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COB GDPR and TFC update

We are delighted to announce that we have rolled out an update for our after school booking system that includes extended functionality to help school and clubs manage their data protection responsibilities for the new laws in May (GDPR), as well as support for Tax-Free Childcare.

CoB to support Tax-Free Childcare

We will be rolling out support for Tax-Free Childcare (TFC) before April, enabling you to provide up to 30 hours for parents that are eligible, as well as using funds paid via the TFC system, in much the same way that childcare vouchers are now, as parents can choose to pay via the aforementioned system.

General Data Protection Regulation

The Data Protection Bill, announced in the Queen’s Speech at the end of June, will replace existing data protection legislation on both corporate data and data processing by law enforcement agencies.

CoB special offers for OOSA members

We are delighted to be teaming up with the Out of School Alliance (OOSA) and offering discounted rates for their members. We are also giving away a life time license for The Childcare on-line Booking (CoB) system to one lucky OOSA member in October, but we will leave Clare her team to tell their members about that later today in their October newsletter.

after school and holiday club booking system launched

We have developed a number of childcare booking systems for a range of after school clubs, city academies and schools across the United Kingdom and have developed an off the shelf version of our hugely successful after school on-line booking system. The Childcare on-line Booking (CoB) system provides childcare administrators with a solution that caters for registration, bookings, parent queries and feedback, after-school activities, breakfast clubs, extras, after-school childcare (i.e. childcare

CoB and PCI DSS Compliance

We have designed The Childcare on-line Booking (CoB) system to ensure schools, after school clubs and out of school provision providers can comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) requirements, when processing credit and debit cards payments through CoB.

second on-line after school club booking system launched

Following the successful launch of the on-line after school club booking system we developed for Fun in School Holidays (FiSH), Busy Living approached us to develop a system for their business. Initially we thought that they would be able to use the same system as FiSH, but following our conversations we realised that there were a number of differences between the two businesses and therefore recommended a customised version. The system was launched at the end of August and has bedded in well an