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Insurance

The availability and cost of insurance for arboricultural (and forestry) contracting is causing some considerable concern in the industry. The Arboricultural Association is naturally concerned that insurance remains available and at an affordable price and we are making every effort to secure this.

The Arboricultural Association in conjunction with other members of the tree and insurance community have been pursuing a joint approach to this problem. This page shows the latest material but for a background.of the campaign so far, including campaigning material, Click Here


The Department for Works and Pensions is coordinating the Government's response to the insurance issue and their reply to the above letter is shown as follows

19th September 2003: Bob Elam on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions replies :-

(click here) [For the DWP Reply]

Arboricultural Association's Annual Conference hosts Insurance Open Forum

17th September 2003: Insurance Open Forum attended by six representative organisations. Background, position statement, actions to date and further actions forecast.

(click here) [Joint Industry Press Release No.2]

The Joint Industry Insurance Group recognises that there is unlikely to be an easy answer to securing affordable insurance for the industry but are committed to finding one. The Group met in October to progress the issue

14th October 2003: Joint Industry Insurance Group meeting

(click here) [Joint Industry Press Release No. 3]

A second approach to Government was made on 19th January 2004 asking Government to reconsider the groups August 2003 requests and address additional issues like the unlawful trade advantages experienced by those trading without Employers' Liability Compulsory Insurance (ELCI).

Our letter is published below:

19th January 2004: Joint Industry Letter to Government

(click here) [Second Joint Letter to MPs]

The Association invited a representative of the Government's Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to the Insurance Open Forum section of its annual Conference in September 2004. Jim Neilson (DWP) is responsible for taking forward the ELCI Review recommendations. He provides the following report:

28th September 2004: An interim update report on the progress made to deliver the recommendations outlined in the DWP's Second Stage, and Final, Report into the Review of Employers' Liability Compulsory Insurance (ELCI), by Jim Neilson Head of DWP's ELCI and Vocational Rehabilitation Team."

(click here) [For the Government Report]