Schools
We work with schools to support you in making every visit safe, straightforward and properly signed off. You get a named adviser for day-to-day questions and guidance on demand.
Trusts
Managing visits advice across a Trust? We provide a single point of oversight across all your academies, with consistent standards and one advisory service relationship instead of many.
Local Authorities
We support Local Authorities with statutory oversight of educational visits across maintained schools, including audit, policy development and critical incident response at LA level.
The Educational Visits Coordinator (EVC) role is a complex one, which carries a lot of responsibility. That’s why there’s a requirement in DfE guidance and health and safety legislation that EVCs must have access to competent advice and have the appropriate skills and knowledge to fulfil the role.
At EVOLVE Advice we provide advice, guidance, and training to schools on all matters related to educational visits, as well as reviewing and approving your more complex visits. Our advice helps schools to ensure visits are safe and that they meet the relevant legal, safety and safeguarding requirements.
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Educational Visits Advisers (sometimes called Outdoor Education Advisers) provide competent, educational visits advice to schools and education settings. Advisers support Educational Visits Coordinators to fulfil their responsibilities and, in some cases, approve educational visits on behalf of the employer (where this isn’t delegated to the head).
See OEAP National Guidance document 3.4d Outdoor Education Adviser for more about the role of the Educational Visits Adviser.
>> Read our Q&A: How do I choose an Educational Visits Adviser?
Which advice package do I need?
We offer three levels of support, to suit your school and budget. From advice-led Essentials package, through to our Premium support for ultimate peace of mind, you’ll find something that works for you and your visits.
Whichever package you choose, all EVOLVE Advice clients benefit from the same dedicated support from our advisers. We encourage our EVCs to contact us for advice at any stage of your educational visit planning. Ask our advice about specific challenges, pick our brains on compliance, seek support with monitoring…. we’re here to help.
You’ll also have a key contact here at EVOLVE Advice to help manage your contract with us and make sure you’re happy with our service.
Benefits beyond advice
EVOLVE Advice clients automatically become part of our Educational Visits Community where you’ll have access to exclusive offers from providers and suppliers. You’ll also get preferential booking for special events and conferences and regular updates to ensure you’re always well-informed.
Why choose EVOLVE Advice?
With EVOLVE Advice you get the benefit of our combined experience and specialisms. Our advisers have extensive experience in leading educational visits and outdoor activities. We all have backgrounds in youth work, teaching, and activity centres each with at least level 3 awards in education and training as well as relevant health and safety training.
We each contribute our own specialist knowledge – giving you access to legal expertise, technical advice, classroom experience, and hands-on outdoor education instruction all in one place.
Having access to our team of advisers means there’ll always be someone on hand to support you, and get you answers quickly. Our ‘no out of office’ promise and ‘our support, your way’ commitment make it easier to reach us – delivering the answers that you need, when you need them.
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As EVOLVE specialists, we can troubleshoot and help you use the system efficiently to reduce workload.
Our dedicated support team helps you manage your visits in EVOLVE, resolving issues and training your team to ensure things run smoothly.
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As for training, we’re a specialist educational visits training provider with courses accredited by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) and The Institute for Outdoor Learning (IOL).
We have rigorous internal and external quality assurance processes to ensure that our training is of the highest standard and is in line with current guidance.
Find out more about our accreditation and quality assurance.
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Our advisers are members of key professional bodies including Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH); International Institute of Risk & Safety Management (IIRSM); Association of Heads of Outdoor Education Centres (AHOEC); Association for Heads of Outdoor Education Centres (AHOEC); the Association of Advisers for Outdoor Learning and Educational Visits (formerly OEAP); and relevant National Governing Bodies. We are also organisation members of the Institute for Outdoor Learning (IOL), Council for Subject Associations, and Council for Learning Outside the Classroom (CLOtC).
Contact us at info@evolveadvice.co.uk to find out more about how we can support you with your educational visits.