Attendance that matches the room, not just the sign-in sheet

Every child's arrival and departure needs recording, with a staff member actually checking them in and out — not a parent self-signing a sheet nobody verifies against who's actually there. Regulation 24 is the specific check Tusla's inspection tool runs against this.

The reconciliation step matters more than the recording step on its own. At opening, at room transitions, after breaks, before outdoor play, during sleep, and at closing, the children physically present need to match the staff actually supervising them — and any discrepancy needs investigating immediately, not noted and moved past.

The moments where this drifts are predictable: opening before the day has fully staffed up, closing as children consolidate for pickup, and the handoffs in between. Bloomffy's front-of-house device exists for exactly the two consolidation points — one fixed device handles check-in across every room before staff have split out for the day, and check-out across every room again as children consolidate for pickup after a configurable time — because attendance accuracy is weakest exactly when the crèche is least room-structured, not during the steady middle of the day when one tablet per room already has it covered.

An admin can also check a child in directly with an editable arrival time when staff forgot to on the room device — not because the rule bends, but because compliance hours (ECCE, NCS) are computed from this data, and a missed check-in shouldn't silently under-report a child's actual attendance. A late-arrival alert flags children who haven't checked in by a configurable cutoff, with an option to note a known, expected absence so a family's pre-arranged day off doesn't read as an unexplained gap.