Charging and Remissions Policy 2023-24

Version: October 2024  /  Review October 2025

This policy should be read with the Co-op Academies Trust Charges and Remissions Policy. The individual Academy charges and remissions for Co-op Academy Brownhill are outlined below, which align with the Trust's policy. Charges and Remissions - Co-op Academies

The Education Act 1996 prohibits a school from charging students/parents for activities in the regular school curriculum. There are, however, specific 'borderline' areas where the policy of the school needs explaining:

Activity or thing which will or may be charged for notes

Charges will/may be made for music tuition.

The cost, or a proportion of the charges, for teaching staff employed to provide tuition in playing a musical instrument or singing, where the education is an optional extra for an individual pupil or groups of up to four pupils

Activity or thing which will or may be charged for:

Charges will/may be made for music tuition.

• The cost, or a proportion of the charges, for teaching staff employed to provide tuition in playing a musical instrument or singing, where the education is an optional extra for an individual pupil or groups of up to four pupils

Charges will be made for the board and lodging component of residential trips

• The charge will not exceed the actual cost and where possible the Academy seeks to source additional funding to reduce these costs for families.

Charges will be made for the board and lodging component of residential trips

• The charge will not exceed the actual cost and where possible the Academy seeks to source additional funding to reduce these costs for families.

Day Visits / Trips

• Requests for voluntary contributions will be made

Charges will/may be made for any materials, books, instruments, or equipment, which is related to an after school club and the parent wishes their child to own them;

• Eg. Cooking club -

Extended sessions / child care in the Nursery