Press Release

STAYING SAFE ACTION PLAN

5 February 2008

Commenting on the Government’s guidelines for school trips, Steve Sinnott, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, Europe’s largest teaching union said;

“I welcome the publication of the Staying Safe Action Plan. The NUT has never called for teachers to boycott external activities. Nevertheless there has been a ripple of anxiety which has run through the profession when there has been a rare accident involving a pupil on a school trip.

“I look now to the plan to provide the basis for creating an entitlement for all children and young people to outdoor activities, and to provide the necessary protection to teachers when organising school trips”.