Approval process and publishing a policy

As your policies play a vital role in ensuring your service complies with Regulation and Legislation it is imperative to prevent changes to these documents which could result in poor practice, harm to a child and potential legal ramifications, fines, or damage to your service's reputation due to non-compliance. Therefore amending and publishing a policy is controlled at the user level;

1. Admin Role - Can edit, approve and publish a policy
   
2. Manager Role - Can edit a policy and submit it for approval by the Admin
   
3. Team Members - Can post comments on policies, to suggest changes or updates
   

Admin Role

When working in edit mode within your policy library, and editing a previously published policy, after editing and satisfied the policy is ready to be published, you will be able to press "publish" and the new version of the document will be published

Manager Role

When working in edit mode within your policy library, and editing a previously published policy, after editing and satisfied the policy is ready to be published, you will be able to press "Submit for Approval" and the Admin will be notified there is a policy to review and publish

Team Member

A team member when reading through policy documents will be able to provide their comments to Admin/Managers, by entering comments in the box and clicking submit

If you are a Team Member and have suggestions

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