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SCHOOL'S OUT: Framework for the Development of Out-of-School Care
Appendix 5
Summary of Guidance
There is a lot of guidance in School's Out. All of it is linked to the priorities for action and recommendations. We summarise all the guidance here.
Link | OSC to continue to be delivered by the voluntary, private and statutory sectors. |
Link | Local authorities to communicate the importance of OSC to head teachers and to School Boards. |
Link | Education authorities and schools to decide themselves how to deliver services in new community schools in a joined-up way. To examine the scope for new community schools (and associated pre-school centres) to have OSC on their premises. |
Link | Childcare partnerships, clubs and other childcare interests to maintain a positive relationship with local authorities to make sure that their needs are fully understood before the school-estate management plan is developed and put into practice. |
Link | Local authorities to encourage schools to reflect the availability of OSC in relevant school publications when information is provided for parents. School handbooks to contain contact details for the local childcare information service |
Link | Local authorities and others not to set up clubs in schools where these affect the sustainability of existing good-quality clubs based in other premises. |
Link | Planning groups to consider how the accessibility strategy is tackling access for children with disabilities to services provided in schools by other groups, such as parents' groups providing OSC. |
Link | Where the OSC is not managed by the education authority, the OSC provider is responsible for keeping to their duties under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (as amended). |
Link | Local authorities to decide their own charging policies for letting school and other council premises. They will want to take account of the wider benefits of OSC in considering their charging policies in relation to OSC. |
Link | Local authorities to support clubs to make places available to children in need or with additional support needs. |
Link | Local authorities and childcare partnerships to set up services for older children and young people if there is a local need. |
Link | Local authorities to work with childcare partnerships to tackle sustainability concerns, taking into account the information about models for delivering OSC. |
Link | Local authorities to work with childcare partnerships to consider appropriate forms of business support to clubs. |
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