Thank you for taking on the significant role of Education Guardian.
In consideration of this appointment:
Education Guardians must:
- Education Guardians are required to provide a home address, an email address and a telephone number for contact at any time. The home address should be the place where the boarder will normally stay when in the guardian’s care. Commercial accommodation, such as a hotel or youth hostel is not appropriate. Accredited Guardian Agencies may use the address of the main office. These details will appear on school internal mailing lists, after the parents’ addresses and contact details. These lists will not be distributed outside school.
- Education Guardians must be a responsible adult, able to act on your behalf in an emergency. They should be over 25, unless special dispensation has been given by the Deputy Head Boarding.
- Education Guardians must not have any criminal convictions
- Education Guardians must be capable of responding quickly to urgent situations that arise at school i.e., they must be contactable by telephone and/or email and be able to travel to Sevenoaks School within a reasonable time frame. (Not further than two hours of travel)
- Education Guardians must contact the boarding house within the first few weeks of appointment. Education Guardians are welcome to visit at other times, just as a parent/carer would.
- If education guardianship arrangements change at any time during the boarder’s time at Sevenoaks, parents must inform the school of the new contact details immediately.
- Boarding houses close on the last teaching day before half terms and end of terms. There is a full list of dates here. If a flight arrives or departs outside the stated boarding house opening times, or if for any reason travel services are restricted or cancelled, then the Education Guardian will be asked to collect the boarder and look after them until either the flight departs, or the boarding house reopens.
- In the event of disciplinary action by the school that results in suspension or expulsion and if the parents/carer are not available, then the Education Guardian will be required to take the boarder away from school and look after them.
- In the event of epidemic illness/school closure, if a parent/carer is not available, then the Education Guardian will be required to take the boarder away from school and look after them. Education Guardians must continue to look after a boarder who falls ill while under their care, returning them to school once they have recovered.
Education Guardians may:
- Guardians may represent parents at online parents/carers’ meetings, but parents should inform the school in advance if this is the case.
- Guardians may attend school functions such as Founder’s Day on parents’/carers behalf.
Updated June 2025
