The Secondary Heads Association is opposed to NASUWT's decision to reaffirm its recommendation that its members should not go on trips, a decade after first warning them about the dangers of taking pupils on school excursions.
An NASUWT spokeswoman said its stance was "highly regrettable" but, in recent high-profile cases, teachers had been heavily penalised and some had lost their jobs as a result of alleged misjudgments.
"In an increasingly litigious society, which no longer appears to accept the concept of a genuine accident, our first responsibility must be to protect our members' interests," she said.
But Bob Carstairs, assistant general secretary of the Secondary Heads Association, said: "We think that there are sufficient safeguards in the system to ensure that teachers should not be too vulnerable."
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