In 2011 education secretary Michael Gove told schools and local authorities to scrap “unnecessary paperwork” and the Department for Education shrank its 150 pages of guidance to eight. Mr Gove said it would mean a “more common sense approach to health and safety”.
Although most teachers welcomed the change, they say it has since made little or no difference to the frequency of school trips as workload and budget constraints – in both authorities and families – have offset any potential advantage.
Marianne Cutler, director of curriculum innovation at the Association for Science Education (ASE), said higher teacher attrition rates and an increasing focus on exams and results were making the climate for such trips harder.
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