Personal injury solicitors can help out after activity holiday disasters
It is not possible to keep an eye on our children 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and we often entrust their care to others, especially when the summer holidays come around and we (unfortunately) can't take 6 weeks off from work to look after them. There is a difficult choice to make: should we pack the kids off on adventure holidays with people we have never met and risk having to contact a personal injury solicitor at the end of it all or should we keep them close by and end up pulling our own hair out?
Throughout the UK there are holiday clubs and activity camps that you can send your kids to while you do your nine till five but we don't really know what fate awaits them. Approximately 3 million children take part in adventure activities every year and an estimated 178,000 nonfatal sporting accidents happen to 5 to 14-yearolds every year. However, children under the age of 19 are more likely to sustain personal injury or fatality in a car accident on the way to an adventure holiday than they are on the holiday itself.
The Children, Schools and Families Secretary has even expressed his encouragement for children to be released into the great outdoors, "If children don't climb trees, it's hard for them to learn about risk and the safe way to do itkids need to learn"
A major issue is that those people who are responsible for our children when we are not around are becoming wary of facing the possibility of having a personal injury compensation claim made against them. Activities centres have to ensure that they are insured for several million to make sure that they can cover any run-ins with personal injury solicitors and many teachers are opting out of field trips because they don't want to find themselves vulnerable to accusations of negligence.
YouClaim advise that parents carry out thorough checks of holiday companies and activity centres in advance. It is necessary for all centres who offer outdoor activities such as climbing and canoeing to obtain a licence from the Adventure Activities Licensing Activity authority (AALA).
Activity centres that specialise in specific types of activity may also be regulated under specialist bodies. For example, sailing centres such as Cobnor Activities Centre www.cobnor.com undergoes regular assessments by the Royal Yachting Association www.rya.org.uk.
You may also wish to check on the Health and Safety Executive's website www.hse.gov.uk to see if the activity centre you are considering sending your child to has any previous breaches. While such checks can't guarantee that no harm will come to your little angels they can, however, make sure that you are not sending them somewhere posing more risks than necessary.
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