Supplementary memorandum from Chris Keates,
General Secretary, NASUWT
You have requested figures for the number of
NASUWT members participating in school trips who have experienced
difficulties.
As I sought to explain to the Select Committee,
the Union has a regular number of referrals of cases of teachers
who are subject to investigation as a result of an incident on
a school trip. These statistics are not collated nationally, as
it would simply be impossible to maintain such a database. The
Union only maintains at national level a database of those cases
where we need to engage legal support because of civil or criminal
proceedings. In the last three years NASUWT has done this on 20
occasions and compared with statistics going back further than
that this demonstrates a significant increase since the mid 90s.
This figure of 20 represents only the tip of the iceberg, a point
which has been accepted by the former Secretary of State for Education,
Charles Clarke, hence the work he commissioned between the DfES
and NASUWT, work which is currently ongoing and scheduled to reach
a conclusion around Easter.
20 January 2005
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