Q&A Allergies and Educational Visits
How confident are you about managing allergies on educational visits? Are you doing all you can to ensure that children and young people with allergies are safe and included in schools trips and residential visits?
In this interactive webinar for EVCs, teachers and school staff involved in managing educational visits, EVOLVE Advice’s Andy Smith and Sarah Knight of The Allergy Team answered questions on allergies and how to support children and young people with allergies when offsite on school trips and visits.
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Join our adviser Andy Smith, and Sarah Knight, Founder of The Allergy Team, for this interactive online Q&A webinar.
When? 10 September 2024 . 11am
Where? Online via zoom
Who is it for? EVCs, school leaders and all those responsible for educational visits in schools.
What is it all about? From risk assessments and communicating with parents, to liaising with your venue and managing medication, this Q&A will support you to plan and deliver safe and inclusive school trips and residentials. This will be an informal, Q&A session where you can ask questions from our experts to help you plan and deliver inclusive educational visits.
What we'll cover:
Inclusion and the law
Communication with parents/carers/pupils
Specific risk assessment
Staff competence
Providers
Overseas travel
**Plus: YOUR QUESTIONS- bring your own experiences and questions for expert advice from our speakers.
The webinar is free to attend.
About Andy Smith and EVOLVE Advice
As EVOLVE Advice’s Advisory Service Manager, Andy oversees EVOLVE Advice’s team of advisers and trainers. He is committed to supporting our clients to give young people access to high quality, well managed opportunities that are developmental and engage young people in learning to manage risk whilst having fun. Find out more about Andy’s background and experience, here.
EVOLVE Advice provides educational visits advice, support and training to over 3,000 schools, Trusts and Local Authorities in the UK and overseas. Its highly experienced Educational Visits Advisers support schools in giving their students memorable, enjoyable and safe experiences whilst developing their life long skills.
EVOLVE Advice manages The EVC Register, a national register of Educational Visit Coordinators.
About Sarah Knight and The Allergy Team
Sarah Knight is the mother of two boys with severe food allergies. After 20 years as a senior television producer, she left her job to set up The Allergy Team to support families living with food allergy and to provide training and education about allergies for schools.
Backed by the country’s leading experts, The Allergy Team provides practical solutions to help schools reduce risk and improve the safety and wellbeing of pupils with the condition. You can find out more at theallergyteam.com/schools.
The Allergy Team manages the Schools Allergy Register, a list of schools who have adopted the Schools Allergy Code and undergone assessment by The Allergy Team.