Posted By smudge In addition to my full time job with the fire service I am a school governor, we have problems with children playing on the school playing field after school. These children are not from our school and we do not object to them using the field but they can be abusive to the staff when asked to leave. Rather than impose a regime that we cannot police we are considering allowing children to use the field after school. The simple question is, what is our liability should there be an injury?

Posted By Robert M Edwards Yes the above writer is 'bang on' with the law but also remember that the duty of care here to kids is higher because they are kids. Make sure that anything particularly attractive to them is removed and pay attention to the areas of risk.