Managing Risk in Play Provision: Implementation guide
Managing Risk in Play Provision: Implementation guide Foreword by Baroness Delyth & Morgan and Gerry Sutcliffe MP The huge response to our recent Fair Play consultation shows that children and young people want to play outside. They also want bigger and better play areas with more exciting, varied and challenging equipment and activities […]
No Ceilings to Enterprise and Adventure
The nature of healthy risk taking – enterprise, adventure and ambition go hand in hand: 'No Ceilings for Dominic' From burger van to multimillion pound business… the MD of ceilings and partitions installations company Dancor Group believes that the true entrepreneur is unstoppable. Dominic Goodale, managing director of Hampshire-based Dancor Group, has a vision. He […]
More risk, less health and safety ….
Trust me, we need more risk, less health and safety, says new chief Sir Simon Jenkins, in the library at National Trust headquarters, wants its properties to feel less like museums Valerie Elliott, Countryside Editor [Full story The Times online]
Today’s news – 22.11.08
Today's news – 22.11.08 Newspapers headline restrictive managers and 'safer-than-though' management Yet again entrepreneurial zest is being curbed by do-gooders, the risk-averse and the down-right over-safe brigade. Our healthy risk-taking, inventive, enterprising, evolving, creative, entrepreneurs are being curtailed by the vanilla society. Check our headline articles for the stories below..
No training? A little boy had to die?
No training? And for that a little boy had to die? James Campbell: Thunderer div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited { color:#06c; }
Teach children about risk
Outdoor education drive to teach children about risk By Cathy Wallace Children & Young People Now 5 February 2008 http://www.cypnow.co.uk/News Teachers and youth leaders should prioritise the educational benefits of school trips rather than fear "rare risks" such as terrorist attacks, according to ministers. Launching the government's Staying Safe action plan today, junior children's […]
Discussion of th brave…
Discussion of the brave “Questions and Answers…But how have we got into this dire strait?” Is it really the case that one or two sad events (like Soham) were enough to trigger the consequent legislative panic? Is it really the case that even intelligent (?) lawmakers cannot look dispassionately at the overall facts but are, […]
All Party Parliamentary Group ‘ARISc’
All Party Parliamentary Group 'ARISc' The next meeting of the APPG 'ARISc' is scheduled for 5th November, 2008. Roy Amlot QC will discuss the Compensation Act, 2006. If a report is required, please contact ian@campaignforadventure.org
Campaign for Adventure – Book reviews
Book Reviews: How to live dangerously by Warwick Cairns, Macmillan, London, 2008. ISBN 978-0-230-71221-8. 188 pages. Licensed to hug by Frank Furedi and Jennie Bristow, Civitas, London, 2008. ISBN 978 1 903386 70 5. 64 pages. These are both excellent books, worth reading by all who prize adventure and challenge. Warwick Cairns has collected a […]
Breaking the Rules
From The Times August 18, 2008 We must train people to break the rules Petty bureaucrats are a necessary evil. But we must instruct them in when to use their initiative and make exceptions Libby Purves Lay out the entrails, read omens and auguries, study the heavens, shake your hoary locks like an ancient seer. […]