Booster seats in teacher's car?

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Would you expect a teacher to have booster seats when taking Y2 children to an event?

DS and other children travelled about 4 or 5 miles, 1 mile of it on a motorway in a teacher's car without booster seats, on a trip which was a trip planned in advance.

Apart from the safety implications, I'm amazed that insurance-wise this was ok.

Any teachers here who can advise please.

LifeIsBetter I may have dreamt it but I could've sworn the OP said the child was 135cm (my dd2 certainly was at that age!) but I may well have imagined that too!

We had a similar incident to the OP. The Head drove my DD and her friend to another school without any form of booster seat. It had been a planned journey but he left late and didn't put the booster seats into his car. I was fuming. DD was 120cm at the time and 17kgs, we still had her in a 5 point harness. I wrote a letter and explained the law, he came back with 'it was an unplanned trip and the law states that if it is an emergency then booster seats aren't required.' To which I replied that the trip had been planned for weeks and that I wanted on her records that she was never allowed to travel in a school car without at least a booster cushion.
We've since changed schools, her new school has high back boosters that go in the school cars for any kid under 135cm.