Playing it too safe?
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Does school's health and safety culture wrap pupils in cotton-wool? Is an unwillingness to expose children to risk turning out adults lacking the entrepreneurial skills to manage risk and danger and to cope with failure? The Big Debate, chaired by Krishnan Guru-Murthy, examines the arguments about safety both inside and outside school. There are growing calls from business leaders and child welfare experts that children should be exposed to more risk to help them cope with the realities of the modern world. But an increase in the levels of risk that children face is statistically certain to lead to more failures, accidents and even deaths, should schools relax their rigorous approaches to health and safety? Have schools got the balance right?Filmed in front of a live studio audience of teachers, experts, parents and pupils, the programme features an expert panel including former Dragon's Den star and founder of Yo Sushi, Simon Woodroffe, and Mick Brookes, NAHT General Secretary.
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42 min
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Date of Publication
2009
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Alexander Street
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