The Campaign seeks to show that life is best approached in a spirit of exploration, adventure and enterprise; to influence and better inform attitudes towards risk; to build wider recognition that chance, unforeseen circumstances and uncertainty are inescapable features of life and that absolute safety is unachievable; and to demonstrate that sensible education and preparation enable an appropriate balance to be achieved between risk & safety and achievement & opportunity.
How safe is Outdoor Learning?
Tuesday, 14 July 2009
How safe is Outdoor Learning?
The English Outdoor Council runs the numbers for us....
One area with which this campaign is concerned is the understanding of risk and learning to act well when faced with opportunity. Schools and Youth Activities are a rich source of learning about risks - managing them, enjoying them, making them work for you. Yet how safe is Outdoor Learning itself?
Probably the finest example of proportional reporting available, here we have the numbers and arguments in one easily understood page. The only thing left to ponder is whether, if your understanding of risk in Outdoor Learning is very far from these facts, how well your understanding of other things is also at variance to truth.
By Joe Lepper Children & Young People Now 26 May 2009
Councils are ignoring the so called "compensation culture" and investing in more adventurous play equipment as part of the £235m England wide revamp of play facilities.
