Bright World guardianship programmes for Pocklington School students

Bright World team

Pocklington School and Bright World Guardianships

The majority of UK boarding schools require all overseas pupils to have a UK guardian. A guardian should be a responsible adult living in the UK who can be there in an emergency situation on behalf of parents. The importance of assigning a professional guardian for international students at UK boarding schools cannot be overestimated.

Pocklington School is committed to ensuring the safety of all their students. To assist parents with choosing an appropriate guardian, Pocklington has entered into a strategic partnership with Bright World Guardianships.

Accredited by AEGIS (Association for the Education and Guardianship of International Students) to Gold standard Bright World can offer a choice of two programmes to suit all students' needs and to ensure that safeguarding standards are met.

option 1 - Essential Guardianship

Students at Pocklington School can must leave the boarding house during half terms and at the end of each term. Boarding houses remain open on exeat weekends, but boarders can choose to leave on these weekends if they choose.

Where parents do not require our host family accommodation during the holiday times, they can opt for a specially discounted Essential Guardianship Package.

Where children stay with a family friend for the holidays, Bright World will liaise with that friend and conduct ID checks and verification of arrangements in accordance with safeguarding requirements of Pocklington School and Bright World.

If at any point you wish to change your mind and start to use our host family service we can upgrade your programme to Full Guardianship but will need the supplementary payment of fees to be settled and any expenses fund lodgement made prior to those arrangements being confirmed.

option 2 - Full Guardianship

This is our standard guardianship service and includes allocating a host family for holidays where needed.

Services and fees

guardianship fees and package options

Students enrolling will benefit from a specially reduced guardianship fee that has been negotiated with Pocklington School on behalf of their overseas parents. Essential Guardianship: The cost for Essential Guardianship is £1,980 per annum payable in advance. For shorter term guardianship, termly charges will be £660 per term. We do not allow termly fee payments and fees must be paid for the duration of the academic year in advance. Emergency host family and travel assistance is available if needed and subject to extra charges as listed in the Optional Extra costs below. These will be charged as extra. Full Guardianship: For those students who need a regular host family and assistance with UK travel, in addition to our standard Guardianship service, the Full Guardianship option will be the ideal choice. An initial expenses fund deposit is collected at the beginning of the year to cover the costs of these extra services and a host family will be allocated in advance of the start of the school year. Parents will have access to our Host Family Selection Tool and will be able to help us to choose their host family. The cost for Full Guardianship is £2,385 per annum payable in advance PLUS £1,500 expenses fund. For shorter term guardianship, termly charges will be £795 per term plus £500 per term deposit. We do not allow termly fee payments and fees must be paid for the duration of the academic year in advance.

Services from your Guardianship Care Manager at our Head Office

Services from your Bright World Buddy (Our Local Coordinator)

Transport services

Emergency host family stays for Essential Guardianship students

Host Family accommodation for Full Guardianship students

Emergency assistance 24/7

Blink for parents - your Bright World in the cloud

Parents Evenings

why choose Bright World Guardianships?

The Bright World Guardianships Team

A trustworthy service from an experienced team of professionals 

Bright World was established in 2000 and has been dedicated to offering UK guardianship to international students ever since. Our staff are all expertly trained in Child Protection and Customer Service to create the optimum service for parents and to provide the support and mentoring that young children studying in the UK require.

Accredited to Gold Standard by AEGIS

Bright World has been accredited by AEGIS, the Association for the Education & Guardianship of International Students, since 2006. Bright World is a gold standard member, offering guardianship at the highest standard possible in the UK.

Multi award-winning guardianship since 2000

Bright World won the Guardianship Provider category at the StudyTravel Secondary Awards for 5 consecutive years 2021-2025. Winning 5 times means that Bright World has gained First Class Winner status demonstrating a consistently high standard and reputation. Voted for by schools and educational agents, the awards celebrate outstanding services in the International education industry.

Impressive cloud-based portal and Student App

The online portal was designed to meet the needs of overseas parents and students and includes a unique Host Family Selection tool. Our Student App is available to download and contains all the information a student will need to guide them through their guardianship programme.

Well considered, safe host family accommodation

Bright World can offer safe and secure host family accommodation during both planned and unexpected events. Find more about our host families below.

our team dedicated to our Pocklington School guardianship students

Su Warren

Su Warren

Director of Guardianships

Su oversees the Guardianship, Host Family, Travel and Safeguarding Teams and will be overseeing our strategic partnership with Pocklington School.

Isabelle Amor

Isabelle Amor

Guardianship Care Manager

Isabelle is a long standing member of the Bright World team and will manage our student activities there.