Staff is regularly sent on workshops and courses with NZ Career College, Out of School Care Network and more recently the Oscar Foundation.  There is a minimum of 1 staff member on site within each programme who holds their 1^st Aid certificates. Having a full NZ drivers License is a requirement and all but casual staff hold this.   All staff when recruited is either parents themselves and or have worked with children (schools, other OSCAR programmes and or Early Childhood Care).