Some of the guidance on educational visits

Department for Education and Skills

• Health and Safety of Pupils on Educational Visits: a Good Practice Guide 1988 (reprinted in 2001).
• Health and Safety: Responsibilities and Powers (DfES/0803/2001).
• Standards for LEAs in Overseeing Educational Visits. Part 1 of a 3 - Part Supplement to Health and Safety of Pupils on Educational Visits. (DfES/0564/2002)
• Standards for Adventure. Part 2 of a 3 - Part Supplement to Health and Safety of Pupils on Educational Visits. (DfES/0565/2002)
• A Handbook for Group Leaders. Part 3 of a 3 - Part Supplement to Health and Safety of Pupils on Educational Visits. (DfES/0566/2002)

All of the above documents are available from DfES.

• DfES website

HSE

• Agricultural Information Sheet No 23 'Avoiding ill health at open farms: Advice to teachers'
• Five Steps to Risk Assessment INDG163

• Guidance to the Licensing Authority on the Adventure Activities Licensing Regulations 1996.
• Adventure activities centres: five steps to risk assessment.
• Managing Health and Safety in Swimming Pools 1999.
• The New General Teaching Requirements for Health and Safety 1999, QCA/HSE.
• Sector Information Minute SIM 7/2002/27 'School Visits and Trips' advises HSE Inspectors on responsibilities for ensuring safety during school trips (including overseas visits)

Others

• Information about adventure activity providers covered by the Adventure Activities Licensing Scheme
• The British Activity Holiday Association
• Amateur Swimming Association
• The Royal Lifesaving Society UK.
• Safe and Responsible Expeditions and Guidelines for Youth Expeditions.
  Young Explorers' Trust.
• The Royal Geographical Society Expedition Advisory Centre provides advice, information and training to anyone planning an overseas expedition
• The Duke of Edinburgh's Award has its own clear structure, procedures and guidelines

• Preparing Young People for a Safer Life (Cheshire County Council and Institute of Occupational Safety and Health). The document contains a model risk assessment for a sponsored walk.
• Adventure Activities Industry Advisory Committee (AAIAC): Statement of Risk Perception in Adventure and Outdoor Activities.
• Safety on School Trips: A Teachers and the Law Booklet - The Professional Association of Teachers. Revised edition 2002
• Educational Visits - NASUWT 2001
• Safe Supervision for Teaching and Coaching Swimming. Amateur Swimming Association and other. 2nd edition 2001
• The Wales Tourist Board, the Scottish Tourist Board and the British Activity Holiday Association provide voluntary inspection schemes to complement licensing for providers of activities that are out of scope of licensing.

Sports governing bodies produce their own guidance, which provide specific safety tips relevant to individual activities.