EVOLVE Advice for Providers
A confidential service for educational visits providers, from EVOLVE Advice, the educational visits specialists.
With EVOLVE Advice on your team, you’ll benefit from our risk management expertise and our extensive experience advising schools on their educational visits.
Providers shoulder a lot of responsibility
Giving children and young people access to safe and memorable educational visits is why we’re all here, right? As a provider, you play an essential part in this and with that comes significant responsibilities.
Providers must ensure visits are safe, well-organised, and fully compliant with legal requirements. But with regularly updated guidance, evolving risks, and the need to demonstrate high standards, staying on top of everything can feel overwhelming.
That’s where EVOLVE Advice comes in. Our expert advice helps you cut through the complexity, giving you the confidence that your policies, procedures, and decisions are sound. Whether it’s clarifying legislation, strengthening risk management, or working towards accreditations like the LOtC Quality Badge, we’re here to support you every step of the way.
We know schools and school trips, it is what we do. We understand there can sometimes be a barrier between providers and schools. Using data-led insights from our work with EVCs and Visit Leaders we can help your team to understand the pinch points and barriers for schools and find ways to build positive long-term relationships with your customers.
Our support, your way
If educational visits are part of what you do, we can help you do them better, safer, and with peace of mind.
Always-on or project-based, you’ll get the same dedicated service from our team
Choose our comprehensive retained service and draw on our expertise as you need it.
You’ll have unlimited access to our senior advisers for advice on risk management and compliance with national guidance and relevant legislation.
We’ll be a critical friend and confidential counsel for bigger operational or strategic decisions. We advise the boards of some of the largest providers, bringing our insights from the sector and school visits landscape to support their decision-making.
We’ll be as hands on as you need, integrating into your team to bridge knowledge gaps and provide a sounding board for ideas. If you prefer a lighter touch that’s fine too – we’ll establish ways of working at the start and adapt to your circumstances as needed.
Project-based support
If you have a specific area you’d like us to look at in detail, or an ongoing advice package isn’t for you right now, we also offer support to providers on a project-by-project basis.
We’ll meet with you to understand your needs and propose a plan of action to help you achieve your aims. Our senior advisers will be your main point of contact, applying their extensive knowledge and experience to your project.
““EVOLVE Advice provided bespoke training for our Sales and Delivery teams. It was extremely informative, practical, and confidence-building, with strong appreciation for understanding teachers’ perspectives.””
“Our colleagues now have a clear understanding of how Educational Visits Advisers support schools and the benefits of the EVOLVE system for safely managing visits – valuable insights that enhance the support we provide to our schools.”
Provider Support service
What’s included?
Our foundations package includes:
advice, guidance, H&S and risk management support on demand, from EVOLVE Advice senior advisers
alerts on national guidance, legislation and relevant sector changes (developments)
LOtC Quality Badge support
Annual (safety) review meeting with a member of EVOLVE Advice senior team
Quarterly update/progress meetings if required
Kaddi and EVOLVE review and feedback
Regular newsletters
Preferential rates for provider training for your teams
Build your bespoke package
Additional services
Educational visits policy and documentation audit
General Health and Safety policy and documentation audit*
Departmental deep-dives e.g. sales, external comms, operations team
Centre walkround, report and recommendations
LOtC Quality Badge pre-submission review
Attendance at Board meetings in advisory capacity
Technical advice for your adventure activities such as climbing and watersports
Training/insights sessions for your teams
Our confidentiality commitment
We recognise that in the course of working with you we will have access to commercially sensitive information. As standard we will engage in a mutual NDA covering the work we provide for you. We have secure database and email systems which keeps your data in password protected secure folders.
Where we are working with companies in direct competition on similar projects, we will assign different leads to those providers, and implement strict internal processes to prevent the sharing of sensitive information. In our roles we are privy to highly confidential information from Boards or senior teams which is often highly restricted, including internally within your company; we will assume everything shared with us is confidential unless instructed otherwise.
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A: No, we are a critical eye but not an inspectorate or assessment body. Members of our team are also assessors for the LOtC Quality Badge but we don’t replace this important assessment. We can, however, support you to be assessment ready.
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A: We’ll agree this with you when we’re designing your support package. Typically we would speak with Senior Members of your team or specific colleagues that you ask us to work with to maintain confidentiality.
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A: Our service complements these awards and memberships. We’re always here to answer your questions and help you identify areas for improvement across your whole offer from central operations to safety on centre, on an ongoing basis. As independent advisers, we’re in your corner when you need us, ready to advise you on arising issues or proposed changes to your business, helping you ensure you’re compliant from day one.
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A: The short answer is no. However, having an independent, critical friend is a valuable asset to an organisation like yours. Our honest, solutions-focused support gives you, and your board critical insight on safety but also the development of your business and its reputation.
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A: Yes, we can create a bespoke package for you. Let’s start with a conversation about what you’re looking for and we can build something that works for your business and budget.
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A The integrity of our advisory services is core to who we are as a company. We won’t compromise that by engaging in any business activity that undermines our independence. What that means in practice is that we won’t promote your business over another to schools or the wider sector, and we won’t knowingly support you in mis-representing your offer to schools or to awards or membership bodies.
We’ll always tell you if we identify that any of your activities are non-compliant or unsafe for children and young people. In that case, we will recommend immediate changes and if we don’t see immediate action, we may decide to terminate our service with your company.
We can offer our expert opinion on legal matters but we don’t offer legal advice or crisis management support - both of these need specialist support. We can recommend highly-experienced professionals to help you, if required.
Why choose EVOLVE Advice?
We add value to your team
We’re specialists in educational visits. Our team is highly experienced across outdoor learning, health and safety, law, and education, meaning we understand the real-world challenges you face.
We’re across the detail
We don’t just point you to regulations – we help you make sense of them. We don’t just check policies – we make sure they work in practice. And we’re always on hand to provide the latest updates, share best practice, and connect you with others in the sector.
We know what schools need
We’re trusted by over 3,000 schools, LAs and Trusts in the UK, and around the world to advise them on safety, risk management and educational visit planning. Our regular engagement with staff responsible for educational visits at all levels means we have a clear insight into the pressures and positives of working with providers from a school perspective.
With EVOLVE Advice, you’re not just staying compliant – you’re building safer, smarter, and more effective educational visits.
If you are interested in finding out more, or to request a quote, contact our team on info@evolveadvice.co.uk or book a call at evolveadvice.co.uk/diary