Premium Service

College Guardians Premium Service includes:

Arrange an initial meeting between College Guardians, child / parents and host family where possible
Ensuring that your child settles into school, assisting with any issues that may arise
Regular communication with feedback to parents and / or agent
Visiting your child at school twice each term. Visits will be arranged through the houseparents at the school and where possible at a time that is not disruptive to your child’s school timetable

Additional visits can be arranged 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
Attending parents meeting if requested with a written report sent to parents and or agent.
Support and guidance with subject choices, choice of senior school (where applicable) and university places.
Where required, help with arranging educational learning support needs

Ensuring a suitable host family is found for your child. Once you have completed the student registration form, we will try to match the needs of your child as closely as possible to one of our hosts. Whenever possible we will give you a choice of families and can arrange for you to meet the host that your child will be staying with
Arranging host family accommodation for exeat or leave-out weekends, half term and school holidays where required
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)
Ensuring that your child’s stay with their host is happy and enjoyable

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

Transport will be arranged between the airport and school at the beginning and end of term and to and from the host family where necessary. Should your child need additional transport during the period of time that they are in the UK, please let us know so that this can be arranged. (The cost of transport will be deducted from your child’s expense account)

Assistance with any extra-curricular needs (within school) e.g. music / dance / drama / sport
Arranging holiday courses as required and where requested
Help with the purchase of a mobile telephone and a local “pay as you go” 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 agent

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. Please see our fee sheet for details of these costs
Errands (e.g. visits to the doctors, dentist or shopping requests) will be charged at £20 per hour plus mileage.

If you have any questions relating to our Premium Service please contact Caroline Lloyd, Guardianship Manager caroline@collegeguardians.co.uk