This will enable the nursey to offer another 55 places for the children and will open up 10 spaces for new staff members. 

 

The expansion was enabled thanks to funding from Santander Business Banking, which Home from Home switched to at the end of February. 

 

Home from Home Nursery has been operating for 15 years and currently has an Outstanding rating from Ofsted for their original Sussex site.

 

Julia Pattenden, one of the company owners, said the funding would allow Home from Home to increase its intake by 60 per cent.

 

"We have a large waiting list and highly trained practitioners ready to start work," she said.

 

James Elwood, relationship director at Santander Business Banking, said: "With children in day care nursery myself, I can see the benefit that the Home from Home brand has at its core with pre-primary education.

 

"In aiding their expansion, more children have the opportunity to experience this fantastic start in education."

 

Source: Insider Media South East

 

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Our Integration module enables schools and other organizations in the educational sector to link the Time and Attendance Clocking and Access Control equipment with the School Information Management System (SIMS).

 

The software plugin allows students’ and staff’s attendance records to be imported into our centralised system, along with the details of their assigned proximity smart cards. Staff and students can then gain, or be denied, access to areas controlled by the access controllers, based upon their access permissions.

 

Details of past and current students can now be exported from SIMS into our system. An automatic facility imports students’ forename, surname, gender and start date.  Students are identified by their UPN and grouped by their year and registration group. Staff details are also imported into our system. 

 

Once attendance information is gathered from SIMS, configuration rules dictate how these attendance marks are treated. For example, attendance marks could replace existing clockings on our system, or be added as new entries.  Different rules can be applied to every day of the week.

 

If a school already have a card-based access control or time and attendance system, our card link facility ensures the records can be carried over and the card integrated. 

 

One of the many advantages of our integrated system is that the list of current clockings can be configured to print automatically as a fire roll call/register when the fire alarm sounds. This is quick and effective, and much more reliable than other manual methods such as headcounts or reading from a class register.