School trips and extracurricular activity

Consent form for school trips, guidance on charging for school activities and visits. Set up or join a cadet unit.

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Services

• Find before and after school and holiday clubs

  Ask your council about before and after school clubs and holiday play schemes run by a school, private or voluntary organisation

• Childcare out of school hours

  Childcare for your children before and after school - after-school clubs, breakfast clubs, homework clubs, childminders

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Guidance and regulation

• Charging for school activities
  • Guidance
  • 15 May 2018
  • Department for Education
• Cadet units: guide for government-funded schools
  • Detailed guide
  • 25 February 2019
  • Department for Education
• Educational access visits on your land: Environmental Stewardship
  • Detailed guide
  • 22 August 2023
  • Rural Payments Agency, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, and Natural England
• Pupil premium: summer schools programme 2015
  • Guidance
  • 11 March 2016
  • Department for Education

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News and communications

• Extra support to safeguard political impartiality in schools
  • 17 February 2022
  • Department for Education
  • Press release
• £2.5 million to boost international exchanges for schools
  • 19 January 2019
  • Department for Education
  • News story
• New guidance to help parents avoid unsafe out-of-school settings
  • 3 December 2018
  • Department for Education
  • News story
• New funding to boost schools facilities and healthy lifestyles
  • 28 February 2017
  • Department for Education
  • Press release
• Education Secretary visit to Arsenal football club
  • 30 January 2017
  • Department for Education
  • News story

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Research and statistics

• Holiday activities and food: literature review
  • 16 December 2020
  • Department for Education
  • Research
• Evaluation of the 2019 holiday activities and food programme
  • 16 December 2020
  • Department for Education
  • Research
• Extra-curricular activities, soft skills and social mobility
  • 19 July 2019
  • Social Mobility Commission
  • Research
• The cadet experience: understanding cadet outcomes
  • 14 March 2018
  • Department for Education
  • Research
• Extended activity provision in secondary schools
  • 3 August 2017
  • Department for Education
  • Research

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Policy papers and consultations

• Equalities impact assessment for the introduction of 'The importance of music: a national plan for music education': autumn 2011
  • 1 August 2011
  • Department for Education
  • Impact assessment

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

• Schools in receipt of sports grants in the Chorley area
  • 8 December 2010
  • Department for Education
  • Foi release

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Organisations

• Department for Education
• Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Ministry of Defence
• Rural Payments Agency

• Natural England