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Safety Education Organisations

LASER

LASER logoLearning About Safety by Experiencing Risk (LASER) is a powerful interactive approach to safety education which provides opportunities for school children and other members of the community to learn about safety and the prevention of unintentional injury in realistic settings. Schemes focus primarily on Home, Travel, Leisure and Personal Safety. There are some 200 LASER schemes and affiliated schemes operating in the UK.

Injury Minimization Programme for Schools

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The Injury Minimization Programme for Schools (I.M.P.S.) is a health education programme for year 6 children that provides them with the knowledge and skills to minimise injury, provide basic life support and take safer risks.

 

 

 

Riskwatch

RiskWatch is an avoidable injury awareness program. The aims of the program are to make children more aware of the dangerous situations and equip them with life skills that can help to keep them safe.

Safety Centre Alliance

Safety Centre AllianceAlso referred to as ‘Lifeskills Centres’, Safety Centres are exciting and realistic indoor townscapes that include life-like scenarios such as a street scene, road crossing, car, water scene, railway, house, shop and much more. These scenarios enable Centres to deliver practical, interactive, scenario-based education to children and adults in safety, citizenship and life skills. The Safety Centre Alliance exists to facilitate support, networking and development between permanent interactive safety centres in the UK, to support those wishing to set up new centres, and to promote and represent safety centres to relevant bodies and more widely to the media. This site contains a directory of member safety centres across the UK.

Child Accident Prevention Trust (CAPT)

CAPT logoThe Child Accident Prevention Trust is the UK’s leading charity working to reduce the number of children and young people killed, disabled or seriously injured in accidents. They have a wide variety of information and resources available through their website, including information about how to get involved with ‘Child Safety Week’ which runs every year. CAPT is also running ‘Making the Link’ – a project aimed at building capacity for effective partnership working on child accident prevention, which is open to anyone working to reduce injury and death to children and young people in England.

Children's Safety Education Foundation (CSEF)

CSEF is a national charity with a track record of delivering safety educational programmes to children across the UK covering issues such as bullying, drug and alcohol abuse, using the internet, fire and home safety. The charity’s purpose is to reduce the number of child victims through the provision of interactive preventative safety education and its goal is to ensure that it is accessible by every child in the UK. This site contains a variety of information and resources for child safety education, including a wide range of educational materials.

St John Ambulance

St John logoSt John Ambulance volunteers are well known for the tens of thousands of hours they spend each year ensuring public events are safe. They are also the leading first aid training provider in the UK and the third largest youth organisation. This site contains information and advice about first aid, training and volunteering.

Outcomes UK

Outcomes UK offer a range of consultancy, interim management, training, coaching and support services in a variety of relevant areas. They also deliver a range of award winning programmes for children and young people, complementary to the main school offering, including bikeability and electrical safety.back to top

 

Safety Education Resources

StayWise

StayWise logoStayWise collates existing educational resources from emergency services and other agencies from around the country and makes them available through their website. Teachers can browse their libraries and schemes of work and use the activities and resources. Emergency service personnel can also see what teachers are doing and within their section discover how they can play their part in these lessons too.

 

Crucial Crew

Interactive safety game and teaching resources looking at a range of safety topics.

DirectGovKids

This site contains an interactive town to explore with lots of things to learn about along the way. If you click on the hospital, and then the book on the desk, it will take you to a variety of safety activities and learning resources including a house of hazards and a fire station.

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Outdoor Education

The Council for Learning Outside the Classroom (CLOtC)

CLOtC logoThe Council for Learning Outside the Classroom (CLOtC) believe that every young person should experience the world beyond the classroom as an essential part of learning and personal development, whatever their age, ability or circumstances. Their website contains a wealth of guidance, information and resources to encourage more learning outside the classroom (LOTC) and includes details of the LOtC Quality Badge. The LOtC Quality Badge is awarded to providers who are offering good quality LOtC experiences and are managing risk effectively.

English Outdoor Council

The English Outdoor Council is an umbrella body for organisations involved in the provision of outdoor education, recreation and development training. Its work involves promoting the benefits of outdoor experiences, encouraging high quality, sustainable provision, increasing opportunities for participation in adventurous activities and experiences outdoors, and lobbying policy makers to achieve this. They have produced some very interesting publications which promote the importance of experiencing risk in order to be able to learn to assess risk, including Nothing Ventured - balancing risks and benefits in the outdoors by Tim Gill.

Wild About Plants

The Wild About Plants project, run by charity Plantlife, aims to encourage enjoyment and learning in the outdoors. Their website contains a variety of activity ideas and information, including the Bee Scene education pack which looks at involving the children in planning, risk assessing and rule setting for an expedition to a local greenspace.

Farming and Countryside Education (FACE)

FACE promotes educational work associated with food, farming and the countryside. They are currently working with CSEC to pilot an approach to using farm visits to help children develop skills to prevent unintended injuries to themselves and others, not just on farms but elsewhere in the countryside and in life generally.

The Outdoor Education Advisers Panel

The Outdoor Education Advisers Panel website is a useful portal for finding out more, looking at training opportunities and getting advice. You can also find contact details for your Local Authority Outdoor Education Adviser.

Forest Schools

Forest Schools exist throughout Britain and are nurseries and schools which provide children and young people with a regular experience of learning in woodland, giving them the opportunity to learn about the natural environment, how to assess and manage risks and to use their own initiative to solve problems and co-operate with others.

John Muir Award

The John Muir Award is an environmental award scheme focused on wild places. It encourages awareness and responsibility for the natural environment, in a spirit of fun, adventure and exploration.

Institute for Outdoor Learning

The Institute for Outdoor Learning encourages outdoor learning by developing quality, safety, and opportunity to experience outdoor activity provision, and by supporting and enhancing the good practice of those who work in the outdoors.

Natural England

Natural England is the government’s advisor on the natural environment. They provide practical advice, grounded in science, on how best to safeguard England’s natural wealth for the benefit of everyone. Their website contains information about where and how you can enjoy the countryside and the Countryside Code.

 

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Young People - Safety in the Workplace

The British Safety Council

The British Safety Council is one of the world’s leading health and safety organisations. Their mission is to keep people healthy and safe at work. They are running the 'Speak Up Stay Safe' campaign which helps to enable young people to have a voice over safety concerns in their workplace.

Wiseup2work

Wiseup2work has been designed to help teenagers learn about the risks they face in the workplace, and how to handle them. Through this site you can access the Workplace Hazard Awareness Course which is a free training programme for teenagers, designed to get students ready for work experience and their first proper jobs.

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Relevant Wider Organisations

Go4it

Go4it is a leading national recognised awards process for schools in the UK demonstrating creativity, innovation and an adventure for learning with a positive attitude towards risk. Designed by HTI, Go4it helps schools inspire and challenge students in order to further improve their life chances.

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)

RoSPA logoRoSPA is a registered charity which provides information, advice, resources and training, to promote safety and the prevention of accidents in all areas of life - at work, in the home, on the roads, in schools, at leisure, and on (or near) water. This website contains a variety of information and resources, including advice, educational materials and the Safe at Home safety equipment scheme.

Every Child Matters

Every Child Matters is a shared programme of change to improve outcomes for all children and young people. It takes forward the Government's vision of radical reform for children, young people and families.

Healthy Schools

Healthy Schools is an exciting long-term initiative for schools that promotes the link between good health, behaviour and achievement.

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Publications and articles

Teachers TV

Click here to see a selection of interesting programmes which have been created for Teachers TV looking at the issues of risk and safety. These include

Please note, as this content is external, the opinions given do not necessarily reflect those of CSEC.

The Teachers TV Outdoor Learning page also contains a range of inspiring ideas for outdoor lessons and school trips to boost learning for both primary and secondary levels.

Teachernet Online Publications for Schools

Teachernet have a number of interesting publications from the former DCSF and other agencies available for download or posted free of charge via the teachernet website, including

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