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Health and safety & premises management
- Accident recording and reporting: requirements and guidance Get to grips with the statutory requirements for recording and reporting accidents and incidents on your schools' sites, and additional rules for early years settings and special schools.
- Asbestos management plan template You're required to have an asbestos management plan in place across all your schools. Share our template with your schools to help you stay compliant.
- Checklist for school premises maintenance Use our handy checklist to help you maintain your premises and meet your statutory health and safety duties. Find out how often you should carry out tasks and checks, and how you can approach delegating some tasks to your schools.
- Coronavirus: latest updates UpdatedKeep up to date with the latest COVID-19-related announcements that affect your trust. We check this daily and update whenever there's a significant change.
- Coronavirus: operational guidance summary UpdatedRead our summary of the DfE's guidance to find out what your schools need to do to operate safely during coronavirus. Here we cover the main changes to government rules, including on attendance, face coverings, and coronavirus testing.
- Coronavirus testing for pupils and staff: what you need to know and do UpdatedFollowing the return of pupils on 8 March, school staff will be carrying out at-home coronavirus tests and there'll be testing for pupils in secondary schools. Get answers to FAQs alongside a summary of the latest updates.
- COVID-19 resource hub: leading your trust during coronavirus Practical advice and resources to help you every step of the way.
- Fire safety: risk assessment and emergency evacuation procedures NewLearn about your requirements for fire evacuation and fire risk assessments across your schools.
- First aid provision: requirements and guidance Find out what you need to do to comply with your responsibilities as an employer for first aid provision in your schools. The requirements cover risk assessments, qualifications, record keeping and more, so read this to make sure you're up to speed.
- Health and safety audit: checklists Use our annual audit in each of your schools to help you comply with your health and safety duties as an employer. You'll also find checklists for classrooms.
- Health and safety duties: overview template and how to comply Be clear on your health and safety duties as the employer and understand how to fulfil them. Use our overview tool to help you keep track of and monitor your requirements across your trust.
- How to set your premises development strategy Use this step-by-step guide to help you set the premises development strategy for your MAT. Get expert advice on key steps in the process and download templates to help you along the way, including a suitability survey record form and premises strategy document.
- Partial closure guidance: summary Read our summary of the latest DfE guidance on the current national lockdown and partial school closure. Get a refresher of key information you need to know, and see what's changed in the latest version of the guidance. This is a longer-than-usual read - about 15 to 20 minutes.
- School reopening: risk assessment template for individual staff Share our template with your schools to help them assess whether staff at higher risk from coronavirus can safely return to their workplace when schools fully reopen on 8 March.
- School reopening: template risk assessment Your schools must review their risk assessment in preparation for all pupils returning from 8 March. Share our updated template with your schools to help them add or adapt their control measures, based on the latest government guidance.
- Statutory risk assessments: checklist and guidance Stay compliant and help keep your pupils, staff and visitors safe with our checklist of risk assessments you need to have in each of your schools.