Security First

Gingerbread Cottage holds your child's safety of paramount importance.

As well as having a very high staff to children ratio, there are a number of state of the art security features built into the fabric of the nursery. These include 11 cameras linked to a CCTV system, which are recording 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to ensure your child's safety from the outside, and also enable their activities to be monitored from the office.

The entrance gate is secured with an intercom and buzzer system, the front door also has a buzzer system and both can only be opened from the inside.

All the following items are provided at Gingerbread Cottage Children's Nursery. This checklist ensures that you get the very best in terms of education, care and safety for your child.

High quality premises, which are safe and well maintained:

• Large, purpose designed enclosed garden
• British standard approved safety glass to all accessible glass
• Seperate, temperature-controlled hot water supply to taps in children's toilets, preventing scalding
• Low surface temperature radiators, preventing burns
• Finger shields fitted to all doors accessible to children, preventing trapping
• Seperate nappy changing rooms, toilet training rooms and children's toilets
• Safe and hygenic floor and work surfaces
• Fire alarms, smoke and heat detector systems and emergency lighting for rapid escape
• External lighting, 24hr monitored intruder/burglar alarms and secured, enclosed rear premises

Live Nursery Cameras
With NurseryCam® secure Internet Viewing System now installed at Gingerbread Cottage, parents can view live video images of your children securely - anytime, anywhere.
NurseryCam® is an easy way to follow your child’s daily routine, to watch your child interact with others and to keep up with your child's development.

To download a printable information pack, click on the image on the right

North West Tonight Feature - July 2004 (Movie opens in media player)

Press Release - Thursday August 26th 2004 (pdf)