Become a healthy holiday provider

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council has been awarded funding from the Department for Education through the Holiday Activity and Food programme, known locally as Rotherham Healthy Holidays. This programme requires that free holiday places be made available for eligible children and young people aged FS2 to year 11.

The funding is open to constituted voluntary groups, faith groups, charities, private sector organisations, and schools who can demonstrate they can meet the aims and minimum standards of the project as shown below.

If you are interested in becoming a Rotherham Healthy Holiday provider, please contact us here. 

Minimum standards

We expect all providers who are funded through the Rotherham Healthy Holidays programme to meet the framework of standards laid out by the DfE. The standards that we expect for providers are:

Food

Clubs provide at least one meal a day and must meet school food standards.

Enriching activities

Clubs must provide fun and enriching activities that provide children with opportunities to develop new skills or knowledge, to consolidate existing skills and knowledge, or to try out new experiences.

Physical activities

Clubs must provide activities which meet the Physical Activity Guidelines daily.

Increase awareness of healthy eating, healthy lifestyles, and positives behaviours

Clubs must include an element of nutritional education aimed at improving the knowledge and awareness of healthy eating for children.

Signposting and referrals

Clubs must be able to provide information, signposting or referrals to other services and support that would benefit the children who attend their provision and their families.

Policies and procedures

Clubs must be able to demonstrate and explain their safeguarding arrangements and have relevant and appropriate policies and procedures in place in relation to:

• safeguarding
• health and safety
• insurance
• accessibility and inclusiveness
• where appropriate, clubs must also be compliant with the Ofsted requirements for working with children