Your management software runs the daily diary and the learning journals. NurseryGuard does the other half: the safeguarding and EYFS evidence Ofsted inspects — policies, safer-recruitment records, staff training — plus a parent-facing Trust Mark that shows families your registration and safeguarding posture at a glance. Built for the September 2025 EYFS framework.
Childcare in England is regulated by Ofsted under the EYFS statutory framework, updated in September 2025. The duties are concrete and documentable, and the enforcement — suspension, deregistration — is existential. A poor inspection is also a public, parent-facing hit.
A designated safeguarding lead, a written safeguarding policy with safer-recruitment procedures, references before recruitment, whistleblowing, and safeguarding training renewed every two years. The September 2025 update tightened several of these.
Statutory staff:child ratios, enhanced DBS checks, and a current paediatric-first-aid holder on site — with volunteers and students counting in ratios only if they hold valid PFA. All evidenced, all inspectable.
Ofsted can issue a legally-enforceable welfare-requirements notice, suspend a setting where children may be at risk, or cancel registration — which disqualifies the provider. Inspection judgements are public, so the commercial stakes match the legal ones.
The same platform that scans, generates and trains across the Friam family — set up for the EYFS evidence and the parent-trust signal the management tools don't own.
Your safeguarding, safer-recruitment, whistleblowing, behaviour, allergen and data-protection policies built to the September 2025 EYFS framework from your setting's profile, e-signed by the DSL or manager with an audit trail, and updated when the framework moves.
A guided record for references-before-recruitment, DBS, qualifications and induction — the safer-recruitment evidence trail an inspector asks to see, kept in one place per staff member.
Short, quiz-checked modules — safeguarding refresh, paediatric-first-aid awareness, allergens, EYFS basics — with certificates, team progress, and reminders before the two-yearly safeguarding training lapses.
Per-child dietary and allergy records, two-emergency-contacts checks and unexplained-absence prompts — the welfare requirements that are easy to keep on paper and hard to evidence when asked.
A public verification page and embeddable badge showing your Ofsted registration, latest judgement, safeguarding-policy attestation and allergen handling — the reassurance parents look for, that your management app doesn't surface.
We scan your setting's website for the disclosures parents and inspectors expect — policies available, complaints route, safeguarding statement — and show you the gaps before anyone else spots them.
NurseryGuard is deliberately not nursery-management software — Famly, Blossom, Tapestry and others own the daily diary and we don't compete with them. We sit alongside whatever you use, as the EYFS-and-safeguarding evidence layer plus the parent-facing trust signal those tools don't provide. Built for the ~27,500 group settings — nurseries and pre-schools — that carry the full EYFS weight without a dedicated compliance officer.
NurseryGuard provides compliance tools and content; it is not Ofsted and does not provide legal advice. Safeguarding is a high-stakes legal duty: generated policies, records and training are designed to support and evidence your compliance with the EYFS statutory framework and your safeguarding obligations — they support, but do not replace, the provider's own legal responsibility for children's safety.