Leisure Safety : Safety & Risk Education
Safety and risk education in leisure safety is about providing children with the skills to be able to asses risk in their daily lives and apply it to keep themselves safe. Too often we see a lack of judgement or an ignorance or disregard of water safety in cases such as drownings, and this is the case right through from childhood to adulthood. Safety and risk education in childhood both assists in keeping a child safe while they are growing up and also helps to prepare for adulthood through equipping them with important life-skills.
RoSPA promotes the idea of 'as safe as necessary, not as safe as possible' and places an emphasis on equipping people with the skills to ensure informed choices of behaviour. It is important that society becomes risk aware, not risk averse, and this begins with safety and risk education in schools.
RoSPA's Safety and Risk Education [Safety & Risk Education] department supports those who work with children and young people to promote safety.
National Child Safety Education Coalition Established
The Child Safety Education Coalition (CSEC) has been established by RoSPA in partnership with the National Children’s Bureau (NCB) to promote the provision of high-quality practical safety education in England.
LASER: Learning About Safety by Experiencing Risk
Learning About Safety by Experiencing Risk (LASER) is a powerful interactive approach to safety education that takes place outside the classroom. Its purpose is to educate and enable children so that they can begin to take some care of themselves and others in their immediate community. LASER schemes do this by providing children with opportunities to learn about and practice personal life skills, encouraging them to recognise and deal with the challenges and opportunities they might encounter throughout life, including in the home, when travelling or doing leisure activities.
Related links:
RoSPA's vision for safety and risk education [Safety Education]
10 Principles for effective safety education [Safety Education]
Water and Leisure Safety Fact Sheets
Drowning Statistics
Safety and Risk Education in the press:
Plan to cut school trip red tape welcomed by RoSPA
More schemes needed to help children experience risk
Children must play in the wild
Better water safety education to cut drowning
Call for better swimming and water safety education
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