A SCHOOL has been fined £30,000 after it took pupils on a hike up a mountain without any safety equipment despite a weather warning for ice. Students at Gateshead Cheder, an all boys Orthodox Jewis…
District Judge Zoe Passfield said: "There was a group of children inappropriately dressed, without safety equipment, trekking above the snowline, being led by staff without proper training, with limited daylight due to a late start against a backdrop of a warning of serious consequences from a Weatherline report.
The court heard the school trip had been organised for March 5, 2020, with the two rabbis supervising the trip and a risk assessment had been carried out.Lee Hughes, prosecuting, said the website Weatherline, which is a daily weather forecast made by fell top assessors for the Lake District, was checked the day before but a warning was ignored.
The only safety equipment they had were compasses and a torch on the rabbis' mobile phones and a map. Mr Hughes said: "By this time, the temperature was below zero and the group were 200m above the snowline.
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