Publication - Advice and guidance
Out to Play - creating outdoor play experiences for children: practical guidance
Guidance and advice for early learning and childcare settings and practitioners on how to access outdoor spaces to create safe, nurturing and inspiring outdoor learning experiences.
Appendix 4
Risk/benefit assessment – additional useful links
The Health and Safety Executive website includes:
- A specific HSE education website http://www.hse.gov.uk/services/education/
- Myth of the Month section which dispels assumptions made http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/
- Five Steps to Risk Assessment – www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg163.pdf
- A link to the paper Outdoor Learning Activities and School Trips and Outdoor Learning Activities:Tackling the health and safety myths http://www.hse.gov.uk/services/education/school-trips.pdf
- Children's Play and Leisure: Promoting a Balanced Approach. HSE advice about health and safety and working with children. http://www.hse.gov.uk/entertainment/childs-play-statement.htm
- Easy to follow leaflets for parents in the Child Accident Prevention Trust www.capt.org.uk
- A book examining some key issues, advocating resilience and striking a balance between protecting children from genuine threats and giving them rich, challenging opportunities. Gill, T., (2007) No Fear: Growing up in a risk averse society ISBN 978-1-903080-08-5 Free to download: https://timrgill.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/no-fear-19-12-07.pdf
- Useful reading for early years staff by Gill, T. http://www.englishoutdoorcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/Nothing-Ventured.pdf
- Jennie Lindon (2003) Too safe for their own good? ISBN 1-900990-97-0
- Practical advice on different aspects of risky play. http://www.londonplay.org.uk/
- Play Scotland (2012) Managing Risk in Play Provision – Implementation Guide The process of risk-benefit assessment and a balanced approach to children's play spaces. http://www.playscotland.org/wp-content/uploads/Managing-Risk-in-Play-Provision-implementation-guide-2nd-edition-2.pdf
- Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents for sensible advice about health and safety. http://www.rospa.com/
- Education Scotland resource to support managing risk in outdoor learning. https://education.gov.scot/improvement/learning-resources/Managing%20Risk%20in%20Outdoor%20Learning
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