Out of School Services

Out of school services (OSS) is the term covering before-school, after-school and school-holiday programmes for school children aged 5-13 years. It is where care of a child has been formally handed over from a parent or caregiver to an OSS provider.

Research Publications

Project
Thu 12 Aug, 2010

Out of School Services and Care

What's important to parents?

We've commissioned a survey to find out what is important to parents when choosing Out of School services and care.

Report
Thu 1 Feb, 2007

When school’s out

Conversations with parents, carers and children about out of school services

This report is intended to provide information from which to develop an OSS Five-Year Action Plan, led by the Ministry of Social Development. It draws on information from a large consultation exercise that asked a wide range of parents, carers and children how they would like to see OSS develop.