A template library
Policy and procedure templates for children's homes in England, Wales and Scotland, included with Care and kept up to date.
Precinct Care
Policies and procedures for children's homes
Start from a template written to the regulations, adapt it for your homes, and ask staff to read and sign. Every version is kept, so you can show an inspector exactly which policy was in force on any date and who had signed it.
Policies are usually Word documents in a shared drive, with a signing sheet in a folder. Nobody is quite sure who has read the latest version. In Precinct Care, policies live next to the records they govern, and staff sign them on the same device they use on shift.
Where we are: Precinct Care is in final development, shaped with registered managers, Responsible Individuals and Reg 44 independent persons. We are booking demonstrations now and taking a small number of pilot homes. The snippets on this page are from the working system, filled with made-up people and records.
What Precinct Care does with policies
Adopt and adapt
Adopt a template as version 1.0, then change it for your homes, or upload your own Word document.
See what changed
When a template is updated, you see exactly what changed and choose whether to adopt it.
Read and sign
Everyone the policy applies to signs to say they've read it, with their face or fingerprint. The manager sees who hasn't.
Every version kept
Inspectors can see which version was in force on any date and who had signed it.
Reviews on time
Each policy has an owner and a review date, and the owner is reminded before it's due.
Every policy, who owns it and who has signed
The policy list shows each policy's version, the regulations it covers, its owner, its next review and how many staff have signed it. Policies due for review come first.
Templates written to the regulations
The library covers safeguarding and child protection, behaviour support and restraint, missing from care, child exploitation, medication including controlled drugs, online safety and mobile phones, anti-bullying, Prevent, allegations against staff and whistleblowing, safer recruitment, searching young people and their rooms, fire safety, records and access to records, complaints, admissions and matching, education, family time and relationships, and moving on and leaving care, among others.
Templates are a starting point. Each provider checks and signs off its own policies. The safeguarding escalation flowchart in the policy is the same one staff see on every young person's Safety tab, so practice and policy match.
Regulator updates, checked every hour
Precinct Care checks Ofsted, the Department for Education, Care Inspectorate Wales and the Care Inspectorate for new announcements, guidance and consultations. Items that look relevant to your services are marked with a suggestion of what they might mean. You decide: mark it read, ask the managers to read it, or add it to a policy review.
See Precinct Care for yourself
Book a 30-minute demonstration. We'll show you the screens your staff, managers and inspectors would use.
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