Safe practices and policies

  • Detailed risk assessments for every activity and location
  • Leaders trained in all policies and given in written form
  • Compliant with UK LOtC Quality Badge and BS8848
  • Compliant with Local Authority guidelines
  • Every expedition signed off individually
  • Ratio of adult to Challenger does not exceed 1:8
  • Crisis Response plan and trained team
  • Detailed externally audited annual review of all Global Safety Management Systems©
  • Highly refined protocols and procedures, established over 25 years that deal with every eventually teams may find themselves in whilst on expedition
  • Full compliance with DfES Practical Guide Health & Safety of Pupils on Educational Visits
  • UK activities licensed by Adventure Activities Licensing Regulations 1996
  • Our Air Travel Organiser’s Licence (ATOL) number 2844 and Commission for Aviation Regulation licence number 232 provide further protection for all participants
  • Industry best practice relating to National Governing Body (NGB) recommendations
 Learning Outside the Classroom Quality Badge

World Challenge holds the Learning Outside the Classroom (LOtC) Quality Badge.

Learning Outside the Classroom

The badge is nationally recognised and designed to bring together all existing safety and quality badges into one easily identifiable mark of quality.

The Learning Outside the Classroom Quality Badge is awarded to organisations such as World Challenge which have been externally assessed as providing high quality learning outside the classroom and meet six quality indicators.
  1. a process to assist users to plan the learning experience;
  2. accurate information about its offer;
  3. activities, experience or resources which meet learner needs;
  4. reviews the experience and acts on feedback;
  5. meets the needs of the users; and
  6. safety management systems to manage risk effectively.
Compliant with British Standard 8848
YET  Ventures provided by World Challenge Expeditions Limited conform to BS8848 (Specification for the provision of visits, fieldwork, expeditions and adventurous activities outside the United Kingdom).

Independently assessed and declared by the Young Explorers’ Trust on the basis of Operating Procedures and Safety Management Systems evidenced on 26th April 2008 and subjected to a further interim review on 16th April 2009. This declaration is valid until 26th April 2011, following a further interim review in 2010.

World Challenge is also one of the first providers to apply to be assessed for the new Learning Outside the Classroom Quality Badge. Initial awards are due by the end of 2009.

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