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Posted By Ian Stone
As a further education College we organise workplacements for students throughout the UK. We are expanding this service to send students all over the world. We are looking at our procedures for this and am here to ask if anyone out there has a procedure for this subject and the vetting of these placements. Guidance from DfES states that all placements must be visited before the students go but trying to get my head around sending staff to Brazillian rain forest to check for safety!
Any help advice would be great
Many thanks
Ian
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Posted By Ed Carter
Our College is in the same boat. Over the years we've worked out a process which MAY prove useful. Although the DofES advice is standard
If you let me have you're e-mail address, or e-mail me direct, I can let you see our materials and explain how we address the issue.
Ed
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Posted By Jasonjg
Am I wrong in suspecting that there are more than just the few establishments needing to assess these risks abroad?
Sounds like a good cue for you all to get together and fund one agency to do this work for you if it is that strongly recommended.
On a more humorous note
It just so happens that I am setting up this agency called the J.Gould world hot spot risk assessment guide.
No I will not swim in crocodile lakes or visit poppy fields in Afghanistan during my visits.
Good luck anyway
I guess the key would be to network with other establishments as you are doing and a lot of google.
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Posted By Cr8r
Ian
I used to work for a company where we occasionally sent people to work abroad.
My first port of call was always the foreign office website and look up country advice. From there you know what vaccinations are required, and basic info about local laws and customs, not to mention the political situation. I'd look it up when I got wind of them planning to go there, then check before they actually went in case the situation had changed. I gave copies of this to the people going.
I also had to get insurance for them as normal holiday travel insurance didn't cover them, so you may like to check this out too (you might be ok, my guys were doing high risk work).
Foreign office website is: www.fco.gov.uk
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Posted By David A Jones
We send people abroad as part of our business - I would caution you not to rely solely on the content of the fco site. it is my opinion that this has a political element that menas that some local information that may be of extreme importance is overlooked - you must also liaise with people in the local area. However, the depth you need to go to will obviously vary from one country to another. e.g what you may need to do for placements in France would be completely different to what you would need to do for more remote and hostile environments within the world
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Posted By Jonathan Breeze
We have a cross border agreement with Connexions in England for work placements (we do our side, they do theirs & we share the results as needed).
But it's a bit easier than linking up with Brazil.
Realistically Jason's suggestion is the only way you can go, but then you have the problem of verifying that any check done is to your normal standards.
Alternatively, you may be able to place them if they want to work for a multi-national company that applies UK & International standards to their South American factories.
But you would still have to satisfy yourself that the practice matched the paperwork.
If there was absolutely no way a check could be made (because lets face it, your LEA is not going to fund the trip) then we would pull the plug on the placement and provide an alternative.
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