Communities Benefit from Court Decisions
Roy Amlot QC, past Chair, The Bar Council, addressed members on “Changes in Law of Compensation in Sport, Play, Education, Recreation and Communities”. “Teachers, sports instructors and workers with our children and young people, including parents, are at the heart of UK society and all our futures. Freedom to explore, to experience and to […]
BBC Risk Article
In today's "cotton-wool culture", children, it's often claimed, are rarely left to learn from life's hard knocks. Instead, adults tend to adopt a safety-first approach, even if the risk amounts to little more than a grazed knee http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7869540.stm
CSEC – LASER (Learning About Safety by Experiencing Risk)
RoSPA February 9, 2009 NATIONAL CHILD SAFETY EDUCATION COALITION ESTABLISHED – CSEC – LASER (Learning About Safety by Experiencing Risk)Equipping children and young people with the skills to manage their exposure to danger is the aim of a new national coalition. The coalition will also recognise that bumps, scrapes and disappointments are part of growing […]
Parliamentary group to review compensation
Parliamentary group to review compensation Westminster – All party group on Adventure and Risk, will receive an update on the place of compensation in UK courts. The address will be provided by Roy Amlot, QC and supported by the Campaign for Adventure. The meeting will take place on Wednesday 11th February, in Westminster Palace with […]
Entrepeneurs – born or made
Entrepreneurs – born or made? Research shows risky decision-making essential to entrepreneurialism Whether someone will become the next Richard Branson, Steve Jobs or Henry Ford may be down to whether they make risky decisions, scientists at the University of Cambridge have concluded. The article, published today in the journal Nature, asserts that entrepreneurs are riskier […]
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?
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