Education Visits Coordinator update workshop

Safety management practices and procedures evolve over time. This course gives EVCs at all schools the opportunity to look into current material in more depth and share good practice with other EVCs.

The issues faced by School EVCs change over time and although EVC training does not formally lapse it is good practice for EVCs to ‘revalidate’ their award by attending update training. Many organisations include a three-year requirement for EVC revalidation.

Course content

This course will address current issues including:

• Topics that will be covered during the course include:

• Safeguarding, incl. issues with a focus on safeguarding pupils on school trips, raised by the EVCs attending the course

• Trips in a climate of heightened security

• Risk assessment

• Appropriate risk management procedures

• Homestays

• Quality badges

• Online approval systems

• Review of contemporary resources from DCFS, HSE, AALA, and other recent publications

• School policy documents

• Learning outcomes from recent incidents

• New guidance information – e.g. BS 8848, ski trips, swimming, exchange visits.

• What the papers say

• National governing bodies

• Inclusion/exclusion of pupils

• Minibuses – and other transport issues

• Manifesto for Learning Outside the Classroom

• Training and monitoring of staff

• Training material for EVCs to use in school

• Outcomes from school inspections

• Underlying benefits of educational visits

• High quality outdoor education

• Scenarios and solutions

A valuable aspect of the day is the opportunity to share good practice with EVCs from similar schools.

Cancellation policy

No refunds on bookings cancelled less than four weeks before the course.

Further information

The number of places on the course is capped at 16 to allow discussion. Feedback from previous courses has been excellent.

This course is run in conjunction with the Independent Schools Adventure Activities Association (ISAAA) and is primarily for independent foundation schools and academies as many local authorities have provision for EVC training for their schools. However, if this is not the case for your school, you are most welcome to attend this course.

By attending this course, delegates will earn 5 CPD points which can be put towards the yearly requirement of 35 CPD points to attain Chartered Geographer status. A certificate of attendance will be given for all delegates.