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Running Your Club
This section contains a growing collection of articles providing practical help and advice about all aspects of running your after school club, including:Your business
- Cooking with children at your club
- Data Protection Act
- Dealing with 'accidents'
- Environmental safety
- Equipment on a budget
- Forest schools and out of school clubs
- Forest schools: Activity ideas for out of school clubs
- Forest schools: Knot tying
- Forest schools: Stick picture frames
- Funding tips: 1. Learn to speak the funders' language *new*
- Helping parents with fees
- Marketing your out of school club
- New business ideas for your out of school club
- PHV licensing for out of school clubs
- Providing food at your club
- Safe use of photographs
- Tracking your expenses
- Writing a club newsletter
Staff and employment
- Changes to tax and legislation 2011-2012
- Changes to tax and legislation 2010-2011
- Effects of Equality Act 2010
- Holidays and holiday pay
- Maternity Leave and Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP)
- Pensions
- Redundancy and Statutory Redundancy Pay (SRP)
- Replacing lost certificates for CACHE qualifications
- Review of funding for playwork training post 31 March 2011
- Safeguarding and recruitment *new*
- Staff uniforms
- Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)
- After the Vetting and Barring Scheme
- Vetting and Barring Scheme
Ofsted
- Demonstrating health and safety awareness *new*
- Update from Ofsted, September 2011
- Preparing for the new school year (part 1)
- Preparing for the new school year (part 2)
- Tickell Review of EYFS - How does it impact on out of school clubs?
- Reporting injuries and accidents to Ofsted
- Parental responsibility
- Promoting children's rights and responsibilities
- Tips for coping with a shortage of qualified staff
- Update on relevant qualifications
- Which qualification is most appropriate for your staff?
- Information to display at your club
- Involving children
- Regulating play-based provision: key points from the Ofsted factsheet
- EYFS observations in out of school clubs
- Emergency (swine flu) planning
- Safeguarding
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