The register is empty
No venues are listed.
Nobody has yet supplied and signed off the five facts required for an entry. Rather than pad the page, we are telling you it is empty and leaving it empty until somebody does.
An empty register is not a failure of the model. It is what the model looks like before anyone has taken part, and publishing it empty is the only way we can later tell you plainly what it contains. A register that quietly filled up with entries nobody could check would be worse than nothing.
What an entry contains
An entry is five facts and a name. Nothing else. No description, no photographs, no marketing copy, no star rating, no commentary from us, and no ranking of any kind.
- Registered company number. Which means you can look the business up yourself on the Companies House register and see who runs it, how long it has existed and whether its filings are up to date.
- Public liability insurer and policy expiry month. The name of the insurer, not the value of the cover. An insurer can be checked; a claimed sum cannot.
- Date of last documented risk assessment. A month and a year. Not the contents, which are the venue’s own document, but the date, which tells you whether it is a living document or a filing cabinet item.
- Accessibility provision. A factual list: step free access, accessible toilet, changing facilities, hoist, quiet room, and whether a carer goes free.
- Quiet or sensory friendly sessions. Whether they run, and how often. Yes, no, or a frequency.
Every entry carries the same standing line, at the same size as the entry itself: this is a paid entry, we have not inspected this venue, and a listing here is not a safety endorsement.
The sign off
A venue supplies the five facts and signs a declaration that they are accurate at the date given. We publish what they signed, with that date attached. We do not verify the facts ourselves, and we say so on the page, because a claim to verify would be a claim to a capability we do not have.
What we do instead is publish only facts that you can check independently. A company number can be looked up. An insurer can be looked up on the Financial Conduct Authority register. A risk assessment date can be asked about at the counter and compared with what was declared. That is the design principle: we sell disclosure, not approval.
Order, labelling and what it is not
Entries appear in alphabetical order by venue name. There is no other order available, no featured position, no premium placement, no bumping and no bidding. Paying more is not possible, because there is one rate.
Every entry is labelled as a paid entry. The register itself is labelled at the top and the bottom. It does not appear inside articles, it is not linked from any article body, and no article mentions any venue in it, because no article mentions any venue at all.
Removal
An entry is removed immediately, without refund of the remaining period, if any of the five facts turns out to be untrue. It is also removed on request by the venue at any time, and at the end of the paid period unless renewed. We will not remove an entry because a competitor asked us to.
If you are a parent and something in an entry looks wrong, tell us via the contact page. We will put it to the venue and, if it cannot be substantiated, take the entry down.
What it costs and what it cannot buy
The rate, the criteria and the full list of things we refuse to sell at any price are on the criteria and rates page. The short version: it cannot buy a mention in an article, a position, a rating, or any change to any safety guidance on this site.