<p>Foreign Educational Trips</p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 1:32 pm on 28 September 2016.

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Photo of Julie Morgan Julie Morgan Labour 1:32, 28 September 2016

In Whitchurch, we’ve got a company called Schools Into Europe, and I’ve been told by the director there that there has been a drop-off in the number of schools undertaking trips abroad, which he does think is partly due to the confusion over travel safety guidance, and schools adopting their own ad hoc rules as to whether it’s safe to travel or not. So, following up to her answer to the previous question, could she ensure that there is more clarification to schools, and to local authorities, that the definitive guidelines are the Foreign Office guidelines, rather than having individual guidelines, which does sometimes make a bit of a mishmash, really, of guidance, and maybe is turning schools off undertaking what we know are very valuable trips?