"We are working under the guidance of the trip organiser's crisis management services," she said.
The BBC Trust also said Sweeney's wife should not have been the trip organiser and tour leader.
"For multiple transactions, this becomes complex, often resulting in the trip organiser having to create a spreadsheet to work out what people owe across multiple transactions".
In the opening days, transport looked like the one issue that might trip up organisers in spectacular fashion.
Pete Calvert, the Varsity trip's organiser, said: "As a result of extremely icy conditions, two of the coaches taking participants back to the UK were involved in a collision last night in north France; however they did not come into contact with each other.
Outside, the gentle, drizzle-drenched charm of the Flemish countryside passes by almost unnoticed as the trip's organiser, Tom South, a softly spoken Londoner who works at The Flying Pig, a craft-beer pub in East Dulwich, hands out copies of the day's itinerary.
Lisa Young at the Calvert Trust, an outdoor activity centre on Exmoor, which can also cater for schools wanting to bring groups of mixed physical ability, says that over the past six months she has had eight schools cancel trips, with organisers citing financial reasons.
Liam Young, our trip's organiser, has been here before and he tells me that on the last visit some of his students set out to walk through all five districts, to visit each product area.
A source close to Whittingdale said: "John inquired about the cost of the trip from the organiser and it was advised it was £534.82.
