Outdoor Education Advisers' Panel

Comment at Safe schools conference

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"A painfully good example of an excessive risk-averse decision made with the best of intentions" was how Work and Pensions Minister Lord Hunt of Kings Heath described the decision by a head teacher who required children to wear goggles when playing conkers.