Nothing Ventured...Balancing risks

Posted by Nick Colton on 09/03/2010

The booklet Nothing Ventured...Balancing risks and benefits in the outdoors by Tim Gill is published by the English Outdoor Council and aimed at teachers and other children’s services professionals.

This is an intelligent and timely publication that encourages readers to take a reasonable and proportionate approach to safety and reassures them that a degree of risk, properly managed, is positively desirable in helping young people to learn to manage their own safety. A risk-averse approach is discouraged. Instead, readers are encouraged to balance the risks and the benefits from an activity.

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