Premium Service

Administration Fee: £150 (non refundable)

Annual Fee: £1785

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. We will request additional funds if the balance of this account falls below £250.

College Guardians Premium Service includes:

Host Families

• Ensuring a suitable host family is found for your child
• Arranging host family accommodation for exeat, leaveout weekends and half term holidays
• Contact with host families and children during overnight stays
• Arranging transport to and from host families (transport costs will be deducted from your child’s expense account)
• Making sure that your child’s stay with their host is happy and enjoyable

Emergency Service

• College Guardians operates a 24 hour on call emergency service during term time including exeat weekends and half term holidays.

Transportation

• Arranging transport between the airport and school at the beginning and end of term and to and from the host family when necessary (the cost of the transport will be deducted from your child’s expense account)

Welfare, Wellbeing and Academic Support

• Arranging an initial meeting between parents/child and host family where possible
• Ensuring that your child settles into school, assisting with any issues that may arise
• Visiting your child at school once each term. Additional visits will be charged at £50 per visit plus travel expense. It should be noted that our staff will often visit schools more regularly than this on an ad hoc basic and will always take these opportunities to meet your child informally
• Regular communication with and feedback to parents, children, school representatives and house parents
• Representation at parents meetings followed up with a written report
• Help with arranging any educational learning support needs
• Support and guidance with subject choices, choice of senior schools and university places

General Help, Guidance and Assistance

• Assistance with buying school uniform
• Help with managing pocket money
• Assistance with any extra-curricular needs e.g. music lessons / dance and drama / sports
• Arranging holiday courses as required
• Help with the purchase of a mobile telephone and phone cards
• Passport and visa renewal - Passport and visa renewal - we are unable to apply for visas on your child's behalf but are happy to provide general advice and assistance.

Additional Costs and Charges:

• Transport will be charged per journey and will vary according to the length of the journey. We will be happy to give individual quotes
• Cost of overnight stays with host families will incur additional charges
• Errands (e.g visits to the doctors, dentist or shopping requests) will be charged at £10 per hour plus mileage

Please note that we require all children under 13 years of age to be enrolled in our Premium Service