Secondary Carers

The Club is for Members and their immediate resident family. Domestic helpers, amahs, nannies, au pairs, chauffeurs, other personal servants and temporary guardians (“Secondary Carers”) are not considered part of such immediate family. While many members’ clubs in Manila do not permit access to Secondary Carers at all, they are permitted to come into The Club @ Essensa under certain limited circumstances.

Parents are strongly urged to be with, and responsible for, their children as much as possible when their children are using The Club, especially during weekends and public holidays when Members and/or their spouses are usually not working. Members and spouses must not bring their Secondary Carers with them to The Club purely for the purpose of looking after their children, whether or not they themselves are involved in other activities. There are aspects of care and control, safety and liability, alone, which mean that The Club must also not be used as a general facility for Secondary Carers, in place of Members and their spouses, to bring children to. The exception to this is at the Children’s indoor and outdoor play facilities.

However, it is recognized that there are times when neither parent is able to bring their children to attend certain coaching and other activities/classes organized by The Club. With few exceptions, then, and only then, will Secondary Carers be permitted to bring, and be responsible for, children of Members in their stead.

Therefore, apart from the above concession, Secondary Carers are not permitted to carry on their vocation, as such, on The Club premises.

Members or their spouses may bring Secondary Carers to our Club as Guests (but, as with all Guests, such Member or spouse must always accompany them while on Club premises and be responsible for their conduct at all times) and, as such, they must not be treated as personal servants.

Note:
Restrictions applicable to chauffeurs may also be found in the Car Parking House Rules and Regulations.

1.

A Secondary Carer is only permitted access to The Club either

(a)

as the Guest of a Member, Nominee, Associate Member or spouse thereof; or;

(b)

as the bearer of a Guardian’s Card, subject to the conditions upon which such card is issued.

2.

Members, Nominees and Associates Members may apply to the Management for a Guardian’s Card to permit a Secondary Carer to accompany children of that Member, Nominee of Associate Member, in the absence of both parents, to participate in coaching programs and other activities or classes organized by The Club and so designated.

3.

Upon payment of such fee as shall be determined from time to time by the Committee, a Guardian’s Card may be issued upon the following terms and conditions:

(a)

such Card may only be used by the named card holder and in respect of the child or children and the programs, activities and classes for which it is issued or endorsed;

(b)

the named card holder must present such card and sign-in and complete the required details on the Register for that purpose at Reception when accessing The Club;

(c )

with the exception set out in (e) below, only, named card holders must wait in an area reserved for such purpose when children under their care are attending a coaching program or other activity or class and must remain on The Club premises and in such area for the duration thereof;

(d)

named card holders must vacate The Club premises promptly after the coaching program or other activity or class concerned is completed or upon the arrival of either or both parents of children under their care;

(e)

a sibling or siblings of any child attending a coaching program or activity or class, where both or all children are under the care of the named card holder, may utilize the Children’s Playroom, under the supervision of the named card holder, while waiting.

4.

Secondary Carers are not permitted to wait for Members, Nominees, Associate Members or their families in Gallery Lounges or Reception Lobbies or meet there with other Secondary Carers.

5.

Members, Nominees and Associate Members are responsible at all times for the conduct of their Secondary Carers while they are on Club premises.

6.

The Committee or Management may permit such exceptions to these House Rules and Regulations as they shall see fit, either generally or on a case by case basis, upon application by a Member, Nominee or Associate Member or in respect of any particular venue, coaching program or other activity or class.