Legal Guide - Getting it Right Legally

EQUIPE in partnership with the law firm Bates Wells and Braithwaite has developed a handbook providing guidance on legal status and structures for childcare and play providers. The idea for the guide came from the responses of the groups across the country involved in developing and trialling the 4Children toolkit for Voluntary Management Committees called ‘Making it Happen’. The feedback was that groups needed more help on the legal side – specifically guidance on the different legal structures and forms of governance – in order to select the most appropriate legal form for what they wanted to do.

The new handbook, called Getting It Right Legally was launched on the 1st November 2005. The guide also includes a short training film on an enclosed DVD.

The guide is intended to provide helpful advice, but this is necessarily of a general nature and specific advice should be taken for specific circumstances. The guide is available in electronic form and can be download by clicking the image.

The model constitutions forming part of 'Getting it Right Legally - status and structure for play and childcare organisations' available from this website below, are for use as models to complement the advice given in the publication, not as fully formed constitutional documents for direct adoption and use without any intervening consideration and advice particular to your organisation.

Please read the attached note before using the model memorandums and articles below:

Model - Memorandum / Articles

Model - Memorandum / Articles

Model - Memorandum / Articles

Model - Memorandum / Articles

Model - Memorandum / Articles

Playwork Partnerships is currently assessing the structure and content of one day and half day seminars to be held in 2006. We would welcome any comments you may have concerning this. Please send your comments/suggestions to the team at team@equipe.org.uk. Two events are being planned in March 2006 (dates to be confirmed). One event to be held in Leeds and one in London. If you would be interested in attending one of these 'how to use it' sessions please click here to email us.

Hard copies of the full pack available from the Playwork Partnerships office at the University of Gloucestershire. Email your request to team@equipe.org.uk. Please include your full postal address.