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| Frewen Feltmaker |
HELP - crb, insurance and other "workshop" beaurocCan anyone help me?I have just come off the phone - having been asked to do a Christmas workshop with children (6+) . It's a one off thing and I'm just thinking what do I need to put in place? CRB check? Health and Safety? Public liability insurance? The children will be with their parents and the organisers want to do two sessions making a sheet of wet felt each time... THey are calling back tommorw and I'm clueless 
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| sean |
I don't think that you need a CRB check if the parents will be there.
You'll need insurance of some sort (either theirs or yours) and a risk assessment. |
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| Hairyloon |
Re: HELP - crb, insurance and other "workshop" bea
Who by? If it is an organisation, then I'd think they'd have to have insurance. Likewise CRB checks would be their responsibility (I think). Whether it covers you would probably depend what you are doing. |
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| ian1 |
pretty sure a CRB is needed if working with children. | ||
| RichardW |
Ditto what Sean said.
Plus you cant get a CRB anyway. You need an employer / holding body to do the check on you. You cant do one on yourself. It causes lots of problems for people that are selfemployed but need one. They have to get some one else to do one on them. |
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| Hairyloon |
Regarding Health & Safety, just do a risk assessment: identify possible risks, and how you would moderate them, and how you would deal with any consequences. | ||
| gz |
PL insurance I have just got as an add-on to my NFU Mutual House/Contents/Homeworker/Workshop/Stock/Exhibitions Insurance- oh yes and Employers Liability too!
A bargain as you are not paying for brokers, and as it is a mutual, you get members discounts next year 
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| sally_in_wales |
Ian Wallace Craftsman Insurance will cover workshops as well as selling if you tell them when you sign up the range of things you do, so it will then cover you for any sales you make or teaching you do during the next year.
Insist on never being alone with any individual and you should be fine without the CRB check- as has been said already they take ages to come through and have to be done by the body employing you anyway. A common sense risk assessment will dmeonstrate that you have taken due care and thought through any likely risks and how to minimise them. you'll be great!
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| Frewen Feltmaker |
You can tell I am having a panic then  
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| gz |
I had a look at Ian Wallace...expensive!! | ||
| sally_in_wales |
really? I paid about £65ish with them a couple of years ago, this year I'm with the Market Traders federatiosn, has he gone up a lot then? |
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| sally_in_wales |
this might be an option too, apparently you get free PL insurance with a subscription to the magazine! https://www.a-n.co.uk/join_in/article/472193 | ||
| Frewen Feltmaker |
That looks really good 
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| Frewen Feltmaker |
I have gone with the a-n subscription
Thanks for the steer - I love DS 
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