P erimeter Issues Institutional play areas should be fenced. Areas which cannot be seen by supervising personnel should not be used by children. Fences should be in good repair with no areas which could injure children. Children should never be on the playground without active supervision. A cluster of adults chatting is not supervision.
Play areas hold myriad opportunities for failure to supervise charges.
Look carefully at the entire operation, perhaps from the vantage point of a child. E quipment Take a walk out to your playground and through the halls and rooms of your institution. Equipment which is not in good repair is a preventable accident waiting to happen. P ick-ups and Releasing Children Institutions are very aware in theory about not releasing children to anyone other than the persons designated to pick up children. In practice, I have found most institutions, particularly schools to be extremely lax about this.