Insurance for Out of School Clubs
Protect your business and the children in your care.
Morton Michel Out of School insurance
Insurance for out of school clubs is suitable for settings that provide wraparound care and offer supervised play-led learning. This can be either before or after school hours and outside of term time. This is aimed at those who are usually in school and those with special needs up to the age of 16.Is this the right policy for me?
If you provide activities focused on the entertainment and/or development of children, such as dance you will need to consider applying for the Children’s Activity Providers insurance. If you are providing sports coaching, you will need to consider applying for the Children’s Sports Coaches Insurance.
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Levels of Cover Available
Our Out of School insurance is available in three levels of cover:
Essential cover
Provides cover with employers’, product, treatment and public liability insurance for out of school clubs. You also get professional indemnity cover and legal expenses protection.
Extra cover
Provides the same protection as Essential, but also includes cover for portable equipment and money:
- Portable equipment cover in case of damage or theft, including from your vehicle overnight
- Loss of money cover in transit, or in your business
Executive cover
Provides the same level of protection as Essential and Extra, but also includes further cover including:
- Contents cover of £5,000
- Equipment breakdown up to £5,000,000
- Business interruption at £100,000.
- Personal accident protection for officials and children
- Employee dishonesty at £25,000
You can view the policy summary guide for details of the significant policy benefits, conditions and limits. Full terms and conditions can be found in the policy wording
Why choose Morton Michel for Out of School Club insurance?
We've been working with the out of school sector since 1995 so we understand the insurance needs of out of school clubs. We offer flexible insurance solutions and services, including:
- a dedicated, specialist team who understands the requirements of the childcare and education sector and the challenges you face every day.
- access to over 80 RoSPA-accredited, CPD-certified online training courses from flick learning for all your staff.
- training and discounts for you and your staff through our exclusive ChildCare Club.
- access to our exclusive Employee Benefits Hub which can be passed on to employees and their families.
*Morton Michel ChildCare Club Benefits, flick learning, and the Employee Benefits Hub do not form part of the FCA regulated products. These are provided as an additional service.
Our Out of School Club insurance allows you to choose from three levels of cover; Essential, Extra or Executive cover, which means you only pay for the cover you need.
What's covered?
Essential Cover
Extra Cover
Executive Cover
Employers' Liability
Employers’ Liability covers the cost of compensating employees who are injured at or become ill through work due to employers’ negligence.
You must take all reasonable precautions and comply with all relevant statutory requirements, and you are not covered for fines penalties and punitive awards.
Public and Products Liability
Public and Products Liability covers your business if you or your employees are held legally liable for accidental injury to clients, customers or the public, or for damage to their property as a result of your business's activities or products.
You will not be covered for bodily injury to employees, fines, penalties and punitive awards, and sports involving weapons. You must follow all relevant statutory requirements and take all reasonable precautions to prevent a loss.
Treatment Liability
Treatment Liability insurance can protect against customer claims of injury, illness or property damage due to the services or advice provided by your business.
You will not be covered for bodily injury to employees or fines, penalties and punitive awards and you must follow all relevant statutory requirements and take all reasonable precautions to prevent a loss.
Professional Indemnity
Professional Indemnity insurance is designed to protect you if a client or customer of yours loses money because of advice or services you've offered in connection with your business.
You will not be covered for claims or circumstances that you are aware of or that have been or should have been reported to a previous policy, bodily injury or property damage other than as provided for under Loss of or Damage to Documents.
Legal Expenses
Legal Expenses is a way to help your business get access to legal support when you need it. It covers the costs of a legal dispute either made by or against you. It also provides a range of helplines for expert advice on business related legal and tax matters including employment law disputes.
You will not be covered for any claim with a less than 50% prospect of success, legal costs and expenses incurred without the insurers consent and claims not notified in a reasonable time. Helplines are subject to fair and reasonable use.
Portable Equipment
Portable Equipment insurance provides cover for your portable business equipment against accidental loss or damage.
You will not be covered for damage by theft or attempted theft from any unattended building which does not involve forcible and violent entry to or exit and damage by theft or attempted theft from any unattended vehicle overnight, during the hours of 9pm and 6am or after the completion of any working day of the driver other than as just described to you.
Money
Money insurance covers you for physical loss of business money.
You will not be covered for clerical or accounting errors or shortages due to error or omission, losses due to fraud or dishonesty by any official unless the loss is discovered within seven working days or loss from unattended vehicles.
Contents
Contents insurance provides cover for equipment at your premises, which is used solely in connection with your business, against unexpected loss or damage. For example, fire, theft, water damage and flood.
You will not be covered for the first £100 of any valid claim relating to electrical items and £50 for all other items, theft, or attempted theft from unattended vehicles outside of business hours and overnight or wear, tear or depreciation in value.
Equipment Breakdown
Equipment Breakdown provides cover against electrical or mechanical breakdown of electronic equipment (including computers and portable computer equipment).
You will not be covered for wear and tear or other gradually developing conditions, damage recoverable under maintenance agreements, warranties or guarantees, damage to equipment caused by a cyber event, e.g. virus, hacking and denial of service attack or taking reasonable precautions to prevent loss or damage.
Business Interruption
Business Interruption covers you for loss of income during periods when you cannot carry out business as usual due to an unexpected event.
You will not be covered for loss caused by damage excluded by the Property Damage section and if your interest in the business ceases other than by death or the business is wound up, insolvent or permanently discontinued.
Personal Accident for officials and children
Personal Accident cover provides compensation for an insured person aged under 75 years old should they sustain accidental bodily injury arising out of an insured event, resulting in death, loss of limb, loss of sight, hearing or speech or permanent or temporary total disablement.
You will not be covered for any pre-existing physical or mental disability, infirmity, medical condition, chronic or recurring ailment, intentional self-injury, suicide or attempted suicide or injury whilst being under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs.
Employee Dishonesty
Employee Dishonesty insurance covers you for the theft of your money or property belonging to you, by any of your employees.
You will not be covered for losses where you continue to entrust the defaulting employee with access to money or property or for loss of interest, profits or any indirect loss resulting from theft.
Optional sections of cover you can choose, at an additional cost when purchasing your insurance include:
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Directors' Trustees' and Officers'
Directors’, Trustees’ and Officers Liability insurance provides protection for third party financial losses and legal defence costs awarded against one of your directors, trustees or officers arising from a wrongful act by them in the course of their duties.
You will not be covered for fraud, dishonesty and illegal profits, medical malpractice, and actual or attempted sexual relations, sexual conduct, sexual harassment or sexual exploitation.
Personal Accident for Officials and Children
Personal Accident cover provides compensation for an insured person aged under 75 years old should they sustain accidental bodily injury resulting in arising out of an insured event, such as death, loss of limb, loss of sight, hearing or speech or permanent or temporary total disablement.
You will not be covered for any pre-existing physical or mental disability, infirmity, medical condition, chronic or recurring ailment, intentional self-injury, suicide or attempted suicide or injury whilst being under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs.
Automatically included
Cyber
Cyber Liability provides cover for cyber risks resulting in property damage, business interruption and legal liability.
You must back up original data at least every 7 days, make sure your computer system is protected by a virus protection software package which is licenced to you and updated at least every 7 days and appropriate procedures should be in place for disposing of and destroying hardware and hard copy files in order to protect data.
Trustees' and Officers' Financial Liability
Trustees’ and Officers Financial Liability provides protection for the trustees or officers of unincorporated charities or unincorporated associations against financial losses that they may be held individually liable for, such as in the event of the charity or association going insolvent by any cause out of their control.
You will not be covered for fraud, embezzlement, misappropriation or other criminal act or any trustee or officer, shortfall resulting from dishonoured cheques, use of counterfeit money, clerical/accounting errors or shortages due to error or omission or losses arising from closure of the business within the first six months from the inception of this policy.
Loss of Registration including Temporary Suspension of Registration
Loss of Registration is there to protect you against a reduction in gross revenue, an increase in cost of working or a depreciation in the value of your interest in the business or premises following cancellation of your registration certificate by your registering authority. It also covers you for temporary suspension of your registration.
You will not be covered for your business being wound up by a liquidator or receiver, or permanently discontinued, any losses after 3 months from the registration suspension date or after registration reinstated, whichever is the earlier and circumstances which were partly or wholly within or under your control.
Terrorism
Terrorism insurance provides cover against acts of Terrorism within England, Wales, Scotland and the Channel Tunnel up to the frontier with the Republic of France.
You will not be covered for riot, civil commotion, war, invasion, act of foreign enemy, hostilities (whether war be declared or not), civil war, rebellion, revolution or military power or losses arising out of nuclear installations or nuclear reactors.
Property Damage
Property Damage provides cover for items of property detailed in the quotation, such as buildings and contents for accidental loss, destruction, or damage.
You will not be covered for non-physical damage or items you have chosen not to insure, theft of property in the open, loss, destruction or damage caused by wind, rain, hail, sleet, snow, flood, dust or falling trees to moveable property in the open.
You can view the policy summary guide for details of the significant policy benefits, conditions and limits. Full terms and conditions can be found in the policy wording.
Morton Michel Added Benefits for Out of School Clubs
In addition to the standard cover you would expect, we offer a range of value-added benefits to support your business, staff and the children you coach including:
You will receive a multi-user licence to access over 80 RoSPA accredited and CPD-certified online training courses from flick learning for use by everybody connected to your business. Click here to view some frequently asked questions about flick learning.
Employee Benefits
For all policyholders, we offer free access to a wide range of market-leading retail discounts that you can pass on to your staff and their families.
Risk Management*
PIB Risk Management focuses on providing simple, creative and effective solutions to risk management, that really work in the workplace with tailored solutions for your business.
You will receive automatic entry to our ChildCare Club; a hub of additional discounts and benefits designed to support you, your staff, and your business.
Legal Helpline
ARAG plc provides expert advice on a range of business-related legal and tax matters including employment and law disputes. Helplines are subject to fair and reasonable use and will only incur the cost of the call (unless otherwise stated).
Legal Document Centre
Providing access to 100's of legal documents (with smart document building feature) to assist with running your business.
Counselling Service
Access to a confidential mental health counselling helpline through ARAG, operated by trained counsellors 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Helplines are subject to fair and reasonable use and will only incur the cost of the call (unless otherwise stated).
Tax Helpline
Your query will be dealt with by a qualified specialist experienced in handling tax-related matters. This service is available Monday to Friday from 9am - 5pm.
Identity Theft Resolution Service
Available to principals, executive officers, directors, and partners of your business to help keep your personal identity secure. Open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm (excluding bank holidays).
*Risk Management is provided at an additional cost.
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