Outdoor Education Advisers' Panel

The ERCA UK conference is to be on the 1st and 2nd
December 2010 and will take place at Liddington - PGL’s
newest centre near Swindon.

It will run from 1pm on the first day until 1pm on the second. It includes
world experts in their respective fields and a highly entertaining key
note speaker.

For detailed information and ticket
purchase under: www.erca.co.uk/events/uk2010conference

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House of Commons Education Committee Transforming Education Outside the Classroom: Responses from the Government and Ofsted to the Sixth Report of the Children, Schools and Families Committee, More...

Following the recent revisions to the UK resuscitation guidelines [1]. HSE are now informing all HSE approved training providers involved in the deliver of first aid at work, emergency first aid at work, offshore first aid or offshore medic training the timetable by which they should be compliant with the changes to UK Resuscitation protocols.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/firstaid/resuscitation-guidelines.htm

Lectures entitled Skills for the Winter Mountains More...

Teachers are being urged to organise more school trips showing students local heritage sites to stimulate their learning.
Health and safety concerns, alongside the cost and the impact on school timetables contribute to the decline

http://www.teachers.tv/news/74141

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We believe that every child should be entitled to regular contact with the natural environment. More...

A quick reminder that Live 'n' Deadly launches this weekend at 0900-1000 on BBC Two and CBBC (national differences may apply). More...

2010 Photo Competition launched

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Monday, 28 June 2010

Play England has today announced a proposed reorganisation in the light of the imminent reduction in the value of its contracts with the Department for Education for 2010-11 and the changing policy context for the play agenda under the coalition government. More...

A body recovered from a Cumbrian lake was that of a missing canoeist, police have confirmed.

Chad Salisbury, 18, from Leyland in Lancashire, failed to surface after overturning on Ullswater on Saturday afternoon.

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