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Useful guidance for creative practitioners working in schools
We have developed some simple guidance notes for artists and creative pracitioners working in education. These have been informed by artists' recent experiences of working in schools and other settings as part of the Cumbria Arts Artist Mentoring Programme. Click on the links below to download them (PDF docs).
Documentation
Money Matters
Copyright
Useful Contacts
Best Practice
According to a recent Arts Council publication Providing the Best, the following policies and procedures should be in place when working with children and young people:
- Equal opportunities policy, with procedures for monitoring targets and for recruitment
- Child protection policy and procedures for safeguarding children (legally defined as anyone under 18)
- Disclosure Certificates, issued by the Criminal Records Bureau, for anyone who will have regular contact with children
- Risk assessment for each activity
- Consent from parents and carers, giving permission for children to take part in activities, and address and contact details for each child, if you are responsible for children
- Permission to use images of children in publications and on websites
- Health and safety procedures
- Employers' liability insurance, if you are not part of a local authority or government department
- Public liability insurance
Other useful publications include:
Artists working in partnership with schools: ACE 2004
Guidance to support a positive partnership and subsequently a successful project between artists and schools.
Insurance
ACE Insurance information
This provides a brief introduction to insurance for individual artists and organisations. It includes a list of further reading and useful contacts.
Education
What is Every Child Matters?
DCSF website