Standard Service

College Guardians Standard Service includes:

Welfare, Wellbeing and Academic Support

• Ensuring that your child settles into school, assisting with any issues that may arise

• Visiting your child at school once each term. Visits will be arranged through the house parents at the school and where possible at a time that is not disruptive to

  your child’s school timetable.

• Regular communication with feedback to parents and or agent.

• Additional visits can be arrange on request and will be charged at £50 per visit plus travel expenses. It should be noted that our staff will often visit schools more

  regularly than this on an ad hoc basis and will always take these opportunities to meet your child informally.

• Support and guidance with subject choices, choice of senior school (where applicable) and university places.

• Where required, help with arranging educational learning support needs

General Help, Guidance and Assistance

• Assistance with purchasing school uniform 

• Help with managing pocket money

• Assistance with any extra-curricular needs ( within school) e.g. music / dance / drama / sport

• Help with the purchase of a mobile telephone and a local SIM card

• Passport and visa renewal – we are unable to apply for visas on your child’s behalf but would be happy to provide general advice and offer details of agents that

  specialise and have experience in these matters. In these circumstances, you would need to work directly with the agents.

Emergency Service

• College Guardians operates a 24 hour on call emergency service during term time, including exeat / leave out weekends and half-term holidays. If your child plans to stay in the UK during the longer school holidays, we request that you inform us of the full arrangements that have been made for your child.

Transportation

• Arranging transport between the airport and school at the beginning and end of each, half term holidays and exeat / leaveout weekends when required. (The cost of transport will be deducted from your child’s expense account).

Additional Services:

• Parents meeting, If required a College Guardians representative will attend parents meetings on your behalf and complete a written report. A fee of £40 plus travel expenses will be charged for this service.

• Errands ( e.g. visits to the doctors, dentist or shopping requests) will be charged at £15 per hour plus mileage.

• Host families. If a host family stay is requested an arrangement fee of £125 will be charged in addition to the host family costs.

   

Disbursement: £1000, which will be held in an account for your child and used when necessary or for emergencies. An account statement will be sent to you at the end of each term and we will request additional funds if the balance of this account falls below £300.