Posted By Ken Taylor You seem to have a host of potential risks here - both for the children and the organisation. Whenever nursery or pre-prep age children attend our senior schools they are always supervised until discharged to their parents. School children should not be using the same toilets as staff (with a very few recognised exceptions). You really need some written procedures in place that incorporate control measures based upon the various risks present. These are likely to be along the lines of the standard practices of nursery and primary level schools (both for normal in-school activity and visits) and your local education authority advisers should be able to point you to the relevant guidance.

Posted By Graham Bullough In addition to the responses already made, I would advise that the college/institution involved checks the design of the balustrades for its stairways and landings - assuming it occupies more than a ground floor. In the past I have had to advise some colleges and secondary schools that their balustrades were blatantly unsafe for young children because they incorporated significant gaps. This was because the balustrades consisted of simple uprights beneath each handrail spaced at 10 inches/25cms or even more apart with no infill. Presumably this design was cheap and the architects involved never envisaged that young children would enter such buildings for all sorts of reasons, e.g. accompanying parents on open days, being brought to creches or just meeting, waiting for or accompanying parents who are members of staff. Don't forget the cleaners before or after normal college hours, especially those who are single parents who can't afford or can't always arrange for a friend or relative to look after their children. Therefore, some cleaners regularly or occasionally bring their children to work, and inevitably cannot always keep an eye on them. Fortunately the poor balustrade designs I have encountered have not been involved in serious injury to children, but there may be other readers of this forum who do know of such incidents. If any readers are involved with premises which have such balustrades, the remedy is to have suitably robust panels fitted to the uprights so as to close most of the space beneath the handrails. Don't have horizontal or inclined bars because these form step features which children can use to climb on the balustrades.