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Monday, 28 June 2010 Play England has today announced a proposed reorganisation in the light of the imminent reduction in the value of its contracts with the Department for Education for 2010-11 and the changing policy context for the play agenda under the coalition government. More... Tags: National News
A body recovered from a Cumbrian lake was that of a missing canoeist, police have confirmed. Chad Salisbury, 18, from Leyland in Lancashire, failed to surface after overturning on Ullswater on Saturday afternoon. Tags: Health and Safety, National News
A council has been found not guilty of breaching health and safety law over the death of a boy who drowned on a school caving trip. More... Tags: Health and Safety, National News
The report says children are entitled to experiences outside the classroom Children in England are spending too much time in the classroom, according to a report by MPs. More... Tags: National News
Latest LOTC news inc part 3 of article by OEAP chair Martin Smith More... Sedentary lifestyles are making children less fit - even among those who are not obese, a study suggests. Essex University staged fitness tests on 600 10-year-olds a decade apart in an area with low levels of obesity. They found significant falls in fitness levels, concluding the average 10-year-old in 1998 could beat 95% of youngsters in 2008 in running tests. The researchers said the focus on obesity was obscuring the health risks of wider declines in fitness levels. Children are routinely weighed and measured in schools in England as part of the government's drive to tackle rising obesity rates, but there is no equivalent for fitness. More... Council for Learning Outside the Classroom Conference Judith Hackitt CBE, HSE Chair, 3 December 2009 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... Outdoor Adventure Week 2010 - PRESS, PUBLICITY AND PR EVENT – to help you use OAW010 to raise your profile in the media” More... Tags: National News
Article in Daily Mail on ISA vetting of Host Families for Exchange students.
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