Is it safe to send my child on one of those outdoor adventures with hisschool? Reading the newspapers might make you hesitate.Fourteen-year-old Joseph Lister recently died of hypothermia when hebecame trapped by rising flood-water while pot-holing in Manchester Holein North Yorkshire.
And earlier this year, the Health and Safety Executive blamed a teacherfor failing to take sufficient care of a 10-year-old boy who drownedduring a school trip.
I thought the law was tightened up a few years ago. It was in theActivity Centres (Young Person's Safety) Act 1995 and the AdventureActivity Licensing Regulations 1996. Much of it was to do with carryingout risk assessments. But schools and some of the teaching unions areunhappy with the paperwork involved and are afraid of litigation ifsomething should go wrong.
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