Keeping children safe – including outdoors and on outings
The Care Inspectorate have described how practitioners have been exploring ways of incorporating SIMOA the elephant into their learning about safety. They have published a bitesize session to be used alongside our SIMOA keeping children safe practice notes. You can watch this bitesize here.
Game-changing new international benchmark gives a green light to more adventurous play
Play Scotland (10 July 2023) share the good news about this new benchmark that takes a ‘benefit-risk’ approach to safety. This promotes a balanced approach to safety in playgrounds and other leisure facilities, and the benefits of allowing a degree of risk and challenge. Read more here.
Adventure activities – incidents, accidents and near misses
The Forest School Association have shared this IOL webpage on Adventure Activities (complied by the Adventure Activities Licensing Authority). This links to reports about incidents, accidents and near misses that have happened in adventure activities or similar, closely related activities.
Planning a school group off-site visit? The Going Out There toolkit is now updated!
The Going Out There (GOT) Toolkit has now gone live. The main change is to the format of the Risk Assessment templates and worked examples. The Toolkits supplement the advice in the main GOT document and provide everything required to plan and organise all categories of visits. This includes planning [...]
Be tick aware!
If you are planning on being outside in natural spaces for outdoor learning and play, or for any other reason, you need to be tick aware. Check out tick guidance in this Public Health Scotland news report (4 April 2023) and practical advice from NHS Inform, so you can continue [...]
Guidance: keeping young children safe on trips and outings
The Care Inspectorate have developed a practice note to support ELC staff to keep children safe on trips and outings while ensuring they still have opportunities to be curious and develop their learning. See Keeping children safe: supporting trips and outings in early learning and childcare (ELC)
Lyme Disease – be aware!
This campaign, launched by the Scottish Government, aims to raise awareness of tick bites and the symptoms of Lyme disease. This encourages people to take precautions when spending time outdoors this summer. A stakeholder toolkit containing key messages, top tips, social media assets and posts, and a poster which can [...]
Water Safety Open Day 25 July
Water Safety Scotland is hosting this open day at the Helix/Kelpies on 25 July at 11am to 3pm. The event, which is in support of World Drowning Prevention Day, will have information stands, demonstrations and activities for adults, children and young people. The event seeks to increase the public’s knowledge [...]
