Longtown
Educational Visit
Advisory Service
Empowering Schools Through Quality Educational Visits Advise and Training
Longtown Educational Visits Advisory Service provides comprehensive, affordable and personalised advice, guidance and training to schools, local authorities and trusts. Our packages enable your schools to offer high quality programmes of educational visits and outdoor learning without compromising the safety of staff or students.
1
Access to a competent person
Our advisor is an Accredited Member of the National Panel of Outdoor Education Advisers and provides ‘Competent Person’ advise.
2
Access to the
Evisit portal
We provide access to the new EV2 eVisit planning portal with full technical and administrative support.
3
Face-to-face training
We offer accredited face-to-face Educational Visits training. We also offer bespoke training that focuses on specific themes.
4
Visit emergency support
We provide access to the new EV2 eVisit planning portal with full technical and administrative support.
Why Choose us
What we offer
Educational Visits Advise
Our Educational advisor is Mike Fawcett. Mike is an Accredited Member of the national panel of Outdoor Education Advisers and has the experience, skills, knowledge and understanding to provide expert advice on all aspects of planning for Educational Visits. He also has specific expertise in ‘Enhanced Risk’ Category C visits which include all residential, adventurous and international visits and those with the planned use of water outdoors.
The Evisit Portal
This is an intuitive, one-page visit planning portal, with automatic alerts for updates and approvals and extensive reports at the click of a button. It has unmatched functionality with flexible configurations for user roles, approval flows and new form fields, AALA and LOtC integration, qualifications and certifications for staff, dynamic risk assessment builders and unlimited manual imports from pupil management systems.
Accredited Training
Our competitively priced in person face-to-face training courses are accredited by the national panel of Outdoor Education Advisers and can be delivered at your school or at accessible and vetted training locations. These courses provide invaluable opportunities for professional discussion, small group work, and networking over lunch or refreshments.
Visit Emergency Support
An emergency on a school visit can happen at any time – and school leaders need access to swift and timely advice. The Visit Emergency Support Network (VESN) – 24 hour critical incident support from a team of 5 experienced advisers working in partnership. All schools that subscribe to Longtown EVAS have access to this service.
