Young Report Update
Health and Safety laws are misinterpreted when designing play areas, making them "uninspiring play spaces that do not enable children to experience risk". Lord Young wants to replace the current system of risk assessment with one of "risk-benefit assessment", whereby the positive impacts of adventurous play equipment are weighed up against potential risks. The […]
No limits
A New Zealand mountaineer who lost both legs in a climbing accident has become the first double amputee to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Mark Inglis, 47, phoned to say he had reached the top of the world's highest peak on Monday and had returned to base Camp 4, his wife Anne told reporters. […]
Young Report – Effects
Government to overhaul health and safety to ensure children's play areas are more exciting. The move is among the recommendations made in Lord Young's review of health and safety regulations and Britain's 'compensation culture'. The report says that too often health and safety laws are misinterpreted when designing play areas, making them "uninspiring play […]
Lord Young Report [2]
"People who seek to do good in our society should not fear litigation as a result of their actions." – Lord Young Full Lord Young Report: http://www.number10.gov.uk/news/latest-news/2010/10/lord-young-report-55605 Report warns that a "particularly pernicious" climate of fear has developed in which well-meaning members of the public are put off from organizing voluntary activities for fear of […]
In favour of entrepreneurial spirit
“We need to swing the balance back in favour of entrepreneurial spirit." "We want to make sure that charities spend more time on their valuable work to support our communities" says Minister for Business and Enterprise, Mark Prisk The Big Society De-regulation Taskforce was announced today by Business Minister Mark Prisk and Civil Society Minister […]
Possibility, adventure thresholds and new horizons
Ian Lewis, of Campaign for Adventure – Risk and Enterprise in Society, and clerk of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Adventure and Recreation in Society, put up a valiant effort to counter this state of affairs. He talked enthusiastically about testing young people’s ‘adventure thresholds’, setting ‘new horizons’, and berated us to ‘change our […]
Lord Young Report
Campaign for Adventure eagerly awaits the Young Report – Ian Lewis Excessive regulation, litigiousness and fear of being sued are constraints on Big Society aspirations. These blocks to enterprise and aspiration, not to mention goodwill, prevent private citizens, educators, health-workers, managers, and all private companies and public services, from fulfilling their potential for our society. […]
Campaign for Adventure -PM announces review of health and safety laws
PM announces review of health and safety laws David Cameron has announced the appointment of the Rt Hon Lord Young of Graffham as Adviser to the Prime Minister on health and safety law and practice. Lord Young will undertake a Whitehall-wide review of the operation of health and safety laws and the growth of the compensation […]
Campaign for Adventure – curb the health and safety paranoia
Dangerous Book for Boys culture needed in schools, says Gove Schools should adopt a "Dangerous Book for Boys" culture to curb the health and safety paranoia, the Education Secretary has said. By Tom Whitehead , Home Affairs Editor Julian Brazier, chairman of the all-part group for recreation in society, which has been campaigning to […]
Gareth Malone’s Extraordinary School For Boys
Many boys are not fulfilling their potential at school and, like others across Britain, lagged behind their female peers in literacy. The result is Gareth Malone's Extraordinary School For Boys – a three-part series for BBC Two that forms part of the channel's School Season (a range of programming encompassing documentary, drama and debate, focusing […]