November sees the sell-out conference of professionals in the outdoors..... 

Creating high value outdoor learning solutions, essential CPD for leaders, educators and managers

7^th to 9^th November 2018
Yarnfield Park Training & Conference Centre, Staffordshire

https://www.outdoor-learning-conference.org/ 

Looking back - to 2004. Have we moved?

Mr Brazier has a clear vision for his legislation. It is to make it easier for people to volunteer to help with activities such as school trips and sporting events. People are put off volunteering, he suggests, because of the increasing fear of litigation and frustration with the associated red tape.

Julian Brazier, briefly a shadow minister under Iain Duncan Smith, and Frank Dobson, equally briefly his party’s London mayoral candidate, came together to steer this Bill through to the next stage of its parliamentary process. The Promotion of Volunteering Bill has even gained the tacit support of the government.

Echoing the sentiments in Julian Brazier’s Bill he claimed that it has led to playgrounds being fenced off, hanging baskets being taken down as health hazards, and teachers being advised no longer to supervise school outings. Expanding his theme, he argued that money was being taken away from schools and hospitals to pay for lawyers and claims managers.