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.

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
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
Cadet units: guide for government-funded schools
- Detailed guide
- 25 February 2019
- Department for Education
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

Natural England