How might I see a return on my investment in On the Button?
On the Button will Save time. Save money. Save anguish. Safeguard lives.
| HOW IT MAY BE FOR YOU NOW… | WHAT ON THE BUTTON CAN DO FOR YOU… |
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| You use one of the safeguarding systems designed for schools. | Provide a practical solution for early years providers, which may work out cheaper and more effective. |
| You use paper forms, body maps, notebooks, etc. Staff may need to leave the room to find the correct form or photocopy one. | With On the Button, anyone can offload the concern immediately while it is fresh in their mind. This reassures the stressed staff member. Taking care of your team aids the cohesiveness of your setting and helps retain their employment and team stability. |
| Paper reports from different staff members are filed confidentially under the child’s name in the office. Organising the information may take considerable time and building a good picture of what is happening for the child, family, or staff member takes time as new information arrives. Reviews are repeated by different DSL/senior team members, who use more time to do this again for themselves. | On the Button provides an immediate total of incidences recorded for the day and the last six weeks. All the reports, including the action and outcome, can be read in one time-saving report by as many people as need to know the incident, the action taken, and the outcome of each event. While this happens, staff feel more in control, and children are safeguarded more effectively. |
| Staff may be reluctant to write up something they are worried about. Are they making a fuss about nothing? Is it worth the bother? Do they then worry about it later at home, at night, etc? | On the Button makes it easy and part of standard practice. Nothing is overlooked, and none of what may become part of a bigger picture is missed. This ensures your setting takes appropriate action early and avoids being seen as neglectful, which can affect your reputation. |
| Unwilling or unsure if they should write it up, the staff member takes time out of the room or their role in finding and telling the DSL, who should then ask them to write the incident up, which may be some time after the incident. | As part of routine practice, concerns are written in On the Button straight away, while fresh in the memory as statements of fact. The DSL is informed immediately if it is a safeguarding concern. Therefore, the systems are effective, saving staff time and maintaining a positive outlook through the appropriate action taken in unfortunate scenarios. |
| The DSL may be unsure about what to record and report, especially when it comes down to a ‘gut feeling’ or instincts. | By not including the events or concerns formally at the time, your organisation potentially is considered unprofessional and doesn't meet statutory requirements. On the Button sets procedures for all to follow, puts the child at the centre of practice, and seeks to eliminate human error in sharing information. The software provides practice that supports your statutory requirement to safeguard maintaining your setting’s reputation. |
| Staff must physically inform the DSL of their concern. This may mean leaving the children to make a phone call or leaving the room. | On the Button will ensure the DSL (and senior staff) know immediately by SMS and email if there is a safeguarding concern. Information is accurate and not overlooked, whether staff are on or off duty. The software enables the DSL to give appropriate consideration and take immediate action to support and safeguard children and adults in your setting. |
| The DSL has to prioritise and collate individual written logs of concern over time into a format for external professionals. Their other duties must take second priority to ensure the information is complete, chronological, and professionally presented, maintaining accuracy. Senior staff may also need to overview and permit it based on the information and presentation standards. | On the Button produces an instant factual report that can be emailed to the agency involved. This presents your setting as efficient, maintains your reputation while allowing regular duties to be continued, while ensuring that children can be protected sooner. |
| You must rely on staff to ensure confidential information is stored safely and accessible to the relevant personnel, while balancing the demands of a busy early years setting. | On the Button keeps everything safe in one place, separated from other types of information. These pertinent logs are accessible to designated senior staff, if necessary, off-site. Therefore, as an owner or manager, should a parent contact the setting outside of working hours, you can review parent complaints or well-being/safeguarding scenarios to ensure the parent, child, and staff members involved are supported appropriately. This may give you peace of mind in your time off and, in an emergency, without needing to go back to work to access a file of forms. |
| As an owner or manager, making or upholding an excellent whole-team ethos around promoting well-being and safeguarding always presents a worry. Furthermore, is everyone on the team following your safeguarding policy? You like to think so, but can’t be sure. | On the Button provides a proven and endorsed system that safeguards your team, your setting, and the children attending. It puts your policy, ethos, and the child at the centre of practice. By using the On the Button, well-being and safeguarding become prominent features of your establishment. The software enables the team to actively care for each other in a professional manner, be professionally curious practitioners and prevent your setting from hitting the News Headlines. |
| Personnel across all departments may not be confident or correct in how they write up a concern. | On the Button ensures someone with more knowledge and experience reviews everything after each log has been made. As an On the Button user, logs are not made on forms or notebooks that are immediately filed and locked away. Therefore, the software gives a more favourable opportunity to immediately give appropriate support to an individual staff member enabling their future logs to be written more professionally. This builds the employee's confidence, knowledge, and skills instead of finding poor practice later at a most inconvenient time when information must be communicated to those outside your organisation, where your business’s standing is at stake. |
| Senior staff struggle with how to approach safeguarding when handling your setting’s staff supervision meetings. | On the Button provides past information about a child, family, or colleague to seed conversations in meaningful ways, underpinning best practices and open communication. |
| From an owner/manager’s viewpoint, you may not know what parents are disgruntled about as they talk to the Key Person. Formal written complaints may come out of the blue. Reasons for children leaving unexpectedly may be around the parents' perception of substandard care, which takes you by surprise. | On the Button allows your setting to address similar concerns over family welfare and well-being. It enables Key Persons to log grumbles, verbal complaints, and their actions, which are also shared with senior staff. This allows situations to be communicated effectively to the team and stopped quickly before growing into a larger problem, while giving practitioners support in how to manage particular situations or parents in the future. Happy parents will recommend your setting. Supported and confident practitioners aid your setting’s well-being and the retention of good teams. |
| You worry that staff may go straight to Ofsted or LADO without bringing their concerns or grievances to you or your manager. | On the Button facilitates internal whistleblowing confidentially and anonymously if preferred. As all logs are brought to senior staff’s consideration, these can be considered immediately, action taken as is suitable and the outcomes communicated across each team as appropriate. The benefits include giving your teams a voice and showing their issues are respected and taken seriously. Meanwhile, tracking events and outcomes provides evidence of taking active responsibility should an investigation occur. |
| You dread Ofsted. You worry about inexperienced practitioners talking to the inspector and staff’s comments about safeguarding practices in your setting. | On the Button, as a system, helps protect your provision against a negative Ofsted outcome alongside a good Safeguarding Policy that everyone understands and regular safeguarding training. Showcasing the On the Button logo on your website openly illustrates your commitment as a provider to the well-being and safeguarding of everyone connected to your organisation. Ofsted checks out websites, as do potential families and practitioners. |
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