PREMIER LEAGUE

EDUCATION AND WELFARE
Category 3 and 4 Academies will not necessarily be equipped to provide the Formal Education component at the training
ground. Category 3 and 4 Academies may choose to deliver the Formal Education Programme off site at a local education
provider. This will require Heads of Education to ensure that as flexible an Education Programme as possible can be created
in partnership with a school/college so that coaches can gain access to the required time for coaching.
Welfare, Social Development and Lifestyle Management
178. Each Club which operates an Academy shall establish a programme to educate each of its
Academy Players in Lifestyle Management Skills.
179. The programme referred to in Rule 178 shall ensure that each Academy Player trained under
the Full Time Training Model and/or in the Professional Development Phase has the
opportunity to engage in activities outside the Academy which will encourage him to take an
active part in the community and develop an understanding of good citizenship.
180. Each Academy Player shall engage in the activities referred to in Rule 179 unless he has good
cause not to do so and each Club shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that each of its
Academy Players does so engage.
181. Each Club which operates an Academy shall nominate a member of Academy Staff to manage
and deliver the said programme.
Player Exit/Release Strategy
182. Each Club which operates an Academy shall devise and implement a programme, to be
managed by its Head of Education and Welfare or other appropriate Official to assist its
Academy Players released from the Academy at completion of their Under 16, Under 17 or Under
18 year in circumstances where it appears they will not be joining another Club (or club).
183. Any such programme in respect of Academy Players being released at the completion of their
Under 18 year shall be designed so that it dovetails with the support programme for such
released Academy Players to be operated by the League.
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