Escape Artists

This morning we had a runaway. One of our newest recruits, a little boy in Year 1, decided that he did not want to stay at school at the end of playtime and he simply ran home. How? Well we are situated on a big site and although we have security gates we cannot lock them due to Health and Safety restrictions. He simply decided to take advantage of a gate that was left open by a parent leaving the site. He was seen running out and despite a school policy of not chasing runners we did make sure that he was safe and that he went home (one of our LSAs followed him with an older child). The little boy was returned to school by his parents but he was in no fit state to stay in school so he went back home and will start the day again after lunch. Now we only have the problem of how to ensure that the gates stayed closed!