27/11/2018
Following the Department for Education's guidance on 'Health and safety on educational visits', read Gill Harvey, our chief executive's, statement supporting the recommendations:
"The School Travel Forum welcomes the Department for Education’s recent recommendations around health and safety on school trips. The government’s new guidance document, which was published this week, is in line with the work that the School Travel Forum, our members and all Learning Outside the Classroom (LOtC) Quality Badge awarding bodies, have been promoting for many years. We are fully in support of all the advice it gives relating to consent, coordination, providers, and risk management, and will continue to lead the way in ensuring that health and safety is considered first and foremost in school travel situations. Further, the School Travel Forum would advise that all schools take these guidelines into consideration and, when in doubt, look for the LOtC Quality Badge."
