UK Outdoors Submit a Roadmap For Reopening Educational Visits, Warning That Without Urgent Action Sector Will Be Decimated
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89% of sector revenues come from educational visits; £600m of sector revenue has been lost resulting in 6,000 jobs gone and a further 10,000 jobs at risk
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Government-backed Insurance scheme requested to enable future school bookings
LONDON, Feb. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ UK Outdoors, the industry body for outdoor learning and activities, announces that, in conjunction with the School Travel Sector Stakeholder Group ( STSSG ), it has submitted to Rt Hon Gavin Williamson, Secretary of State, and the Department for Education, a roadmap for the phased restart of domestic educational visits after Easter, over a year after visits were suspended by government guidance in March 2020.