While it is important for children to have fulfilling and life building educational experiences, educational trips are responsible for more injuries to children than accidents in classrooms and playgrounds combined.
Most activities that take place on school trips are designed to be exciting and thrilling to children. Naturally these activities involve an element of risk. It is important that teachers and those responsible for organising and supervising school trips conduct proper risk assessments for trips out of school.
Accidents such as the Lyme rigis canoeing disaster of 1993 which claimed the lives of four teenagers should serve as an important lesson for us to make sure that we carry out proper risk assessments and take steps to ensure the safety of our children while developing them on school trips.
Sensible precautions should be taken as there is always a risk involved on school trips. Simple precautions such as briefing children on the risks involved in a particular activity and adequately supervising the activity will go a long way to reduce the danger of
injury to children. A child dying in an accident on a school trip is tragic.
The World Health organisation (WHO) estimated that in 2005, 250 children died as a result of accident injuries.
Unlike adults,
injury to a child can have long lasting impact on all her life. It may affect the child’s development, relationships, learning and play. It is a very heavy burden on you and the child especially if the injuries are serious.
If your child has suffered injuries in an accident on a school trip, she may be entitled to claim compensation for her injuries.
Because children needs are different from the needs of adults, their claims require specialist expertise. You will need the help of a specialist children personal injury lawyer to assist you make a
claim for your child’s injury.
Balinda & Co have many years experience and have helped a lot of children who have suffered
injuries in accidents on school trips to get compensation.
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