Is it ok to ask children to be labelled with their full name on day trip.

How old are the children?

Any adult can contact the main leader if necessary.

The police recommend the DC has a phone number but not their name due to safeguarding.

Not my point
The main adult supervising will have medical forms.
A group may well get split up.
Not every adult will know every medical detail or the full names. It's very easy to get crossed wires when there are 3 Tom's and 4 amelias

You are not being OTT or paranoid.
This is really NOT good safeguarding and could put a child at risk

Im a parent, teacher, foster carer and youth group worker and this would be a major concern in all those areas. Children should not be identifiable by strangers , in a lost child case they could read the name and tge do the 'Come on Billy your mam/teacher/leader told me to get you', depending on age of child they may very easily believe them.

If the trip is in public, no, but if in an enclosed private area ie an event in a hall, then possibly first names so helpers can call/organise them more easily.

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I’ve read advice here to put a card with my mobile number into DD’s pocket or rucksack so used to do this for her school trips.

The adults supervising will have a medical form filled out. They will know if Freddie is diabetic or has an allergy.

I can see a logic to first name and maybe initial if they have 2 children with the same name.
On a trip they might have parent helpers or teachers who don't know all the kids and some kids will clam up if they are upset. But I don't see a need for both names.

Oh gosh learning something new here.

DS has those sticky name labels all over his schools items like lunch bag, coat, backpack, full name and tel number. I've told him if he ever gets lost he will have the labels inside his coat. Is it time to change these then?

If the staff don't know the children well enough to know their names without reading them off a wristband, then presumably the children don't know the staff either. If they don't know the staff and are just being told to go with an adult who knows their name, then labelling the child with their name surely does pose a risk.

I wouldn't like it.

I wouldn’t be massively worried about it as the chance of anything happening is vanishingly rare but it’s not great practice and I don’t see why having full name matters in this situation.

Something I do as a teacher is give all dc on a school trip (mine are littlies) a sticker with my name & phone number on and they know they can ask an adult (we talk about good people to ask) to call me if they get lost (have never lost one yet!). I just have to make sure to take all the stickers off them before sending them home as don’t want parents having my number!

Yes, it's a safeguarding issue. I work in a school and when we go on a school trip, the children are given wrist bands with the name of the school and a contact phone number printed on them, never the child's name.

Abduction by a stranger is very rare.
If a child wandered off on a trip is far more likely a nice person would help them.

What is more likely than Abduction is medical episodes, and mass evacuations. Incidents where clearly identifying which child is there is important.
A child may have an accident or a seizure....and the adult supervising may know them as Freddie...but not their last name. Medics need to know if its Freddie Smith who is diabetic or Freddie Jones who is allegic to penicillin.
Worst case scenario the adult supervising is also hurt.

Having their name on a wristband wouldn't bother me.

I wouldn't be happy having a preschool aged child being taken somewhere they might get lost. They would be better off staying at nursery, if they can't supply enough supervision to be certain one can wander off.

For a primary aged child I agree a phone number fine but can't see the logic of the name as they will know it.

well yes, but when you hear about some of the online and phone scams some adults get drawn into, you must wonder if they have a brain cell?
Presumably either a similar percentage - or possibly higher - of children are equally gullible.

Not really. But why would you need more than a phone number on it anyway?

It only needs a phone number of a leader on it. Best not to have the child's name on it and not needed.

They’re like hospital wristbands so you’d have a job turning it actually it would need to be removed completely to see all the info properly

I can't think of a single (non catastrophic) situation where it would be necessary to have them labeled with their own name!
-the teacher's name, yes
-a phone number, yes
-an address, yes

But unless they're planning for mass unconsciousness or identifying a body it seems totally unnecessary.

Wristbands can easily turn inside out or be put inside out by a child fidgeting with it.

Their name is not needed so why risk it?

Given my training about how certain adults gain information about children this would be a huge safeguarding risk and I would not be happy about it!

I can think of plenty of ways someone could see the name if they wanted to without making it obvious.

Saying their name isn't too helpful. It's the phone number that's needed.

I don't see the need for full name. Maybe first name and teacher surname ?or First name and Surname initial ? Or even first name, house number and postcode ?

With the best will in the world sometimes DC get lost. Having a phone number on a wrist band is very sensible and encouraged by the police.

Yes and in my DC’s school the info is on the inner part of the wristband so they’d also have to turn it over first!