Education Visits Advice Service update
Since 1st September 2017, Warwickshire County Council (WCC) and Warwickshire Education Services (WES) no longer offer support in terms of an Educational Visits Advice Service to:
- Foundation schools,
- Voluntary Aided schools,
- Foundation Trust schools,
- Academies,
- Free schools,
- Independent schools and
- Voluntary youth organisations.
These are schools where WCC is no longer the employer. The employers of these schools (academy trusts, archdiocese, board of governors etc) have full responsibility, under Health & Safety Legislation, for the safety and welfare of their employees and pupils which includes when they are engaged in outdoor visits, adventure activities, school trips etc. Therefore they should ensure that they have a robust system in place to ensure such activities are compliant with best practice guidance, legislation etc.
Where WCC is still the employer (in LA maintained schools) WCC has chosen to use the services of 'EES For Schools' to provide this service. Therefore if your school is still 'WCC maintained' (other than VA maintained) the education visits advice service is still provided to you at no cost and you will have received some communications from 'EES for Schools' outlining their service to you.
Whilst WCC is not able to recommend providers, clearly we believe that 'EES For Schools' provides a service that meets our needs, however there are numerous other providers able to deliver this service to schools such as 'Plumsun' and 'nwilevol.co.uk'.
If you wish to speak to a representative from 'EES For Schools' then please contact norberto.fusi@eesforschools.org directly.