On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:13:40 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >If you're referring to the age limit that we now apply on WRG Canal Camps and >most other work parties, it was partly down to our insurers being unwilling to >cover children on what are basically building site type activities (that's why >we haven't allowed anyone under 16 for a long time), but also the extent to >which our leaders (all of whom are volunteers themselves, usually with no >formal training or qualification in working with youngsters) are 'in loco >parentis' as regards anyone in their care who is under 18.
According to our local paper, the Cathedral Camps people have had to shut down completely as the amount of work they could get insurance to do was so limited that there was nothing left worthwhile. -- On-line canal route planner: http://www.canalplan.org.uk (Waterways World site of the month, April 2001) My Reply-To address *is* valid, though may not remain so for ever. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
