Is your school becoming an Academy? Are you worried about your CLEAPSS membership? DON'T PANIC! There are several ways that Academies can access CLEAPSS services.

- Directly. An Academy can join to CLEAPSS directly by taking up Associate membership - for the costs of this, please see the Guide to CLEAPSS services for Associate members L0i.

- Through your local authority. Many local authories continue to offer Academies the opportunity to be members of CLEAPSS through them - they will charge you a fee for this but it is likely to work out cheaper than joining  CLEAPSS directly - speak to the science adviser or health and safey officer in your LA.

- Through another local authority. If your local authority is not offering CLEAPSS membership to academies in its area, you may be able to join CLEAPSS through a neighbouring one.

- The CLEAPSS RPA service. Any school that holds radiaoctive materials must, by law, appoint a Radiation Protection Adviser. The CLEAPSS RPA service is a cost effective way to do this. At the moment you cannot join the service directly through CLEAPSS - you must join through a Local Authority (this is because the service relies on the existance of a locally appointed Radiation Protection Officer). If your local authority is not offering this service then you may be able to  join through a neighbouring one. Contact CLEAPSS for details. Remember, you must be a member of CLEAPSS to join the CLEAPSS RPA service.

- Making the case for CLEAPSS membership. If you find yourself needing to argue the case for CLEAPSS membership in your school, the attatched document "Why CLEAPSS ?" may help you organise your thoughts.