Activities Outside of School: Contingency Arrangements
TDA 3.29 TASK 1 / 1.4
Charlotte Hammond CACHE PIN: 30317564
Explain the contingency arrangements appropriate to the issues that may arise when children and young people are on journeys, visits and activities outside of the setting.
When planning on taking children or young people out of the school premises on a trip or outing, no matter the size of the group the sheer importance of doing a risk assessment in inevitable, this can identify if a trip should go ahead or not given the dangers surrounding the trip. By doing this you can look into the trip in depth and if there are to be any accidents on the trip what can you put in place to either prevent them from happening, or how to deal with such an incident if it was to happen. In my setting once a risk assessment has been completed and we acknowledge the risks we set in place procedures for what to do if they occur. These would be things like:
If an accident was to occur we must always have a first aid kit, and a trained first aider with us at all times whether it be on the transport or out in the open, so that the child can be treated and checked over to make sure it is safe for that child to carry on with the rest of the outing, if it was a major accident making sure first and foremost we make arrangements for that child to be sent to a hospital, with the consent of their parent/guardian, we must also have an emergency contact number for them to let them know what is happening with their child.
Missing Person(s) It is crucial that after every large movement made within the group that all children are head counted to make sure there is the correct amount of pupils at all times. In my setting if the whole group is to be sectioned into separate groups with no less than 2 supervising then all staff must carry some form of communication linked up to all other staff to report back if a member from a different group is to go missing, so that the supervisors of the other
Charlotte Hammond CACHE PIN: 30317564
Explain the contingency arrangements appropriate to the issues that may arise when children and young people are on journeys, visits and activities outside of the setting.
When planning on taking children or young people out of the school premises on a trip or outing, no matter the size of the group the sheer importance of doing a risk assessment in inevitable, this can identify if a trip should go ahead or not given the dangers surrounding the trip. By doing this you can look into the trip in depth and if there are to be any accidents on the trip what can you put in place to either prevent them from happening, or how to deal with such an incident if it was to happen. In my setting once a risk assessment has been completed and we acknowledge the risks we set in place procedures for what to do if they occur. These would be things like:
If an accident was to occur we must always have a first aid kit, and a trained first aider with us at all times whether it be on the transport or out in the open, so that the child can be treated and checked over to make sure it is safe for that child to carry on with the rest of the outing, if it was a major accident making sure first and foremost we make arrangements for that child to be sent to a hospital, with the consent of their parent/guardian, we must also have an emergency contact number for them to let them know what is happening with their child.
Missing Person(s) It is crucial that after every large movement made within the group that all children are head counted to make sure there is the correct amount of pupils at all times. In my setting if the whole group is to be sectioned into separate groups with no less than 2 supervising then all staff must carry some form of communication linked up to all other staff to report back if a member from a different group is to go missing, so that the supervisors of the other