Outdoor Education Advisers' Panel

Review of Vetting and Barring Scheme to not include Exchange Visits.

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Head teachers from state and independent schools have joined forces to attack new safety laws that could jeopardise language exchange trips and work experience placements. More...

Council for Learning Outside the Classroom Conference Judith Hackitt CBE, HSE Chair, 3 December 2009 More...

Mobile wall stolen in West Bromwich More...

Teachers and others will now find it easier to take young people out and about as Schools Minister Diana Johnson today launched a consultation on simple and straightforward guidance to cut red tape. Teachers and others will now find it easier to take young people out and about as Schools Minister Diana Johnson today launched a consultation on simple and straightforward guidance to cut red tape. More...

In an interview with The Guardian, Sir Roger Singleton, the chairman of the Independent Safeguarding Authority, said it would be "foolish to blindly ignore" the wave of public concern about the Vetting and Barring Scheme amid fears it could deter people from volunteering for traditional activities. He was reviewing, for example, whether host parents of pupils staying as part of a school exchange trip should have to register. They do under the current rules as they provide overnight care. More...

The Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA) is inviting schools, LAs and other interested stakeholders to comment on the suitability and feasibility of administering the tests in the proposed week in june 2011

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Outdoor Adventure Week 2010 - PRESS, PUBLICITY AND PR EVENT – to help you use OAW010 to raise your profile in the media” More...

Article in Daily Mail on ISA vetting of Host Families for Exchange students.

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Pool leap death inquiry scheduled

Laura McDairmant died after falling onto rocks An inquiry is to be held into the death of a teenager on an adventure holiday in south west Scotland three years ago.

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