Own Placements Information

The EBeBP can only place students within East Berkshire. However, if a student or a parent, guardian or relation has a contact within a company then the student can arrange his or her own work experience placement with that contact, whether it be in Berkshire or beyond. Please note, if the placement is outside of East Berkshire then there may be a charge of no more than £35 for arrangement costs.

The contact agreeing to the placement at the company will need to fill in section D, entitled "Finding Your Own Placement", on the reverse of the application form. Please ensure that all details, such as Employer Liability Insurance, are filled in and that the form is signed by the contact offering the work experience placement.

The placement can only be confirmed and a health and safety visit arranged if the form is signed and the details filled in correctly. The student will still need to go through the standard work experience process via his or her school in case, for some reason. the own placement cannot go ahead.

If you are able to offer a placement for your child, or for one of their peers, please complete the Own Placement form.

 

Information for Students Arranging Their Own Placement

During the summer holidays of 2011, if a student is looking to arrange his or her own placement please advise them of the following: to avoid delay in processing your Own Placements for the Autumn Term, please send your completed Own Placement form  as an attachment to Priya Patel. (This especially relates to students of the following schools: Herschel Grammar, St Bernards Grammar, Langley Grammar, Slough Grammar & Burnham Grammar.)

 

Health & Safety Checks

Prior to a student's placement at a business, a health and safety visit will be carried out by a fully trained employee of the EBeBP. This is simply to ensure that the company offering placement meets the required health and safety standards.
All places of work are health and safety checked. This includes all new companies offering placements, and all existing companies due for an update.

In exceptional circumstances when there is no opportunity for a company to have a pre-placement health and safety check and the student still wishes to attend then the parent or guardian must sign a disclaimer in full knowledge that the EBeBP has nothing to do with this placement and NO liability should anything happen.

Should the parent or guardian be unwilling to sign the disclaimer then the placement would have to be cancelled.

 

Employers Liability Insurance

All employers offering work experience placements for students will be required to hold a minimum of £5,000,000 Employer's Liability Insurance. For the Burnham based schools, companies will also need to hold a minimum of £2,000,000 Public Liability Insurance.

Again, in exceptional circumstances where an employer does not hold this level of insurance, a disclaimer will be produced for your parent or guardian to sign. This disclaimer will be in agreement of the student attending the placement and that the EBeBP has NO liability should anything happen.

Should the parent or guardian be unwilling to sign the disclaimer then the placement would have to be cancelled.

For more information on health and safety related issues please contact Priya Patel or telephone 01753 502384.

 

CRB, Criminal Records Bureau

It is important that in the course of our work, we at the EBeBP, protect the young people and students we work with. All employees of the EBeBP have had Criminal Record Bureau (CRB) checks in accordance with company guidlines.

In addition, depending on the nature of the work involved, we also run checks on business volunteers. CRB requirements are entirely dependent on the nature of the volunteering work or work placement.

For more general information on CRB checks please see the Criminal Records Bureau website.