TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR DANCERS
Membership
Your annual membership entitles you to;
Create a profile on danceresponse
1 year's display of the profile (subject to conditions below) and access to the online matching system
Process of Membership
Submit your online profile
Accept the terms and conditions and make payment
Send your requested documentation for verification
On approval by danceresponse your profile goes live
Cancellation of membership
You unsubscribe by sending danceresponse an email stating that you wish to be deleted from the system. We kindly ask you to provide reasons for wanting to terminate your association with dance response. You will be required to complete any outstanding bookings, unless a replacement dancer is agreed. Please note you forfeit your annual membership fee which remains with danceresponse
Annual Membership is £65 unless you register as part of an incentive scheme. Membership is renewable every twelve calendar months. You will be sent a reminder 2 months prior to your renewal date. If you do not renew your membership your profile will be ‘paused' on the day that your renewal is due.
As a dancer you will;
Upload information onto the website and ensure that your profile is kept up-to-date
Ensure the health and safety of participants, warming up and cooling down both yourself and the workshop participants
Provide workshops which are an enjoyable, qualitative learning experience for participants.
danceresponse reserves the right to visit any workshop, we will endeavour to contact you before any visit occurs.
Complete your own risk assessment when you arrive at the school. If you feel there is an on-going risk to working in the school you should provide feedback to danceresponse so that issues can be raised with the school.
Provide your own transport and note that additional money for travel is not available
Endeavour to fulfil a booking once it has been accepted
Inform danceresponse if you cannot fulfil a booking which you have accepted. If a replacement dancer cannot be found you will reimburse danceresponse for any costs incurred including a cancellation fee to the school
Ensure the profile is up-to-date and 'paused' if you are unavailable to work for a period of time
Ensure that the allotted code for the workshop and your danceresponse account number is clearly shown on any invoice along with dates and venues where you have worked
Ensure you pay their own tax and national insurance payments as your contract with danceresponse in no way implies you are an employee of the organisation
Look after any personal equipment or property which you take along to the workshop as it remains your responsibility (this includes any necessary insurance and legal requirements)
Check the emergency procedure with the school on your arrival and in the case of an emergency occurring handover responsibility to the responsible adult/s present from the school
Agree to be part of the peer monitoring system and understand that schools will provide a rating for your workshop between 1-5 and possibly a short statement about you and your work. If any of the ratings are 2 (or below) danceresponse staff will discuss this rating with both the school and yourself before it is placed against the profile. If you are consistently rated at 2 or below your profile will be ‘paused' and a member of danceresponse staff will contact you
Provide hard copies of CRB enhanced clearance, public liability insurance and education qualifications for verification before their profile goes live on the site. danceresponse will destroy the information once it has been verified.
Ensure that any publicity that you do in connection with the booking includes the following statement "The visit by [your name] was made possible by danceresponse"
Dancers will not
Take further bookings, or seek further bookings from schools they have made contact with through danceresponse unless it is through danceresponse.
Danceresponse will;
Send confirmation and full details of the school and workshop package once you have accepted the booking and the school has paid
Discuss any rating given to a dancer as part of the peer monitoring process, which is 2 or less, with both the school and dancer before it is placed against the dancer's profile.
‘Pause' the profile of any dancer who consistently receives ratings of 2 or below through the peer monitoring system and discuss a way forward, including CPD opportunities
Ensure that, as long as all paper work has been completed and a correctly completed invoice received, dancers are paid monthly for any work which they have undertaken though danceresponse
Verify dancer's CRB enhanced clearance, public liability insurance and education qualifications and then destroy the information.
Cannot be held responsible for any disagreements which arise between schools and dancers
Reserves the right to increase the annual membership and revise the terms and conditions
Will listen to feedback given by dancers on the system about ways to improve the service which we offer
Reserves the right to exclude any dancer from the system who fails to comply with any of the terms and conditions
Reserves the right to take legal action against any dancer who fails to comply with any of the terms and conditions
