closure all children | 24, 25, 31 Dec 2026 & 1 Jan 2027 | |
| Spring 1 | Mon 4 January 2027 | Thu 11 February 2027 |
| 📚 Staff training all children | Fri 12 February 2027 — nursery closed | |
| Half-term funded only | Mon 15 Feb | Fri 19 Feb 2027 |
| Spring 2 | Mon 22 February 2027 | Thu 25 March 2027 |
| 🐣 Easter closure all children | Fri 26 & Mon 29 March 2027 | |
| Summer 1 | Mon 12 April 2027 | Fri 28 May 2027 |
| Half-term funded only | Mon 31 May | Fri 4 Jun 2027 |
| Summer 2 | Mon 7 June 2027 | Fri 23 July 2027 |
| 🎓 Graduations TBC | Week beginning Mon 5 July 2027 (actual date TBC) | |
| 🌞 Summer closure all children | Mon 30 Aug – Fri 3 Sep 2027 — training + prep week | |
Nursery remains open year-round for fee-paying families (closed bank holidays + JLK-specific closure days above). Half-terms above apply to funded-hours-only families.
📂 Nursery policies
Our full policy library is now available online — effective from June 2026 and reviewed annually. Each policy applies across all three JLK sites and can be printed or saved as PDF for your records.
Most requested
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