1. I agree to give 4 weeks notice in writing should my child wish to leave the dance school.
2. I agree fees are non refundable once paid for the term.
3. I agree to pay fees up front before the term or the fee deadline date.
4. I agree to the uniform policy, including hair in a bun for ballet Grade 1 up and in a ponytail for all other classes for girls.
5. I agree I am responsible for my child’s behaviour in the venues and will make sure they are respectful of all the venues.
6. I agree the teachers are only responsible for my child during the class hours as dictated by the timetable.
7. I agree to read all the terms and conditions on the website.

All of our policies are here:
https://angelawatsonschoolofdance.co.uk/policies

Child Protection Policy
The purpose of this policy statement is:
• To protect children and young people who receive Angela Watson School of Dance’s
services from harm. This includes the children of adults who use our services
• To provide staff and volunteers, as well as children and young people and their fami
lies, with the overarching principles that guide our approach to child protection. • This policy applies to anyone working on behalf of [name of group/organisation],
including senior managers and the board of trustees, paid staff, volunteers, sessional workers, agency staff and students.
Legal framework
• This policy has been drawn up on the basis of legislation, policy and guidance that
seeks to protect children in Scotland. A summary of the key legislation is available from nspcc.org.uk/learning.
We believe that:
• Children and young people should never experience abuse of any kind
We have a responsibility to promote the welfare of all children and young people, to keep them safe and to practise in a way that protects them.
We recognise that:
• The welfare of children is paramount in all the work we do and in all the decisions
we take all children, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation have an equal right to protection from all types of harm or abuse
• Some children are additionally vulnerable because of the impact of previous experiences, their level of dependency, communication needs or other issues
• Working in partnership with children, young people, their parents, carers and • Other agencies is essential in promoting young people’s welfare.
We will seek to keep children and young people safe by:
• Valuing, listening to and respecting them
• Adopting child protection and safeguarding best practice through our policies, • Procedures and code of conduct for staff and volunteers
• Developing and implementing an effective online safety policy and related
procedures
• Providing effective management for staff and volunteers through supervision,
• Support, training and quality assurance measures so that all staff and volunteers
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know about and follow our policies, procedures and behaviour codes confidently and
competently
• Recruiting and selecting staff and volunteers safely, ensuring all necessary checks
are made
• Recording, storing and using information professionally and securely, in line with data
protection legislation and guidance [more information about this is available from the
Information Commissioner’s Office: ico.org.uk/for- organisations]
• Making sure that children, young people and their families know where to go for help
if they have a concern using our safeguarding and child protection procedures to share concerns and relevant information with agencies who need to know, and involving children, young people, parents, families and carers appropriately
• Using our procedures to manage any allegations against staff and volunteers appropriately
• Creating and maintaining an anti-bullying environment and ensuring that we have a policy and procedure to help us deal effectively with any bullying that does arise.
• Ensuring that we have effective complaints and whistleblowing measures in place.
• Ensuring that we provide a safe physical environment for our children, young people, staff and volunteers, by applying health and safety measures in accordance with the
law and regulatory guidance
• Building a safeguarding culture where staff and volunteers, children, young people and
their families, treat each other with respect and are comfortable about sharing concerns.
Protecting Vulnerable Groups
• Angela Watson School of Dance places paramount importance on working in
compliance with the Protecting Vulnerable Groups membership scheme (the “PVG Scheme”) managed and delivered by Disclosure Scotland. The PVG Scheme helps Us to ensure that people whose behaviour makes them unsuitable to work with children are not able to work with Us.
* Social Media, where are parents do not wish their child to be photographed for public, private social media sites, advertising in magazines or leaflets they must go to the portal and tick the do not take photo box. It is a parent’s responsibility to let us know if they not not wish their child’s image to be used in this regard.
• We are registered with Disclosure Scotland as an employer that carries out regulated work with children. All individuals who work for Us, either as employees or as sole trader We request and hold PVG Scheme records from Disclosure Scotland for all our workers to ensure they are lawfully allowed to work with children. We always protect the rights and privacy of the people involved by abiding by our policy on the safe handling of disclosure information.
Contact details
Nominated child protection lead
Name: Angela Watson - angela4dance@yahoo.co.uk
NSPCC Helpline 0808 800 5000
We are committed to reviewing our policy and good practice annually. This policy was last reviewed on: 11.01.2022

We will only ask for your emergency telephone numbers in case of an emergency, your child’s name and age, we need to know their age to make sure the class they are in is the appropriate one and also if they take an RAD exam that they are eligible to sit the exam. The RAD have age restrictions in certain exams. We need to know medical conditions to make the teachers aware of possible illnesses in class or injuries.
We will not share your telephone number with third parties. We will be required to share your child’s date of birth with the RAD and they may need to know of medical conditions when entering for an exam.
Please give us 4 weeks notice in writing as we will delete all your information when you leave in accordance with Data Protection.
We will keep your numbers and child’s information on our phones and computers with a pass code and we will keep any paper copies in a locked file.

The parents and pupils responsibility to the school, public areas and teachers.
1. All parents must fill in a registration form with emergency contact details and medical information, please do let teachers know in advance of illnesses, injuries and anything that can affect the dancer in dance class.
2. Parents are responsible for informing us of any change of telephone numbers or medical issues.
3. Parents are responsible for their children out with class times, in the changing areas, toilets, car parks and venues.
4. Please be aware other users may use the halls so please respect the and don’t allow your children to run around venues or leave litter, put litter in the bins or take home with you. Some people may be working in the venues so please respect them too.
5. Please label all uniform including dance shoes. We are not responsible for lost property.
6. The uniform for each class must be adhered to, please see website for uniform lists.
7. Please make sure your child is on time for dance class so we can take a register and warm the pupils up properly. (It’s extremely important that the pupils are there at registration and for the warm up)
8. Please ensure your child does not wear jewelry, this is for the safety of your child and others in the room. Please leave jewellery and valuables at home where possible.
9. If late please knock on the door when the music has stopped and send your child in quietly so as not to disturb the other pupils and the teacher in class.
10. Please give us 4 weeks notice in writing if your child wishes to leave her/his class. We need to take your child off the registers and delete contact details when they do leave to comply with Data Protection.
11. No refunds will be given once fees are paid.
12. Fees paid after the two week period will incur an administration fee of 10%.
13. We use social media sites: public and private, leaflets and advertisements in magazines to promote the dance school. Please make sure that you fill in the photo content form to state if you are happy/not happy for us to use your child’s image for any of the above advertising platforms. If you do not tick any of the boxes we will assume you are happy for us to use image on any of these platforms. We will only use group photos and not individual photos unless you are consulted well in advance.

At the dance school we often take photos in class, at shows, competitions, outdoor events, on exam days and much more. We often use these photos for marketing, social media, leaflets and magazines. As a small business advertising with photos is our best way to show what we do in the dance school. We will always take photos in groups with no names of dancers unless this is discussed with the parent in advance.

We will require you to opt out of this section if you do not wish your child or your now photo as the adult dancer to be used for social media public and private pages, magazines and leaflets.

Go to your home page and click on wavers, click on wavers and go to photo opt out, click this and tick the box to opt out of photos.

1. All teachers at the dance school have PVG checks (protecting vulnerable groups)
2. All teachers have a degree in dance and or teaching qualifications.
3.All teachers do regular first aid courses and are up to date with these.
4. All teachers will perform first aid should the need arise and or call the emergency services if deemed necessary, we shall contact you at the same time.
5. All teachers have a duty of care to the pupils whilst in our care and all children will be treated with respect, we will always have your chid’s best interest in any of our decisions that we make regarding your child.
6. Teachers are only responsible for the pupils in class time in the dance studio/halls.
7. should a child have an accident in class we will call the parent first and if needed we shall call for medical assistance.
8.Teachers will know what to do in the event of a fire or emergency. In the event of a fire teachers will take the pupils to designated area, in Cragiockhart we shall take the pupils out the fire exit, under the egg and onto the car park. In Fairmilehead we shall take the pupils to the front of the church on the lawn, in Colinton we shall take the pupils to the front garden, in Heritage Grange we shall take the pupils to the flats opposite the building.

1,There is a uniform for all classes, please make sure your child is wearing the correct uniform for all classes.
2. Hair must be in a pony tail for girls for all ages and classes and in a ballet bun for ballet classes grade 1 and above.
3. No jewellery should be worn in class as this can be dangerous.