Staff Ratios for Residential Trips

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Would anyone know the accepted staff ratio for a 3-day residential trip in UK. 40 Year 8 kids and 3 staff planned which just feels a bit short to me.

ooo. I don't think I'd be happy with that ratio either, I think I'd be much happier with 4.... Isn't it on the TES anywhere? I'll go for a google

d'you reckon it depends on the lea? Guidelines I've just found say 1:10 but as long as there are more than two staff apparently that's ok....

It does depend on the LEA, it sounds fine to me. Although of course it depends on the type of activity they are doing.

Minimum for a residential is usually 3.

My D is going on a school residential next year; she went on the same trip in May too. Now in Y4, was Y3.

They have 5 children to 1 adult as their ratio.

bugger all info here

The majority of schools' own sites seem to go for 1:10 ratio

For non-residential school trips it's usually 1:10... although I think the rate is set by the LEA.

Are there other members of non-teaching staff going?

Are they going to a PGL-style place where there will be instructors?

Thanks. No I don't think there will be local staff , it is a field trip. Same group of kids went to France last year , with 4 and local staff

Update : apparently 1:15 is acceptable for this age .

We work on 1-10 for residential trips which complies with the government advice.

Our last 3 night residential had 11 year 6's and 3 members of staff. We are taking around 30 to a residential this October with 4 members of staff but this is "on-site" so there will be staff from the activity centre there during the day for the activities. We always have high staff:pupil ratios!

Just realised you said y8 children not 8 year old children our 1-10 is with 8- 11 year olds

I am a Educational Visit Co-ordinator and I wouldn't allow a trip of that size to go out.

The offical rule is 1:10-15 at this age, but I always work on 1:10.

As for the internation trip, I'd have definately not agreed to that and I would also have insisted a registered First Aider went too.

It's funny, but I'm a Guider too and when we do trips, we have a ratio of about 1:7-8 and we always have a registered first aider with them. Nowhere in the government guidelines does it say that there needs to be a firstaider on a school trip though!