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Help school staff assess whether first-aid provision intended to cover pupils, visitors or other non-employees may require additional training, including paediatric first aid, and prepare to discuss the school's specific needs with a training provider.

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Reusable unscored risk register for schools in England to identify and assess hazards associated with educational visits involving caving, climbing, trekking, watersports or another activity requiring an adventure-activity licence. Use conditionally where the visit includes such an activity; do not treat this resource as evidence that a particular visit, provider or control has been completed or adopted.

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Explain why designated first aiders in UK primary and secondary schools should undertake annual refresher training and how this supports the maintenance of basic first-aid skills and awareness of changes in procedures.

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Help qualified workplace first-aiders in schools understand why annual refresher training is strongly recommended and distinguish that recommendation from a mandatory requirement.

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Define the appointed person's responsibility for first-aid equipment, facilities and summoning emergency services, and set out arrangements for availability whenever people are at work.

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To help caretakers, site managers and other employees in maintained and academy schools understand why their maintenance tasks require role-appropriate training, how to use the school's asbestos management information, and the important limit that asbestos-awareness training does not authorise work on asbestos.

2 lessons · v1

Guide maintained and academy schools in England when considering or providing an automated external defibrillator as part of their first-aid equipment.

17 sections · v1

To provide clear information about the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED), where the school has chosen to provide one following its needs assessment, and to explain how that information is made available to relevant users and connected with the school’s first-aid arrangements.

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To record the additional medical accommodation, facilities and access arrangements needed for pupils with complex medical or care needs, where this plan applies.

16 sections · v1

Help relevant school workers and contractors understand COSHH assessment findings, risks, exposure limits and protective measures, and know how to use identified controls and PPE and respond appropriately to accidents, emergencies and contractor-related substance risks.

3 lessons · v1

Identify harmful substances and hazardous processes, assess exposure routes, frequency and duration, identify affected workers and other people, and document existing controls and further actions. Apply the control hierarchy before relying on personal protective equipment.

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To control storage, labelling, segregation of incompatible materials, waste disposal, cleaning and spill response where the school stores, handles, disposes of or cleans up hazardous substances or contamination from them.

18 sections · v1

Help staff in maintained and academy schools in England understand delegated asbestos management responsibilities, the limits of delegation, the need for effective arrangements and oversight, and the importance of training, time and worker engagement.

3 lessons · v1

Guide schools and academies in England on when a Display Energy Certificate and advisory report may be required, and on retaining the associated documents and display or renewal records.

10 sections · v1

To record accidents, injuries and first-aid treatment involving children in early years provision, together with parent or carer notification and the notification outcome.

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Check that an accessible first-aid box is always available in the early years setting and contains materials appropriate for use with children.

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Prepare trip leaders to understand the purpose of emergency response and communications plans, recognise the role of regular check-ins and reassurance calls, and become familiar with the relevant school arrangements before leading a visit away from school.

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Record written consent for an educational visit where written consent is required, including visits for nursery-age children and visits for older children that require a higher level of risk assessment or take place outside normal school hours.

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To guide schools organising educational visits on the educational visits co-ordinator role, delegated authority, competence, provider assessment, advice to leaders and approvers, and the arrangement where the headteacher assumes the duty.

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To help the educational visits co-ordinator, or the headteacher undertaking that duty, understand the role, its capability expectations, its support to colleagues, and the importance of access to appropriate training, advice and guidance.

3 lessons · v1

Help identified staff in English primary and secondary schools understand the boundaries of general first-aid support and the administration of specified emergency prescription medication, and recognise the importance of following the pupil’s individual healthcare plan and authorised arrangements.

2 lessons · v1

To define how estate-related health and safety responsibilities are allocated, managed and escalated at {{school_name}}, in accordance with the school's employer or responsible body arrangements.

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Record reported estate risks, their location and impact, immediate controls, responsible ownership, required actions, escalation, completion and verification.

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To provide a clear procedure for staff and pupils to report estate risks and for the school to record, assign, assess, control, escalate and close those reports. This procedure is intended for maintained and academy schools in England managing building and external-area health and safety, where adopted by the relevant school.

25 sections · v1

Check an external educational-activity provider's safety arrangements, insurance, legal compliance, policies, risk assessments, controls, vehicles, competence, safeguarding, accommodation, subcontracting, licensing and written allocation of responsibilities.

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To maintain first-aid availability without delay at all times by planning cover for absence of a first aider or appointed person and reflecting alternative work practices in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England.

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Check the availability and suitability of accommodation for medical examination and treatment, short-term care of sick or injured pupils, and first-aid provision where identified by the first-aid needs assessment.

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Inspect each applicable first-aid container, identify missing, used or expired items, and record restocking and safe disposal actions.

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Reusable, unscored risk register for assessing the quantity, location, accessibility, labelling and suitability of first-aid materials, equipment and facilities needed for the school population, sites, activities and identified risks. Apply to maintained and academy schools in England according to the school's first-aid needs and the people and activities it supports.

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Provide a reusable, unscored register for considering first-aid needs arising from pupils, students, visitors and other non-employees, including staffing, equipment, training and incident arrangements. Complete and adapt it to the school's activities, population and circumstances where applicable.

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To provide an arrangement for reconsidering first-aid needs and provision after major changes affecting first-aid arrangements in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England.

10 sections · v1

Reusable, unscored risk register for educational visits that may fall outside current school policies or require additional planning. Record the visit-specific hazards, confirmed existing controls and proposed controls without presuming that any control, approval or arrangement has been completed.

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Help school staff recognise when industrial or commercial gas plant safety requirements apply, understand the principal hazards and controls, and understand the limits on carrying out purging, lighting up and shutting down.

3 lessons · v1

Record legionella precautions, monitoring and management activity, responsible persons, findings and corrective actions for the school's water systems.

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Monitor implemented legionella precautions, record findings and adverse results, track corrective actions, and support management oversight for school water systems where the school is an employer, controls premises, or has health and safety responsibilities for others.

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To provide a documented scheme for preventing or controlling legionella risk in school water systems, with clear responsibilities for implementing, managing, monitoring and reviewing the control arrangements.

22 sections · v1

A reusable, unscored register for identifying and assessing legionella sources and affected persons associated with school water systems, recording existing controls separately from proposed controls, and documenting review triggers. Use where the school is an employer, controls premises, or has health and safety responsibilities for others, including maintained and academy schools where those conditions apply.

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Record the appointment of the manager responsible for legionella control arrangements, including the basis of the appointment, authority, responsibilities, and competence or support arrangements.

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Provide a reusable, unscored register for determining whether lifting equipment is provided or used for work, identifying relevant equipment and users, deciding whether detailed LOLER controls are needed, and recording competent-person examination arrangements where applicable.

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Provide the school with a conditional framework for identifying lifting equipment, planning safe lifting operations, arranging thorough examination and examination schemes, responding to defects, and maintaining relevant records where the school controls, plans, or uses lifting equipment.

21 sections · v1

Record the identity of lifting equipment, the date and outcome of a thorough examination, identified defects, immediate restrictions, notifications, and remedial-action status where the school uses or controls lifting equipment subject to thorough examination.

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To support maintained and academy schools in England that manage pupil medication or provide emergency medication support by keeping medication separate from first-aid containers, defining the limited assistance first aiders may provide, identifying emergency medication arrangements in individual healthcare plans, and restricting administration of specified prescription-only medication to trained people.

17 sections · v1

Record daily visual checks, operator defect reports, actions to rectify reported problems, and decisions to remove a MEWP from service where a defect is safety critical. This checklist is conditionally applicable where a school owns, hires, manages, or arranges the use of a MEWP.

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Reusable unscored risk register for assessing ground, stability, work-at-height and falling-object hazards associated with MEWP operations in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England, excluding independent schools.

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To help staff in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England recognise when MEWP operator competence and machine-specific familiarisation need to be checked or arranged, without providing operator training or authorisation.

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Reusable unscored risk register for assessing mobile work equipment risks in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England, where the school provides relevant equipment.

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Record checks before new machinery or other work equipment is put into use, including conformity documentation, instructions, manufacturer details, obvious defects, guards, intended-use risk assessment, and acceptance or rejection actions.

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Record a simple visual check of new portable electrical equipment before first use, including any defects and actions taken.

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To record the fire-safety design approach for a proposed new school building and demonstrate, where applicable, how compliance with building regulations is being addressed.

18 sections · v1

Record checks made before new work equipment is put into use, including conformity marking, manufacturer details, Declaration of Conformity, English instructions, obvious defects and corrective action or rejection.

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Reusable, unscored register for assessing proposed work equipment or machinery before purchase, including intended use, users, foreseeable health and safety risks, manufacturer controls and supplier engagement where equipment is complex or custom-built.

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To guide a maintained or academy school in England that appoints, or is considering appointing, a nominated health and safety lead by setting out the authority, time, resources, competence, reporting arrangements and support associated with the role.

14 sections · v1

Reusable unscored register for assessing first-aid provision before an educational visit, outdoor learning session or other off-site activity. Record activity-specific hazards, confirm existing controls separately from proposed controls, and identify further actions without assigning numerical risk values.

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Ordinary Classroom Health and Safety Checklist

Optional identification of health and safety concerns in ordinary classroom settings, with recording of concerns, owners and actions. Use only for maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England that choose to use it; exclude specialist classrooms, laboratories, art, IT, design and technology, drama and sports facilities.

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Help staff in school EYFS settings understand when paediatric first-aid training should be renewed and how a first-aid needs assessment helps maintain adequate emergency coverage.

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Record, where applicable, competent-person examinations of power presses used for working on cold metal, including examination dates, safeguard inspections and tests, defects, restrictions, remedial actions and completion details.

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Reusable, unscored register for assessing infection and other public health incident risks in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England, and for documenting existing and proposed controls.

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Record the incident circumstances, affected person, work-activity connection, reporting decision, responsible person, reporting date and HSE notification reference or confirmation where applicable.

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Record the circumstances of a potentially work-related incident, assess whether a RIDDOR category may apply, document worker incapacitation, record the reporting decision and responsibility, and retain notification and record references. Use this form when the school is assessing an incident for recording or possible RIDDOR reporting, including incidents involving agency workers or other non-employees where reporting or premises-control responsibilities may apply.

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To define how the school assesses work-related accidents and incidents against applicable RIDDOR reporting requirements, records the decision, assigns responsibility and submits a report where the applicable criteria are met.

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To help maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England identify potentially reportable work-related incidents, determine whether RIDDOR applies, assign reporting responsibility, submit notifications where required, and keep records of reporting decisions and relevant incidents.

25 sections · v1

Record an unexplained or unexpected absence, follow-up attempts, the reason established, the initial Code N entry, the corrected attendance code, the five-school-day deadline and any required amendment to Code O.

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To provide a procedure for maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England to follow up every unexplained or unexpected absence, record Code N when the reason is unknown at register close, enter the correct code when the reason is established, and amend Code N to Code O when the reason remains unknown after five school days.

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To set out how a maintained school or academy in England identifies and addresses barriers to access for pupils and staff, records reasonable adjustment needs, and reviews progress.

19 sections · v1

To provide a clear plan for identifying accessibility barriers, assessing needs, recording actions to make school buildings accessible, and documenting reasonable adjustments where an assessment identifies a need.

24 sections · v1

To help staff in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England recognise when additional paediatric first-aid capability may be relevant and identify what the school should discuss with a training provider.

2 lessons · v1

This procedure supports maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England to enter pupils on the admission register from the required attendance date, keep admission-register information accurate and up to date, record notified changes of address, make applicable local-authority returns, and provide the required information when a pupil’s name is deleted.

24 sections · v1

To provide a consistent procedure for maintaining an accurate admission register, making New Pupil Returns, recording changes promptly, coordinating pupil transfers and applying the stated deletion safeguards for pupils of compulsory school age and sixth-form cases. This procedure applies conditionally to maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England when the relevant circumstance occurs; the circumstances and exceptions for each pupil must be checked.

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Record admission-register additions, removals and changes, effective attendance dates, address and parent details, deletion grounds, destination information, local-authority submission dates, receipt evidence and follow-up actions.

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Record admission-register additions, removals and changes, including attendance dates, pupil and parent details, address changes, applicable deletion reason, destination information, local-authority return details and follow-up.

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To guide maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England when entering a pupil on the admission register and following up when a pupil does not attend on an agreed starting day.

14 sections · v1

Reusable, unscored pre-visit risk register for maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England planning educational visits that include caving, climbing, trekking, watersports or another activity requiring an adventure-activity licence. Use before the visit; do not use this resource to add activities during the trip. Complete site-, provider-, participant- and activity-specific details separately where applicable.

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To provide accessible information and written instructions for using an automated external defibrillator where the school has chosen to provide one following its first-aid needs assessment.

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To help staff in eligible English schools understand when fuller AED user training is relevant, distinguish legal status from the value of confidence-building, and recognise the importance of following the AED manufacturer's information and written instructions.

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Record the condition, operation, performance observations, defects, corrective actions and escalation arising from a bi-annual check of school air-conditioning systems, alongside the applicable maintenance and statutory inspection arrangements.

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Record a condition check of each air-conditioning system, identify defects, and assign corrective action separately from the longer-term energy-assessor inspection.

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To provide a consistent procedure for providing allergen information, following applicable food-labelling rules and reducing allergen cross-contamination where {{school_name}} operates an in-scope food business or catering operation.

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Record the individual arrangements required to manage a pupil’s allergy, including triggers, prescribed emergency medication, prevention and response instructions, responsible staff, communication arrangements and review information.

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Guide maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England on the optional use and adaptation of supplied allergy safety policy and Individual Healthcare Plan templates as example material, including recording how the examples informed the school's own documents and arrangements.

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To help maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England decide how to use and adapt example allergy safety policy and Individual Healthcare Plan templates when developing their own documents, including arrangements for local record keeping and training around adrenaline auto-injectors.

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To help all staff in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools understand why allergy safety arrangements matter and recognise the main elements of a whole-school approach.

2 lessons · v1

To record a serious allergy incident or near miss occurring in the school, including the circumstances, response, contributing factors, immediate actions, lessons learned and follow-up actions.

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To guide maintained schools and academies in England in arranging alternative provision and recording attendance when the stated conditions apply following a suspension or permanent exclusion.

14 sections · v1

Record the appointment of the person responsible for taking charge of first-aid arrangements where the school's first-aid needs assessment identifies that a designated first aider is not required.

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To record the appointment and arrangements for the person responsible for taking charge of first-aid arrangements where the school's first-aid-needs assessment indicates that a first-aider is unnecessary.

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To coordinate asbestos removal, encapsulation or other asbestos works with associated condition, building-system and fabric works where those works are planned or in progress at a primary or secondary maintained or academy school in England.

24 sections · v1

To control school-controlled or commissioned construction, refurbishment, demolition and other work that may disturb building fabric or asbestos materials in primary and secondary maintained or academy schools in England.

21 sections · v1

Reusable, project-specific register for assessing whether construction, refurbishment, demolition, repair or other work may disturb asbestos or building fabric, and for recording required surveys, information, competence, licensing status and controls without assigning risk scores.

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Guidance for maintained and academy schools in England to assess, where asbestos removal, encapsulation or related building-condition works are being considered, whether available school-building capital funding may be relevant and to record the proposed works, costs, funding route, application and decision.

20 sections · v1

Record planned asbestos removal, encapsulation and associated building-condition works, estimated costs, relevant capital-funding considerations, applications and decisions.

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Record inspections of asbestos-containing or presumed asbestos-containing materials where they remain in school buildings, including location, condition, damage or deterioration, immediate controls, escalation and follow-up actions. Inspection frequency is to be set by the school's management arrangements and the material risks.

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Record the discovery of unexpected asbestos or suspect material during school-controlled maintenance, construction, refurbishment or demolition work; document immediate controls, stop-work action, reassessment, revised work controls, contractor information and authorisation to restart.

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To help school employees and supervisors understand who needs asbestos information, instruction and training, why it must be appropriate to their role, and when local arrangements must be checked before work that could disturb asbestos.

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To establish how the school identifies asbestos dutyholders, assigns premises responsibilities, delegates asbestos management roles, and monitors the effectiveness of asbestos arrangements where responsibility may be shared.

26 sections · v1

To define how asbestos-management responsibilities are assigned, delegated, escalated, resourced and monitored in a maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England where responsibilities may be shared between the employer, governing body, premises owner, academy trust, local authority or contractors.

27 sections · v1

To provide a clear procedure for the person or organisation responsible for maintaining or repairing a school's non-domestic premises in England to manage asbestos-related responsibilities, information, controls, work arrangements, communication, records and unresolved risks, where asbestos or presumed asbestos may be present.

29 sections · v1

To define how an asbestos incident that may have resulted in the release of asbestos fibres is assessed against RIDDOR reporting conditions, escalated for advice where necessary, reported to HSE where applicable and recorded.

11 sections · v1

Record an asbestos incident, possible fibre release, affected people, assessment against RIDDOR conditions, reporting decision, submission reference and associated investigation actions.

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To provide relevant asbestos information to people who may work in or use school buildings, identify activities to avoid, explain what to do after accidental damage, and ensure emergency services can access current asbestos information without entering the building where asbestos or suspected asbestos is present.

18 sections · v1

To explain how relevant asbestos locations, prohibited activities, accidental-damage actions and emergency-services information are communicated to staff, contractors, visitors, parents, carers and community users where asbestos or suspected asbestos may be present.

17 sections · v1

To help people working in or using maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England understand who needs asbestos information, instruction and training, how to avoid disturbing asbestos-containing materials, and why relevant information must be shared with building users and emergency services.

3 lessons · v1

To provide a clear plan for managing asbestos or presumed asbestos in school buildings where it is present or may be present, including the asbestos register, responsibilities, condition information, controls, emergency arrangements, communication routes, records and corrective actions.

26 sections · v1

Review asbestos precautions and management arrangements, record the status of available asbestos information, responsibilities, controls and deficiencies, and document actions, owners, target dates and closure evidence.

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Reusable, unscored register for identifying known or foreseeable asbestos-related health and safety risks to employees, pupils, students, visitors, contractors and other premises users, separating controls that may already exist from controls proposed for verification, implementation or review.

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To record the controlled annual review of a school's asbestos register and asbestos management plan, including whether the information is accurate, whether arrangements are being effectively applied, any changes or shortfalls, and how changes are communicated to staff.

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Record an assessment of an asbestos incident that may have resulted in the release of asbestos fibres, the applicable RIDDOR decision, any HSE submission and reference or confirmation, incident facts, and associated investigation actions.

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Reusable, unscored risk register for maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England where asbestos or presumed asbestos may be present, or where work could disturb asbestos-containing materials. Use to assess known, presumed and potentially hidden materials; identify people who may be exposed; record verified existing controls separately from proposed controls; define arrangements for routine maintenance, construction work and emergencies; and track remedial or further-management actions. Applicability remains conditional and must be confirmed for the individual premises.

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Reusable unscored risk register for maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England to assess known, presumed and potentially hidden asbestos-containing materials, identify people who may be exposed, specify controls for routine and planned work, define emergency arrangements and record remedial actions. Applicable only where asbestos or presumed asbestos may be present in school buildings or where work could disturb asbestos-containing materials.

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To guide maintained schools, academy schools and trusts in England when considering routes to market and procurement support for asbestos services.

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To provide a consistent procedure for specifying and sourcing asbestos services, selecting an appropriate route to market, and retaining the procurement and supplier decision records for {{school_or_trust_name}}.

18 sections · v1

To control asbestos-containing waste generated by school works or works commissioned by the school by ensuring that the waste is contained, classified and disposed of in accordance with applicable hazardous-waste requirements, with consignment evidence retained.

18 sections · v1

To provide a procedure for classifying, containing and arranging the authorised disposal of asbestos-containing waste generated by school works or works commissioned by the school, including obtaining and retaining waste consignment evidence when disposal is contracted out.

16 sections · v1

To control school-commissioned or school-controlled construction, refurbishment, demolition, maintenance or repair work where asbestos may be disturbed by determining the asbestos risk, providing relevant information, checking controls and competence, and authorising work only where the required information and controls are in place.

24 sections · v1

To provide a comprehensive plan for a maintained or academy school in England where attendance is struggling, setting out the attendance problems, actions, owners, support arrangements, review points, progress reporting, evaluation and links to wider school-improvement or school-to-school support.

28 sections · v1

To provide a procedure for recording and retaining the information required in the attendance and admission registers of a local-authority-maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England, using the school’s register system and local arrangements.

25 sections · v1

To provide a procedure for daily attendance monitoring, action on poor or irregular attendance, attendance returns, identification of suspected or confirmed children missing education, referral to the home local authority, continuing reasonable enquiries, and communication until closure or agreed cessation. It is applicable to maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England when the relevant attendance or children-missing-education circumstances arise.

21 sections · v1

Record non-compliance with an attendance contract, the explanation sought and received, review activity, amended terms, warnings or termination correspondence, alternative-intervention decisions, reasons and follow-up actions.

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To provide a consistent procedure for responding to non-compliance with a live attendance contract in a maintained or academy school in England, while considering the parent’s explanation, whether the difficulty was within the parent’s control, whether the contract remains useful, and whether another intervention should be pursued.

21 sections · v1

To support case-by-case decisions about whether to use an attendance contract, education supervision order, attendance prosecution, parenting order or penalty notice for an individual pupil, taking account of the family’s circumstances, available support and safeguarding duties, with the aim of changing parental behaviour and recording the rationale.

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Record the individual attendance case, family circumstances, support considered or provided, safeguarding considerations, intervention options assessed, selected decision, reasons, approvals and follow-up actions.

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To explain how {{school_name}} sets attendance expectations, records attendance, responds to absence, supports pupils facing barriers to attendance, shares information, liaises with the local authority, provides governance oversight and reviews its arrangements as attendance barriers evolve.

20 sections · v1

To set out how {{school_name}} records attendance and absence accurately, takes the attendance register, records lateness and specified absence circumstances, follows up illness absence, and monitors engagement with remote education where applicable.

26 sections · v1

Record attendance barriers, discussions with the pupil and parents, relevant young-carer, health or SEND information, support and reasonable adjustments, referrals or partner liaison, phased-return arrangements where used, review outcomes and further actions.

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To help maintained and academy schools in England identify attendance support available to an individual pupil and family, assess whether that support is appropriate, record support provided or offered, and use the assessment when deciding whether attendance legal action should proceed.

21 sections · v1

To help maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England consider, purchase and position an automated external defibrillator (AED) as part of their first-aid equipment where the school chooses to provide one, subject to local first-aid needs, risk assessment and resources.

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To help school staff understand when fuller AED user training may be considered, how it differs from written AED operating instructions, and why a school may choose to provide it.

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To provide a clear framework for responding to incidents during educational visits away from school and for managing routine communications, regular check-ins and calls to reassure people. It is for trip leaders, visit staff, the school and relevant families when an educational visit takes place away from school.

23 sections · v1

To provide a child-centred procedure for identifying concerns about children missing education, considering their circumstances and welfare, sharing relevant information, making referrals where needed, taking prompt follow-up action, and recording concerns, actions and outcomes.

22 sections · v1

Record concerns relating to children missing education or unexpected and unexplained absence, including enquiries made, information shared, actions taken, referrals, safeguarding decisions, responsible persons and follow-up outcomes.

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Record a suspected or confirmed children-missing-education case or unexpected absence, including the trigger, condition status, contacts, reasonable enquiries, information and evidence considered, local-authority communication, referral and closure decisions, deletion safeguards and follow-up ownership.

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To provide a clear governance and accountability framework for attendance, admission-register accuracy, children missing education, local-authority cooperation, safeguarding escalation, fair access, in-year admissions and support for pupils at risk of disengagement in a maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England.

40 sections · v1

To set out how {{school_name}} considers the statutory children-missing-education guidance, assigns responsibilities, identifies and supports children missing education, records that the guidance has been considered, and documents reasonable grounds for any departure from it.

22 sections · v1

Record the identification of a child missing education case, the circumstances and evidence considered, joint enquiries with the local authority, actions taken without delay, communications, welfare and safeguarding considerations, referrals, decisions, closure and any agreed cessation of further action.

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To set out arrangements for maintained schools and academy trusts in England to have regard to statutory children-missing-education guidance, identify and support children missing education through a child-centred approach, identify concerns, share information, take prompt action and record reasonable grounds for any departure from the guidance.

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To provide a procedure for maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England when a pupil is suspected or identified as missing education, including prompt referral, joint reasonable enquiries, communication with the home local authority and safeguards before deletion of a pupil’s name in specified prolonged-absence circumstances.

18 sections · v1

To record a safeguarding concern involving a child who may be or is missing education, the urgency of consideration, designated safeguarding lead involvement, referral decisions, rationale, immediate actions, and handover or outcome.

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To guide staff in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England when a pupil is suspected or identified as missing education and there is a concern about the pupil’s safety or welfare.

15 sections · v1

Record a possible children-missing-education or unexplained-absence case, GIAP searches and results, relevant worker details, notifications, register-deletion communications, safeguarding actions and follow-up outcomes.

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To provide a computing curriculum progression plan for maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England, supporting safe, responsible, respectful and secure technology use at each relevant key stage, reflecting different and escalating online risks and showing where pupils can obtain help and support.

23 sections · v1

To support school leaders in managing purchasing and contracting procedures, communicating site-specific risks and relevant precautions, overseeing contractor activities, and responding to accidents or incidents where contractors work on a maintained or academy school site in England.

22 sections · v1

Reusable, unscored register for identifying harmful substances and process-generated contaminants, assessing exposure routes and affected people, recording existing controls separately from proposed controls, and assigning further actions. Complete it for the specific substances, processes, locations and people at risk. Where lead or asbestos is relevant, consider the separate regulatory arrangements rather than treating this register as a substitute for them.

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To help school workers and contractors understand the COSHH assessment information relevant to their work, use identified controls and PPE correctly, know where to find local accident and emergency arrangements, and understand how hazardous substances brought onto school premises by contractors are managed.

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To control exposure where the school stores, handles, disposes of, or cleans up hazardous substances or contamination from them by restricting access, managing storage and waste, maintaining suitable cleaning arrangements, and responding promptly and safely to spillages.

15 sections · v1

Record a case-specific check of school and local-authority moves within the previous three years, enquiries about penalty notices for the parent and pupil, responses or unavailable-information records, and the resulting escalation decision.

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To provide a plan for multi-academy trusts and federation governing bodies in England to create regular opportunities for staff from different schools to analyse attendance patterns, identify common issues and barriers, share effective interventions and resources, and apply learning across their schools.

17 sections · v1

Daily operational assurance activity for monitoring the attendance register, responding to unexpected or poor attendance, preparing or making relevant attendance returns, and escalating emerging children-missing-education concerns for case handling.

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Daily operational assurance that morning and afternoon attendance has been recorded, absence coding and applicable part-time timetable entries have been checked, unexpected absence has been identified, and required information or follow-up has been progressed.

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To record the applicability, current Display Energy Certificate and advisory report arrangements for each qualifying school or academy building in England.

12 sections · v1

Reusable, unscored risk register for assessing a school's vulnerability to river, coastal, surface-water and reservoir flooding, drainage capacity, roof ponding, blockages, contamination, water damage, disruption and required controls or remedial actions.

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Record an accident or injury involving a child in early years provision, any first-aid treatment provided, and parent or carer notification.

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Check that an accessible early years first-aid box is available and contains equipment appropriate for use with children in the school's early years provision.

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Support the school’s participation in each Education Supervision Order review meeting by recording review attendance, contributions, current actions and directions, amendments, unresolved barriers and follow-up ownership. Use only where an Education Supervision Order is in force and the school is required to participate; this checklist does not replace professional or legal decisions.

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To support the school's participation in Education Supervision Order review meetings, preparation of relevant school information, discussion of current actions and directions, consideration of amendments, attendance recording, and follow-up with the local authority and other relevant parties where an Education Supervision Order is in force for a pupil connected with the school.

17 sections · v1

Record visit information, participant details, parental or carer communications, and written consent where it is required for the educational visit.

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Record the evaluation of a completed educational visit from planning through delivery, including incidents, accidents, near-misses, lessons learned, actions and responsibility for follow-up.

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To help staff in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England classify educational visits, prepare proportionate plans and risk assessments where required, confirm competent leadership, obtain informed approval where required, and record the decision before departure.

23 sections · v1

Operationally verify that the visit classification, planning, risk assessment, approvals, consent, provider checks, activity controls, emergency communications and leader briefing are addressed before departure.

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To help an educational visits co-ordinator, or a headteacher undertaking that duty, understand the role, expected competence, support for risk assessment, oversight of staff and providers, approval advice, and access to specialist guidance for educational visits.

5 lessons · v1

To provide a procedure for maintaining the school admission register electronically, entering all compulsory and non-compulsory pupils, and making the register and its operation capable of being evidenced and audited where this procedure applies.

27 sections · v1

Record the monthly emergency-lighting flash test, identify failed fittings or controls, and assign corrective action before the system is relied upon for escape lighting.

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To establish arrangements for managing estate-related health and safety in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England, including responsibility, delegated functions, competent assistance, plant and workplace safety, access controls, escalation and oversight.

34 sections · v1

Provide school employees with a general awareness of estate-related risks, protective measures, procedures and the need for appropriate, periodically repeated training, including additional training where particular hazards or responsibilities require it.

3 lessons · v1

Provide an accessible record for reporting building and external-area risks, documenting the issue, controls, ownership, actions, escalation, completion and evidence of closure.

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Support a proportionate operational inspection of school premises, plant, access routes, workplace fabric and external areas, with recording of hazards, responsible persons, immediate controls, remedial actions and close-out evidence.

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To help maintained and academy schools in England maintain controlled records that support the safety and regulatory compliance of their school estate.

18 sections · v1

To help maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England maintain documents that support the safety and regulatory compliance of the school and estate, including certificates, records, relevant assessments, inspection logs, registers and contractor contact details.

21 sections · v1

Record a suspension or permanent exclusion, consecutive school days, alternative-provision arrangements, commissioning details, attendance at the provision, the applicable attendance code or Code D, and follow-up responsibilities.

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Record due-diligence checks for an external organisation providing an educational-visit activity to a maintained or academy school in England.

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To guide a maintained or academy school in England when assessing an external organisation for an educational-visit activity and agreeing responsibilities in writing, particularly where the organisation will supervise children or provide an adventure activity.

14 sections · v1

Reusable, unscored risk register for identifying, managing, recording and reviewing hazards in school grounds and external areas that pupils, staff or visitors may access.

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To provide a procedure for schools in England with fire detection and alarm systems to record all fire-alarm work, keep the records accessible to the fire service, and keep zone diagrams available at the main control panel.

9 sections · v1

To guide schools with fire detection and alarm systems on recording fire-alarm work, keeping records accessible to the fire service, and making zone diagrams available at the main control panel.

8 sections · v1

Record the weekly fire detection and alarm test, identify the manual call point used, rotate the selected call point where multiple call points exist, and record and escalate defects.

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Reusable unscored risk register for maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England when significant premises alterations have occurred or are planned. Use it to identify changed fire risks, verify existing precautions, record proposed controls and remedial actions, and determine whether fire safety documentation requires updating. Trigger the assessment by the relevant alteration rather than by an invented fixed calendar review. Record site-specific findings only after verification.

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Record the circumstances and dates relevant to entering a pupil on the admission register, including the agreed or notified attendance date, the date and time of entry, evidence of first attendance where no date was agreed or notified, and any invalid registration requiring prompt deletion.

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To provide a clear method for communicating first-aid arrangements, including the first-aid policy, equipment and facility locations, first-aider or appointed-person contacts, urgent contact arrangements, and procedures for monitoring and reviewing first-aid needs, subject to each school's actual arrangements and sites.

16 sections · v1

To set out how {{school_name}} will determine, provide and communicate first-aid equipment, facilities, appointed-person or first-aider responsibilities, availability, absence cover, emergency-service contact and alternative arrangements for working and school activity periods.

29 sections · v1

To define how the school determines and provides first-aid equipment, facilities and personnel for employees, records decisions arising from its first-aid needs assessment, communicates the arrangements, and applies appointed-person responsibilities where the assessment indicates that a first-aider is unnecessary.

24 sections · v1

To define how a maintained or academy school in England determines and communicates its first-aid equipment, facilities and personnel arrangements.

23 sections · v1

To communicate first-aid arrangements to staff, pupils, students and parents or carers at maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England, where applicable.

13 sections · v1

Check first-aid containers and other provision identified by the school's first-aid needs assessment for quantity, accessibility, labelling, marking, stock condition, expiry, restocking and safe disposal.

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Use this checklist for each first-aid box or other first-aid container provided by the school. It applies where the school provides first-aid boxes or other first-aid equipment; contents and locations should be checked against the current first-aid needs assessment.

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Check first-aid boxes and supplies for accessibility, suitability, stock levels, expiry, fitness for purpose, medicines, replenishment and disposal, with contents based on the school's first-aid needs assessment.

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Check first-aid boxes, supplies, expiry dates, signage, eye-irrigation provision where applicable, and first-aid-room arrangements against the school's first-aid-needs assessment.

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Check first-aid facilities, boxes, kits and supplies against the school's first-aid needs assessment, including accessibility, suitability, contents, expiry dates, undated-item fitness, medicines restrictions, replenishment, disposal and any additional equipment identified as necessary.

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Check first-aid rooms and associated facilities for suitability, accessibility, clear identification, supervision arrangements and readiness, including sterile eye-irrigation supplies where mains tap water is not readily available.

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Record incidents attended by first-aid staff or an appointed person, including the incident details, first aid given, immediate outcome, and the person dealing with the incident.

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Reusable unscored register for assessing workplace and workforce hazards, organisation size, staffing, premises, activities, mobile or off-site work and foreseeable attendance to determine first-aider numbers, appointed-person arrangements, facilities, equipment, training and information needs.

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Reusable, unscored register for assessing first-aid needs and provision for employees, pupils, students, visitors and other relevant non-employees in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England. Use the register to record site-specific arrangements, identify gaps and separate existing controls from proposed controls.

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Reusable, unscored register for assessing first-aid needs and recording existing and proposed controls for staff, pupils, students, visitors and others in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England.

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Reusable, unscored assessment for determining and recording first-aid needs and provision for employees, pupils, visitors and other relevant people in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England. The assessment should reflect the school's staffing, premises, population, activities and actual hazards.

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Reusable, unscored register for assessing first-aid needs in maintained and academy schools in England, including workplace hazards and risks, organisation size, staffing, premises, activities and foreseeable attendance, and for recording existing and proposed controls separately.

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Reusable unscored register for assessing first-aid needs at a maintained or academy primary or secondary school workplace in England. Complete with site-specific information and revisit when workplace, workforce or risk circumstances change.

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Reusable, unscored risk register for assessing first-aid needs and recording decisions about first-aid personnel, equipment and facilities in primary and secondary schools in England, including whether a first-aid room is required and whether provision for non-employees should be considered.

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Record the findings and rationale of a school's first-aid needs assessment, including decisions about equipment, facilities, personnel and any first-aid room, where the school chooses to document the assessment outcome.

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To guide a school where its first-aid needs assessment identifies that a suitable first-aid room is required, including its designation, access, cleanliness, availability and physical conditions.

14 sections · v1

Operationally check the suitability and readiness of a first-aid room where the school's first-aid needs assessment identifies that one is required.

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Help school staff understand how to use the school's first-aid needs assessment to select an appropriate level and mix of workplace first-aid training and to plan sufficient trained first-aider coverage where the assessment identifies relevant risks or circumstances.

2 lessons · v1

Help school staff understand how a first-aid needs assessment informs the appropriate level and mix of workplace first-aid training and the planning of sufficient first-aid coverage.

2 lessons · v1

Help designated school first-aiders understand the purpose and status of annual refresher training, including how it supports maintenance of basic skills and awareness of changes in first-aid procedures.

1 lesson · v1

To provide notice content for display where a school has a first-aid room and first-aiders.

6 sections · v1

Record the agreed starting date, absence trigger, contact attempts, outcomes, information obtained, local-authority notification, welfare or safeguarding considerations and follow-up ownership for a pupil who fails to attend as expected.

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To provide a clear procedure for following up a newly registered pupil who does not attend on the agreed starting day, establishing the reason for absence, recording contact attempts and outcomes, notifying the local authority where the pupil cannot be located, and responding appropriately to relevant welfare or safeguarding concerns.

14 sections · v1

Provide an unscored, reusable risk register for assessing and reviewing vulnerability to river, coastal, surface-water and reservoir flooding, drainage and roof risks, defects, remedial actions and post-storm conditions. Use only where relevant flood, drainage or roof risks may apply.

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Record changes to a school food business, start-up checks, additional hazards, impacts on hygiene and food-safety practices, revised controls, staff communications and actions required before or after implementation.

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To set out practical controls for food hygiene, allergen information, labelling and prevention of cross-contamination where the school prepares or serves food.

18 sections · v1

Help people working in primary and secondary schools in England identify when their duties bring them within the scope of food-hygiene training arrangements and understand the difference between adequate training and holding a food-hygiene certificate.

2 lessons · v1

Record changes to food-safety management arrangements or food processes, the staff affected, briefing or training delivered, responsible communicator, and any follow-up competence action.

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Reusable, unscored register for identifying hazards arising from a school's food business or catering operation, recording controls currently in place, proposing additional controls, and documenting review triggers and actions following changes.

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Help people working in or around school food operations identify when food-hygiene training is relevant, understand the expectation to demonstrate adequate training, and distinguish that expectation from a universal requirement to hold a food-hygiene certificate.

2 lessons · v1

Help school food-business staff recognise when a food process or food-safety management arrangement has changed, identify who needs to know, and understand why training is required when food processes change.

2 lessons · v1

Record food-safety diary entries, including relevant daily or operational checks, findings, corrective actions and completion information, for schools with food operations using the SFBB diary or an equivalent food-safety record.

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To provide a procedure for managing food safety in a school's food business, including documented controls, hygiene arrangements, start-up checks, the recording and review of changes, corrective actions, and communication of changed food-safety arrangements.

26 sections · v1

Set out maintenance arrangements for gas appliances, pipework and other gas equipment at {{school_name}}, including manufacturer instructions, specified maintenance periods, and retention of scheduled maintenance and gas-safety check records.

12 sections · v1

To ensure that, where gas fittings are present, work on them at {{school_name}} is carried out only by a Gas Safe registered engineer qualified for the specific work.

10 sections · v1

To guide a maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England, where applicable, when investigating a child who may be missing education: use Get Information About a Pupil to help establish whether the child is registered at another school, retain the identifiers and search results used, and create and revisit a custom CME list where that approach is used.

13 sections · v1

Record a case involving a child considered to be missing education and, where applicable, GIAP searches or search logs, identifiers used, search dates, results, custom-list status, resulting contacts or safeguarding actions, and follow-up decisions.

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Reusable unscored register for identifying, managing, reviewing and recording arrangements for hazards in school grounds and external areas that may be accessible to pupils, staff or visitors.

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To support continuity of education when a Gypsy, Roma or Traveller pupil leaves a maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England without an identified destination school, including during transition between primary and secondary school.

13 sections · v1

Record the departure of a Gypsy, Roma or Traveller pupil who leaves a maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England without an identified destination school, including destination checks, local-authority notification, transition circumstances and continuity-of-education follow-up actions.

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To provide a procedure for schools that store or use dangerous materials or chemicals to maintain an up-to-date inventory, secure hazardous substances, restrict access through school-specific arrangements, and link storage and handling arrangements to applicable COSHH controls and school-specific hazards.

16 sections · v1

To provide staff with a clear local route for raising health and safety concerns, cooperating with employer and contractor arrangements, receiving a response and escalating unresolved matters, subject to the arrangements that apply to the school.

20 sections · v1

To set out proportionate health and safety responsibilities and arrangements for staff, pupils, visitors and contractors at {{school_name}}, subject to the school's employer type and operating arrangements.

26 sections · v1

To set out the proportionate health and safety responsibilities and arrangements for {{school_name}}, so that governance, school leadership, staff, contractors and others work together to manage health and safety responsibly.

30 sections · v1

Reusable, unscored register for identifying significant risks to staff, pupils, visitors and others affected by school activities, recording verified existing controls separately from proposed controls, and documenting review triggers and resulting actions.

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To record health-surveillance outputs, worker-raised concerns, occupational-health feedback, preventive actions, referrals, changes to controls, and related training or educational reinforcement while avoiding unnecessary confidential health information.

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To record the occupational-health needs considered, the competent occupational health professional who provided input, the competence basis for that professional, the advice or scheme-design input received, and the resulting health surveillance arrangements for a maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England establishing a health surveillance scheme.

16 sections · v1

Record health-surveillance feedback, worker-raised concerns, further preventive actions, responsible owners, completion status and any resulting reinforcement of training or education.

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To guide schools that operate health-surveillance schemes in reviewing outputs for further preventive action, enabling workers to raise concerns about work-related health effects, and reinforcing relevant training and education.

10 sections · v1

Reusable, unscored risk register for proportionate assessment of educational visits outside existing school policies or requiring additional planning. Record visit-specific hazards, existing controls, proposed controls, participant capabilities, planning requirements and approval requirements without pre-populating site observations, equipment links, maps or risk scores.

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Before hired lifting equipment or accessories are used, record the equipment identity, hire details, current thorough-examination report, restrictions or defects, responsible checker and decision to accept or reject the equipment. Use this checklist conditionally when the school hires lifting equipment or accessories.

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Reusable unscored risk register for assessing hot-water temperatures at points of use, identifying people and locations at risk, recording existing controls separately from proposed controls, and documenting corrective actions needed to prevent scalding.

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To provide a clear, consistent and proportionate approach for accepting parent notifications of illness absence and requesting medical evidence when there is a genuine and reasonable basis to do so.

13 sections · v1

Record an in-year application, receipt date, applicant communications, decision and reasons, written notification, local-authority notification, fair-access allocation or referral, behavioural grounds, and any School Attendance Order naming consultation or agreement.

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Record an in-year admission application, its receipt, assessment, decision, written notification, local-authority notification where relevant, and any fair access or behavioural-refusal considerations.

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To provide a clear procedure for the publication and administration of school-managed in-year admissions, application routes and forms, local-authority notifications, written decisions, fair-access protocol compliance, behavioural admission restrictions and cooperation with local-authority School Attendance Order naming processes in applicable maintained and academy schools in England.

24 sections · v1

Reusable, unscored register for assessing explosion, flame-failure, ventilation, gas-supply interlock, carbon monoxide and combustion-product risks associated with industrial or commercial gas plant in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England. Use only where such plant is operated, including larger catering or specialist process equipment; it is not required solely because ordinary domestic-scale gas appliances are present.

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To provide a conditional procedure for using air-cleaning units as interim support where adequate ventilation cannot currently be maintained, while remedial works are undertaken and air cleaning is not used as a substitute for ventilation.

15 sections · v1

Guide schools on the conditional use of an air-cleaning unit as temporary support where adequate ventilation cannot temporarily be maintained and remedial works are planned, while ensuring that the unit does not replace ventilation or delay long-term remediation.

14 sections · v1

To provide a procedure for schools with kitchen gas equipment and an extract system intended to remove gas fumes or leaks during cooking, covering specification, verification, testing and management of the interlock between the kitchen extraction system and the gas supply.

21 sections · v1

Review late-arrival records to identify patterns, check whether explanations have been sought from parents, record proportionate responses, and assign follow-up actions.

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Record the identity and condition of a lifting accessory, the competent person's thorough examination, findings, defects, restrictions, remedial actions, examination basis and next due date.

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Reusable, unscored risk register for identifying lifting equipment and lifting operations at a maintained or academy school in England, and for recording existing and proposed controls relating to strength, stability, positioning, installation, operation, examination, inspection, defects and information keeping. Applicability remains conditional until supported by site evidence.

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Reusable, unscored register for identifying whether lifting equipment or lifting operations are provided, controlled or used by a maintained or academy school in England, and for recording existing and proposed controls without assuming that equipment or operations are present.

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Record lifting-equipment identity, safe-working-load information, declarations of conformity, test certificates, thorough-examination reports, examination due dates, defects, corrective actions and evidence that unsafe or overdue equipment was removed from use.

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Record the pre-use examination of lifting equipment that is newly acquired, assembled, installed or relocated, including its identity, location, assembly or installation details, competent person, examination result, defects and authorisation or refusal to use.

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To control the withdrawal of lifting equipment or accessories from use when an examination or inspection identifies a defect that is or could become a danger to people, track any remedy deadline stated in the report, arrange the remedy, and control return to use or disposal.

20 sections · v1

To provide a clear process for preventing further use of lifting equipment or accessories when an examination or inspection identifies a defect that is or could become a danger to people, and for managing the defect through remedy and any applicable return-to-use process.

20 sections · v1

Check that applicable lifting equipment and accessories are identified, within safe working limits, appropriately marked, certified and not overdue for examination; record examination reports, declarations of conformity, test certificates, defects and removal-from-use decisions.

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Provide schools with controlled arrangements for retaining, accessing and producing thorough-examination, inspection and conformity records where the school has or controls lifting equipment or lifting accessories.

14 sections · v1

Record the presence and identification of lifting equipment, its condition, examination or inspection scope, competent person, findings, defects, restrictions, corrective actions and next steps.

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Operational checklist for examining lifting equipment identification and markings, positioning, installation condition, visible defects and inspection status, with actions for missing, illegible or incorrect markings and unsafe equipment. Use only where lifting equipment is present and adapt the checks to the equipment and competent-person arrangements.

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To provide an administrative procedure for schools that control, plan or use lifting equipment subject to thorough examination, covering responsibility, lifting-operation planning, examination arrangements, record keeping and defect reporting.

24 sections · v1

Operational pre-use and examination-status checks for lifting equipment and accessories used for school work. Adapt the checklist to the equipment and do not use it as a substitute for a competent person’s thorough examination.

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Record operational checks of lifting equipment and accessories before use. Adapt the checks to the equipment and do not use this checklist as a replacement for a LOLER thorough examination.

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Maintain a controlled register of lifting equipment and lifting accessories, including thorough-examination and inspection records and, where held, Declarations of Conformity, with controls for retention, access, written copies and protection against unauthorised alteration.

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To record lifting equipment identity and markings, examination and inspection information, defect notifications, restrictions, repairs, corrective actions, and the controlled location of retained information where applicable.

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A controlled record for schools in England to document lifting-equipment identity, examination and inspection reports, competent persons or contractors, defects, corrective actions, maintenance or repairs, and record-retention arrangements where the school manages lifting equipment or associated reports and defect information.

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Check that lifting machinery and lifting accessories used or controlled by the school are clearly marked or otherwise provided with safe working load information, including configuration-specific capacities where applicable, and record missing, illegible or corrected markings.

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Record the identity of equipment used to lift loads, the competent-person thorough examination, report availability, findings, defects, restrictions, remedial actions and next due date, including additional examination triggers.

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Record the identity of equipment used to lift people, the competent-person thorough examination, report availability, findings, defects, restrictions, remedial actions and next due date. Use this checklist conditionally where such equipment is used and no written examination scheme specifies different intervals.

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Schedule and assurance checklist for arranging and recording thorough examinations of equipment used to lift loads, including competent-person reports, next-due dates, defect actions and additional examination triggers.

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Schedule and assurance checklist for arranging and recording LOLER thorough examinations of equipment used to lift people and lifting accessories, including competent-person reports, next-due dates, defect actions and additional examination triggers.

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To support a school when it arranges or commissions a LOLER thorough examination of lifting equipment or accessories by ensuring that the proposed examiner has appropriate knowledge and experience, is sufficiently independent and impartial, and does not assess their own routine maintenance work.

15 sections · v1

Controlled record for each LOLER thorough-examination report, including examination dates, defects, Schedule 1 information, serious-defect escalation and relevant enforcing-authority submissions.

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This procedure supports maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England where the school provides, hires, controls or uses lifting equipment or carries out lifting operations. It sets out how to identify lifting equipment and accessories, plan and supervise lifting operations, appoint competent and sufficiently independent examiners, control installation and relocation, verify safe-working-load information, arrange thorough examinations, retain reports and respond to defects and event-triggered examination requirements.

34 sections · v1

Reusable, unscored register for identifying hazards, recording existing controls and documenting proposed controls for lifting equipment and lifting operations in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England. Use only where the school provides, controls, hires or uses lifting equipment or carries out lifting operations.

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Reusable, unscored risk register for assessing lifting operations, equipment and accessories, load limits, attachment and securing methods, ground and environmental conditions, competence, supervision, exclusion zones, and risks from moving equipment or falling loads. Apply conditionally where a school undertakes, arranges or controls lifting operations involving hoists, lifts, cranes, fork lifts, telehandlers, lifting accessories or similar equipment.

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To help a maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England organise and control lifting operations where the school carries out or arranges lifting operations using lifting equipment.

15 sections · v1

To provide a consistent arrangement for organising and controlling lifting operations where lifting equipment is used at the school, taking account of the equipment, operation, workplace and people involved.

22 sections · v1

To guide maintained and academy schools in England, and relevant police and local-authority officers, when obtaining, applying, communicating and retaining evidence of the local authority’s current published Code of Conduct for issuing fixed penalty notices.

22 sections · v1

Reusable, unscored register for recording whether a school provides or uses lifting equipment at work, identifying relevant equipment and users, determining whether detailed LOLER controls are needed, and recording competent-person examination arrangements where LOLER applies.

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To provide a procedure for a school that uses or controls lifting equipment or lifting accessories subject to LOLER thorough examination, covering identification, appointment of a competent person, separation of servicing from examination, examination intervals and event-triggered examinations, retention of reports, and action on defects.

23 sections · v1

Record each LOLER thorough examination, the required report information, dangerous or potentially dangerous defects, escalation, enforcing-authority notification, equipment-use restrictions and remedial-action status.

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Record the basis for a sickness return for an eligible pupil and document the local-authority submission and available submission evidence.

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To provide a procedure for a maintained school in England to send a common transfer file when a pupil ceases to be registered at the school and becomes registered at another school in England or Wales.

17 sections · v1

Record the transfer trigger, pupil and destination-school details, common transfer file, transmission date, delivery or receipt confirmation, and any exception, failed-transfer or follow-up action.

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Record the manual-handling task considered, any HSE risk filter or assessment tool used, the decision on whether a detailed assessment was needed, identified risks, selected controls and actions arising from the assessment.

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To provide a procedure for a maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England, where it acts as an employer and staff or other workers undertake manual-handling activities, to identify relevant activities, avoid manual handling where possible, assess remaining risks, select controls, and assign responsibilities and actions.

24 sections · v1

Reusable, unscored register for recording manual-handling activities, task-specific hazards, existing controls, proposed controls, responsibilities and review triggers. Complete it using the school's actual tasks, loads, working environment and people involved. It does not assign severity, likelihood or residual values.

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Reusable, unscored register for recording manual-handling tasks, loads, environments, people exposed, existing controls and proposed risk-reduction measures in primary and secondary schools in England. Use the HSE manual-handling risk filters where useful to help decide whether a detailed assessment is proportionate, and use a relevant HSE assessment tool or equivalent where structured evaluation would assist. Record how findings inform risk reduction.

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Inspect medical and first-aid accommodation for suitability, availability, washbasin provision, proximity to a toilet, appropriateness for examination and short-term care, and whether the room is used for teaching.

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To define the separation of medication from first-aid containers, the limits of first-aider assistance, arrangements for pupils who carry or need their own medication, the role of individual healthcare plans, and the trained-person requirement for administration of specified prescription-only medication where applicable.

20 sections · v1

To support daily visual and pre-use checks for a MEWP operating on school grounds, construction areas, temporary works areas or other surfaces under the school's control. Adapt the checklist to the particular equipment, manufacturer's instructions and site conditions.

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Reusable unscored risk register for assessing hazards associated with mobile elevating work platform operation on school grounds or other ground under school control, including work at height and exposure of people below the platform.

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To help people in UK primary and secondary schools recognise the competence and familiarisation requirements that apply before a mobile elevating work platform (MEWP) is operated.

2 lessons · v1

To set out how the school uses its first-aid needs assessment to determine provision for employees who travel, work remotely or work elsewhere, including personal first-aid boxes, communication equipment and arrangements for contacting emergency services.

16 sections · v1

Reusable, unscored risk register for risks arising from school-provided or school-controlled mobile work equipment. Use only where applicable, including grounds, estate or maintenance machinery, equipment carrying people, or self-propelled equipment. Record existing controls separately from proposed controls and do not assume that any control is in place unless verified.

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Complete before new machinery or relevant work equipment is put into use in a maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England, where the equipment is acquired, installed, assembled or commissioned for use in Great Britain.

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Record pre-use acceptance checks for newly acquired or installed machinery and other work equipment in maintained and academy primary or secondary schools in England.

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To support the acceptance of new machinery for school work in Great Britain by checking the required marking, declaration of conformity and English-language instructions before commissioning.

16 sections · v1

Record inspection of pallets, skips, ladles and similar items used as non-permanent loads, including condition, defects, withdrawal from use and whether the item is safe to lift. Apply this record where such items are carried as loads rather than permanently attached lifting equipment.

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Inspect and record the condition, suitability, defects, withdrawal and maintenance actions for pallets, skips, ladles and similar items that are carried as loads rather than permanently attached lifting equipment.

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Guide a school that is establishing a health-surveillance scheme in obtaining and incorporating input from a competent occupational-health professional.

11 sections · v1

Record the identity and competence basis of the occupational-health professional involved, their advice or scheme-design input, the date and scope of that input, and the resulting health-surveillance arrangements. Use this record conditionally when a school establishes or revises a health-surveillance scheme and obtains input from a competent occupational-health professional.

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To help visit leaders in maintained and academy schools in England assess first-aid provision before educational visits and other off-site activities, identify additional equipment for specialised activities, provide a suitable travelling first-aid kit, and apply additional arrangements where early years education is involved.

21 sections · v1

To provide child-friendly routes for reporting online concerns, inappropriate contact or content, cyber crime and fraud; explain trusted-adult and school support; connect reports with safeguarding and child-protection processes; and set out arrangements when a concern follows an online-safety lesson or activity.

24 sections · v1

To help pupils, staff, parents and carers understand the school’s expectations for safe, responsible and respectful online behaviour, how concerns can be reported and responded to, and how online-safety teaching and support connect with school life and safeguarding.

25 sections · v1

To support maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England that include online-safety and online-harms teaching in relationships education, relationships and sex education, health education, computing or citizenship. The plan provides adaptable progression for age, development and pupil needs.

38 sections · v1

To support primary and secondary maintained schools and academies in England to plan age- and developmentally appropriate online-safety teaching where relevant relationships education, relationships and sex education, health education, computing or citizenship content is delivered.

36 sections · v1

To provide a conditional framework for a primary or secondary maintained school or academy in England to reflect online-safety principles in safeguarding, child-protection, behaviour and bullying arrangements; clarify local responsibilities; set expectations for staff, pupils and parents; establish reporting and escalation routes; and support communication and review.

32 sections · v1

Reusable, unscored register for identifying and managing safeguarding risks before online-safety lessons or related activities that may prompt disclosures or address sensitive online harms.

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Proportionate operational assurance of an online-safety education or whole-school programme in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England.

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To help pupils, staff and parents or carers identify how online concerns can be reported and supported, and to link those routes with the school's safeguarding and child-protection processes. This procedure is applicable, where adopted and adapted, to maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England. School-specific contacts, reporting routes and external support references must reflect the school's current safeguarding arrangements and the platforms or services relevant to pupils.

22 sections · v1

Help school staff understand why online-safety learning and resources should remain current and relevant to pupils, and how information available to the school can support review and timely adaptation of online-safety teaching or practice.

2 lessons · v1

To support primary and secondary maintained schools and academies in England, where applicable, to teach age-appropriate online safety and online harms through the relevant statutory relationships and health education provision.

11 sections · v1

Optional evidence record for online-safety policies, support and reporting mechanisms, staff training, teaching and learning, and whole-school community engagement and education. It is designed for senior leaders in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England that choose to record this evidence; an equivalent evidence record may be used instead.

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Optional structured record for governing-board or trustee consideration of online-safety policies, support and reporting mechanisms, staff training, teaching and learning, community engagement, evidence reviewed, actions agreed and completion status.

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Optional governance and assurance review for maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England. Use the checklist to structure discussion of online-safety provision, record evidence, and assign follow-up actions. Adapt it to the school's arrangements; it does not create a separate legal requirement.

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Optional guidance for governing boards or trustees of maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England. It provides a framework for supporting school leaders to keep children safe online, including review of online-safety policies and recording actions or reasonable decisions. It should be integrated with the school's existing safeguarding and governance arrangements and is not a separate statutory requirement.

23 sections · v1

To help staff in maintained and academy schools in England with EYFS provision understand when paediatric first-aid requirements apply, how to check availability and certificate arrangements, and how to control renewal and relevance of training. This is awareness material and does not provide first-aid treatment training or certify competence.

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To encourage parents and carers to notify the school whenever their child’s personal details or education arrangements change, using the school’s established communication channels.

12 sections · v1

Provide a reusable, unscored register for assessing vehicle and pedestrian movements at primary and secondary schools in England, including maintained and academy schools, where vehicle access, parking, playgrounds or routes used by staff, pupils or visitors are present. Record existing controls separately from proposed controls, together with remedial measures and changes to the site layout.

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To provide a procedure for authorised staff in England to check with the local authority before issuing a penalty notice, send copies of issued notices, retain transmission records, and apply the local authority’s current process for avoiding duplicate or inappropriate notices.

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Operationally monitor persistent and severe absence patterns, affected pupils and cohorts, common barriers, targeted-support decisions, relevant trust or federation comparisons, and escalation of emerging attendance concerns.

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Record evidence, barriers, targeted support, partner involvement, re-engagement, escalation and outcomes for pupils missing 10% or more of school, with prioritised and more intensive support for pupils absent for 50% or more of school.

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Record regular inspections of physical-education, sports and playground equipment, including condition, defects, restrictions, removal from use and repair or replacement actions.

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To provide a proportionate procedure for maintaining portable electrical equipment used in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England, by identifying equipment, selecting appropriate controls, arranging competent inspection or repair where needed, removing unsafe equipment from use and reviewing whether the maintenance scheme remains effective.

17 sections · v1

Reusable unscored risk register for assessing fire, burn and electrical-overload risks before portable heating equipment is used in a school, including equipment restrictions, electrical-load considerations, inspection arrangements and removal or isolation criteria.

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To provide a procedure for arranging and recording the examination of power presses and the inspection and testing of their guards and protection devices where a school provides or uses power presses for working on cold metal.

16 sections · v1

Reusable unscored risk register for assessing risks from power presses used for working on cold metal in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England. Use only where site evidence confirms that the equipment is a power press used for working on cold metal; ordinary school machinery must not be treated as a power press without supporting site evidence.

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To define the immediate controls for a powered gate or other work equipment where a dangerous condition or suspected safety defect is identified, including switching off, supervised safe-mode use, restriction of use, competent-person action, and return to service.

13 sections · v1

To provide a procedure for use by maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England to control access to school premises and to make, communicate and manage decisions to bar individuals where appropriate.

19 sections · v1

Inspect school corridors, stairs, passageways, external paths and applicable safety-critical glazing; record condition issues, obstructions, markings, protection, ownership, immediate controls and close-out evidence.

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Reusable unscored risk register for recording risks arising from school premises, plant, access routes, workplace fabric, external areas and their use by pupils, staff, visitors and contractors. The completed register should reflect the actual premises, hazards, responsibilities, controls and user groups.

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Reusable unscored risk register for identifying and managing risks to pupils, staff, visitors and contractors arising from school buildings, external areas, access routes, plant, workplace conditions and premises use. Complete for the premises and activities within the control of the responsible organisation, including where responsibility is shared or conditional.

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Support proportionate inspections of premises-related hazards by recording the inspection scope, responsible persons, findings, remedial actions and close-out.

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Identify applicable pressure systems, determine the proportionate arrangements required for safe design and use, and record written schemes, competent-person examinations, maintenance, defects and corrective actions where applicable.

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Help relevant staff in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England recognise risks from online extremist and terrorist content, understand how online radicalisation can occur, support pupil resilience, identify activity that may be criminal, and seek help through trusted school and external arrangements.

4 lessons · v1

To provide a controlled procedure for a maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England before considering deletion of a pupil’s name under grounds H or I following prolonged absence.

19 sections · v1

Record a pupil's departure or transfer, destination-school checks, common transfer file details and transmission confirmation, local-authority notification where required, notification dates and continuity-of-education follow-up.

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To provide schools in England with a clear process for recording concerns about possible reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), using visual identification guidance, obtaining confirmation from a suitably qualified building professional, and contacting the Department for Education customer help portal when RAAC is confirmed or advice is needed.

16 sections · v1

Reusable, unscored risk register for assessing whether a school meets the applicable radon measurement trigger, recording radon-area status, occupied-basement use, measurement results, exposure controls, mitigation decisions and applicable regulatory actions. Applicability remains conditional on the school's actual site and occupancy: use where the school is in a radon-affected area, or where a basement in a non-radon area is occupied for more than an average of one hour per week.

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Provide an unscored, reusable risk register for determining whether radon measurements are applicable, arranging measurements where required, assessing recorded results and documenting decisions or mitigation needed to limit exposure.

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To guide maintained and academy schools in England when assessing whether deletion of a pupil’s name from the admission register may proceed under return-after-leave, continuous-absence, compulsory-school-age or sixth-form grounds, while ensuring that reasonable support, health-related circumstances and possible attendance legal action are considered.

20 sections · v1

To provide a curriculum plan for teaching online safety and online harms through statutory relationships education, relationships and sex education, and health education, where applicable to {{school_name}}.

15 sections · v1

To set out how a maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England should keep records of pupil engagement with remote education and monitor that engagement when pupils receive remote education, while keeping those records distinct from formal attendance-register entries.

8 sections · v1

Record work-related deaths, specified injuries, diagnosed specified industrial diseases, dangerous occurrences and worker incapacitation, including incident details, classification, recording and reporting decisions, report references and resulting actions.

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To help maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England organise responsibility for RIDDOR reporting, assess whether a work-related incident may be reportable, provide a route for raising concerns, and record the basis of the decision. Applicability, the responsible person and the applicable RIDDOR criteria must be confirmed against the Regulations and current HSE material.

24 sections · v1

To help maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England prepare and submit RIDDOR notifications, retain submission evidence, link notifications to incident records, and review or amend notifications when relevant incident facts change.

20 sections · v1

This procedure supports maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England when preparing and submitting a RIDDOR notification for an incident that is reportable under the applicable criteria. It covers access to the relevant online form, answering submission questions, amending a notification where necessary, and linking the submission to the underlying incident record.

20 sections · v1

To provide a procedure for assessing whether an accident or incident may fall within applicable RIDDOR reporting requirements, assigning responsibility, preparing a submission where required, and retaining the decision and submission evidence.

22 sections · v1

Provide a reusable, unscored register for identifying and assessing breakage and impact risks affecting windows and transparent or translucent surfaces in walls, partitions, doors and gates, and for recording existing and proposed controls.

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Help school first-aiders recognise when a first-aid needs assessment indicates that additional training should be considered for the emergency administration of specified Schedule 19 prescription-only medication.

1 lesson · v1

To help school staff understand when additional training may be relevant for the emergency administration of Schedule 19 prescription-only medication, and how this differs from the general administration of prescription-only medication.

1 lesson · v1

To provide a framework for a maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England to plan for and respond to school-security and health-and-safety incidents, with scenarios selected to reflect the school's activities, premises and local risks.

27 sections · v1

To support proportionate work with {{pupil_name}} and {{parent_or_carer_names}} where the pupil’s SEND needs may not be adequately supported and this may be affecting attendance or continued participation, including regular review of support and, where significant unmet need exists for a pupil with an EHC plan, liaison with the local authority about whether an early review is needed.

19 sections · v1

To guide maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England that choose to identify a senior mental health lead, by describing the role's strategic oversight of the whole-school approach to mental health and wellbeing.

8 sections · v1

Record a serious allergy incident or near miss in a maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England, including the immediate response, relevant Individual Healthcare Plan and medication arrangements, investigation, learning, corrective actions, owners and completion evidence.

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To guide a maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England, where it is the responsible employer, when a child in its care suffers a serious accident, serious injury or death, including notification to the relevant local child protection agencies and action on advice received.

13 sections · v1

To support applicable maintained and academy schools in England that are registered early years providers for the relevant provision to identify serious accidents, illness, injury or death involving a child in their care, record the action taken, and notify the appropriate regulator within the applicable deadline.

12 sections · v1

To help a maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England record how additional or alternative provision is being considered and coordinated for a severely absent pupil, based on the pupil’s assessed barriers and needs.

29 sections · v1

Record the applicable attendance circumstance, supporting information, decision or provider notification, national attendance code, dates, additional absence classification and any resulting support or follow-up.

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To support accurate attendance-register recording for local-authority-arranged education, dual registration, medical or dental appointments, maternity leave, religious observance and illness in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England, where the relevant circumstance applies.

34 sections · v1

Record structural inspections, visible changes in condition, issues identified, professional advice, action owners, deadlines, interim controls and evidence that remedial actions were completed or managed.

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Reusable, unscored risk register for assessing structural-safety risks affecting school buildings in England. Complete for each relevant building or structure using the actual construction, use and environmental conditions, and record only controls and conditions that have been verified.

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To provide emergency actions for a maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England with a natural-gas or LPG installation when a gas leak is suspected.

9 sections · v1

To ensure that, where applicable, a maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England informs the local authority without delay whenever a pupil is suspended or permanently excluded, regardless of the length of the suspension, and records the notification and any available acknowledgement.

16 sections · v1

Record the suspension or permanent-exclusion decision, relevant pupil and exclusion details, notification to the local authority, transmission method, acknowledgement where available, and any failed-notification follow-up.

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Record each suspension or permanent exclusion notified to the local authority, including pupil and exclusion details, notification timing, content, acknowledgement where available, and follow-up actions.

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Reusable unscored risk register for schools in England that operate swimming or hydrotherapy pools. Use it to assess the whole user population, identify necessary controls and emergency arrangements, and review whether a fatal incident could occur quickly. Complete only where the school operates, or plans to operate, a swimming or hydrotherapy pool.

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Support a risk-based inspection of trees on school premises or within areas for which the school has responsibility, including recording condition, location, hazards, arboricultural advice and actions.

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To guide age- and developmentally appropriate teaching that helps pupils navigate the online world safely and confidently, regardless of the device, platform or app.

10 sections · v1

To provide a prompt response to every unexpected and unexplained absence of a pupil on the school roll, including enquiries to establish the pupil’s whereabouts, recording of attempts and escalation where there is reason to believe the pupil is in immediate danger or at risk of harm.

13 sections · v1

Record each unexpected and unexplained absence requiring enquiry, attempts to establish the pupil’s whereabouts, information obtained, safeguarding assessment, contact with parents or carers, escalation, and any referral to children’s social care or the police.

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To provide a clear response when additional asbestos or suspected asbestos is uncovered during authorised maintenance, construction, refurbishment or demolition work at a school.

15 sections · v1

To provide a consistent process for identifying when reasonable enquiries may be needed for a pupil who has not returned from leave or has had a continuous period of absence, working with the School Local Authority, recording enquiries and contact attempts, escalating concerns and documenting outcomes.

17 sections · v1

Record leave or continuous absence details, contact attempts, reasonable enquiries, information obtained, coordination with the School Local Authority, safeguarding or escalation decisions, and the outcome of an enquiry concerning a pupil who has not returned from leave or has a continuous period of absence.

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To provide a procedure for a maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England when a gas appliance is known or suspected to be unsafe, covering withdrawal from use, competent investigation, repair or removal, and confirmation of safe status before return to use.

16 sections · v1

Check the first-aid box in an applicable school minibus or larger passenger vehicle for clear marking, ready availability, good condition and the specified contents.

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Check each applicable minibus or larger passenger vehicle for a clearly marked, readily available first-aid box in good condition and containing the specified items.

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Record the weekly operational fire-alarm test, including the manual call point selected, test result, faults, immediate controls and escalation.

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To guide a maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England in embedding online-safety and online-harms education within school culture, ethos, environment, safeguarding practice, family and community partnerships, pupil engagement, peer support where used, and responses to emerging issues.

28 sections · v1

To provide a procedure for identifying work equipment and the school's ownership, operation or control responsibilities; assessing suitability and risks; arranging proportionate maintenance and inspection; controlling equipment supplied by other parties; reporting and isolating defects; and retaining evidence of applicable PUWER arrangements where school employees use work equipment or the school owns, operates or controls it.

29 sections · v1

Record the identification, isolation, assessment, corrective work, verification and authorisation of dangerous or defective work equipment or powered gates before any return to service.

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To provide a procedure for maintaining safe work equipment and responding to deterioration, defects or dangerous conditions at maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England where work equipment, powered gates, barriers or doors are used or controlled.

18 sections · v1

To provide a consistent procedure for identifying work equipment that a school owns, operates or controls, including equipment supplied by another party, assigning responsibilities, recording applicable PUWER arrangements, and retaining relevant conformity documentation where new machinery is placed on the Great Britain market for the school.

20 sections · v1

Record work-equipment identity, maintenance and inspection arrangements, findings, defects, isolation or removal from use, corrective actions and verification before equipment is returned to service.

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To support the selection and provision of suitable work equipment and the checking of relevant conformity information before new equipment is put into use.

24 sections · v1

Reusable, unscored risk register for assessing work-equipment risks in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England. Use it for equipment suitability, intended use, users, installation conditions, deterioration, inspection needs, maintenance arrangements, equipment supplied by others, defect controls and actions required to keep equipment safe.

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Reusable unscored risk register for assessing work equipment suitability, dangerous parts, access to danger zones, guarding, protective devices, use, inspection, maintenance, training and further actions in schools.

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Reusable, unscored register for assessing the suitability of work equipment for its intended use, workplace conditions and users; identifying equipment-specific hazards, restrictions and controls; and recording further actions for equipment owned, hired, supplied or controlled by the school. Use for school employees who use work equipment and preserve conditional applicability where equipment is supplied by another party or new machinery is placed on the Great Britain market.

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Reusable, unscored risk register for identifying work-at-height activities undertaken by school employees, the locations and tasks where a person could fall, people exposed, existing controls, proposed controls, safe-working arrangements, competence requirements, restrictions and actions needed to prevent falls. Complete and adapt it to the actual activities and premises before use.

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Record pre-use and periodic checks of work-at-height equipment and scaffolding arrangements, including defect controls and competence confirmation where scaffolding is erected or used.

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Reusable, unscored risk register for identifying work-at-height activities undertaken by employees and defining proportionate arrangements for preventing falls, including arrangements for safe working, competence and supervision. Use only where employees undertake work at height at or for the school.

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To provide conditional safe-working arrangements for employees undertaking work at height at a maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England, adapted to the school’s actual activities and premises.

19 sections · v1

To support the safe preparation and organisation of work-experience and work-based-learning placements by setting out arrangements for placement information, responsibilities, work-environment checks, introduction, instruction, supervision, communication and, where applicable, involvement of health and safety representatives.

21 sections · v1

Record the responsible person's assessment of whether an incident may be reportable under RIDDOR, the reporting decision, HSE notification details where applicable, incident circumstances and resulting actions.

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To help a school consider workplace mental-health information, training, occupational-health support, mental-health-trained first-aiders and employee support programmes following its employer first-aid needs assessment, and to record the options considered and the decision reached.

9 sections · v1

To guide a maintained or academy primary or secondary school in England when considering additional workplace mental-health support options following its employer first-aid needs assessment, and to record the decision reached.

24 sections · v1

To help staff in primary and secondary schools in England understand their responsibilities when employing or hosting people under 18, provide clear instruction and training, adjust supervision to experience and maturity, and recognise how health and safety representatives may support workplace introduction and ongoing training.

3 lessons · v1

To define how the school prepares and organises arrangements for under-18 workers, work-experience participants and apprentices, including work-based-learning placements, so that applicable placements provide a safe introduction to the work environment.

20 sections · v1

Record the preparation, organisation and safety arrangements for a young person's work-experience, work-based-learning, employment or apprenticeship placement hosted or arranged by a school.

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Reusable, unscored risk register for assessing health, safety and welfare risks for people under 18 who are employed or hosted by a maintained or academy school in England, including workers, work-experience participants and apprentices. Apply only where relevant to the person's role, workplace, activities and supervision needs.

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To provide a clear procedure for maintaining appropriate communication with a pupil’s Youth Offending Team worker while the pupil remains on the school roll in criminal-justice custody, including educational needs, progress, contact during the sentence and return-to-school resettlement planning.

22 sections · v1

Record contact with the Youth Offending Team worker, educational needs and progress discussed, information shared, sentence-period liaison, return-to-school planning and agreed follow-up actions.

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Record lifting-equipment identities, thorough-examination dates and results, examination defects, responsible recipients, notifications to owners or lessors, and reports to the relevant enforcing authority where required.

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School-Wide Health and Safety Risk Assessment

Reusable, unscored register for identifying, documenting and managing applicable school-wide health and safety risks in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England. Use only for risk topics relevant to the school's premises, activities and workforce; it is distinct from optional ordinary classroom checklist reviews.

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To describe the strategic oversight role of the senior mental health lead for the whole-school approach to mental health and wellbeing, where a maintained or academy school in England chooses to identify such a lead.

10 sections · v1

Serious Classroom Incident Escalation Briefing

Help teaching, support and premises staff in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England recognise the need to bring a serious classroom incident to their employer's attention immediately.

1 lesson · v1

Serious Classroom Incident Report Form

Capture serious classroom incident details, immediate escalation, responsible contacts and follow-up actions for staff in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England where a serious classroom incident requires prompt reporting to the employer.

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Serious Classroom Incident Reporting Procedure

To help staff in applicable schools bring serious classroom incidents to the attention of their employer straight away.

5 sections · v1

Specialist Classroom and Facility Activity Risk Register

Reusable, unscored risk register for identifying hazards, recording verified existing controls, and defining proposed controls for specialist classrooms and facilities. Use separate entries for the activities, equipment and substances relevant to each facility.

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Help school staff in England understand the health-and-safety information and training relevant to their work, their everyday employee duties, and when additional or specific training may be needed.

3 lessons · v1

To help staff in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England understand their health and safety responsibilities, recognise the importance of communicated site risks and controls, cooperate with others, and identify when role-appropriate training, competence and local reporting arrangements are needed.

3 lessons · v1

Reusable unscored register for assessing and managing potential asbestos risks associated with system-built school structures, including structural columns, panel infill and other system-building components. Applicability remains conditional where the premises are confirmed as system-built or where construction status is unknown and requires confirmation.

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Use when a school undertakes an off-site activity or educational visit requiring travelling first-aid provision. Check that the kit matches the activity assessment, is accessible and suitable for the group and activity, and record corrective actions before departure.

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To help maintained and academy schools in England select or provide work equipment by considering its intended purpose, workplace conditions and health and safety risks, and to restrict equipment to suitable uses through local instructions and controls.

13 sections · v1

To provide a consistent process for selecting and providing work equipment where a school in England provides or uses equipment at work, so that the equipment is suitable for the intended job and risks arising from its use are prevented or controlled.

17 sections · v1

Record and support the review and reporting workflow for work-related injuries and accidents involving staff or children in maintained and academy primary and secondary schools in England.

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Record the receiving or pre-use visual check of new portable electrical equipment, identify visible damage before use, prevent damaged equipment from being used, and record defects and resulting actions.

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To help a school that chooses to use records or labels monitor and review the effectiveness of its portable electrical equipment maintenance scheme.

10 sections · v1

Record the agreed or notified starting day, the pupil's failure to attend, contact and follow-up attempts, the reason established, any admission-register action, and resulting safeguarding or attendance follow-up.

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To set a consistent register-opening period for every session and establish expectations for discouraging late arrival and seeking explanations from parents.

8 sections · v1