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Consent template

Guardian Consent and Activity Permission

A guardian's permission for a programme and its activities, with collection, photographs, swimming and health all answered as fields.

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Where this comes from

Not a sample we wrote for this page. This is the document the product puts in your account, as a draft, the moment you say what you do.

Written for your trade

Name your trade during setup — summer camps, schools and field trips — and this is waiting for you, already written, in your words, with the blanks marked and the points a lawyer settles flagged for one. Edit it, or paste in what you already use.

It is a starting point and not legal advice: the wording is yours to change and your attorney's to check.

How it reaches your account

  1. Say what you do. Pick your trade when you set up; nothing to find or download.
  2. It is there as a draft. The 15 blanks marked, and 2 points flagged for a lawyer.
  3. Settle the notes, then send. The product will not send it with a note still in it.

How this works for summer camps, schools and field trips

What it asks you to fill in

Read off the document itself, so this list cannot drift away from what the document actually asks for.

15 blanks in this document

guardian nameparticipant namedate of birthdateprogram namebusiness namestart dateend dateactivitiestripssupervision ratioauthorised collectorshealth notesswim abilityphoto permission

Each one is a box on the send screen, and a value your own system can pass through the API. The rest of the wording is the same for every signer.

How they are filled

  • Once per send, from what you already know.
  • Or from your own system, through the API.
  • Into the document, never into its wording.
  • What somebody signed is the version they were shown.
Page one of the Guardian Consent and Activity Permission, as a blank copy for Example Business: the document's title and opening clauses, with a line for each blank still to be filled in.
Page one as the dashboard prints a blank copy: every blank a line, named.

Questions it can ask

Beyond the blanks, a template can ask the signer questions. These come from the product's own question library and suit this document; add them, change them, or write your own.

As the signer sees them
  • Parent or guardian
  • Child's full nameAsked once for each child
  • Child's date of birthAsked once for each child
  • Initial for each childAsked once for each child
  • Any allergies we should know aboutLeave blank if none.OptionalHidden from staff once answered
  • Any medication we should know aboutOptionalHidden from staff once answered
  • You may use photographs of me

Each question is checked where it is answered — a date that is on the calendar, a birthday that is not in the future, an address long enough to be one — in the same words on the signing page, on the counter tablet and in the API, and the signature waits until every required one is done.

  • Sections. Group questions under a heading, and give a section a page of its own.
  • Conditions. Show a question only when an earlier answer calls for it; a hidden question is never asked and never owed.
  • Flags. Put an answer in front of your staff when it needs a person, such as a safety box left unticked.
  • Questions first. Ask them before the document is shown, and the document after.

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What a lawyer has to settle

These are the notes already written into the document, not our opinion about the law where you operate. The product refuses to send a document with one still in it, which is the point of them.

Check the rules on photographing and identifying children where you operate, and whether a separate signed release is required.

In many places a guardian cannot release a minor's own claim; check what this document can and cannot do where you operate, and what a licensed programme is required to include.

SignSealer does not give legal advice and this document is not legal advice. What it does is put the questions in front of you before somebody signs, rather than after.

The document

The real text, with the blanks shown as blanks and the notes above lifted out so they are read rather than skimmed past.

Guardian Consent and Activity Permission

I, guardian name, am the parent or legal guardian of participant name, born date of birth, and I sign this on date for program name at business name, running from start date to end date.

  1. Permission. I give permission for the child to take part in program name and in the activities it includes, which are: activities. I have read what each involves and I am satisfied the child can take part.
  2. Off site. I give permission for the child to leave the site for the trips listed here — trips — supervised by business name's staff, and to travel to them as set out in the transportation authorization.
  3. Supervision and behaviour. I understand the ratio of staff to children is supervision ratio, that the child is supervised during programme hours and not before or after them, and that I am responsible for the child at all other times. I have read the code of conduct and I understand that a child who repeatedly breaks it may be sent home at my cost.
  4. Collection. The child may be collected only by me or by the people named here: authorised collectors. Anybody collecting the child may be asked for identification.
  5. Health. The child's health, allergies, medication, dietary needs and anything staff should watch for are written here: health notes. Medication is handed to staff labelled and in its original container, with written instructions.
  6. Sun, water and heat. If the programme includes swimming or open water, the child's ability is: swim ability. I understand that a child whose ability is not what I have written here is at risk, and I have written it accurately.
  7. Photographs. Whether the child's image may be used, and where, is set here: photo permission. If I say no, that answer is respected in every publication and posting.
  8. The risks. Group activity with children carries risks that supervision reduces and cannot remove. I accept the ordinary risks of the activities listed, and nothing here waives a claim the law does not allow a guardian to waive on a child's behalf.

By signing I confirm that I am the child's parent or legal guardian, that I have read this, and that I meant to sign it.

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