Clause 2 - Statements of Inherent Risk
Promotion of Volunteering Bill
11:00 am
Ms Fiona Mactaggart (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Race Equality, Community Policy and Civil Renewal), Home Office; Slough, Labour)
I understand that. The Bill would not cover school activities undertaken in
school time by teachers. I have discussed that extensively with the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, who shares the desire of everyone in the Room to ensure that schoolchildren have opportunities to take risks and be adventurous while they are at school and beyond the usual curriculum. He believes that that is an important part of learning. The hon. Gentleman may remember the speech that the Secretary of State made to, I believe, the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, in which he referred to the importance of that. So the Government are seized of the need to encourage that.