The Department for Education defines an OOSS (out of school setting) as follows:
Any institution providing tuition, training or instruction to children aged 19 or under in England that is not a school, college,16-19 academies or registered childcare providers.
This would include, for example:
- Supplementary schools or part-time schools
- Religious settings offering education e.g. yeshivas, madrasahs,
- Sunday schools, other faith groups, Kumon etc
- Tuition or learning centres
- Single discipline clubs or settings (e.g. sports clubs, music, art,dance, drama tuition, martial arts training)
- Uniformed youth organisations e.g. Scouts, Guides, Cadets
It would not cover nursery or childcare providers, or children educated at home by their parents.
A code of practice and kite mark for ensuring safe practice is followed in OOSS has been developed by the DfE through pilot programmes in sixteen local authorities including eleven London boroughs: Barking & Dagenham, Brent, Ealing, Hackney, Hammersmith & Fulham, Havering, Kensington & Chelsea, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest and Westminster.
