Policies templates

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.

11 sections · 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.

18 sections · v1

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

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

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 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.

13 sections · 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.

32 sections · v1

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

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.

13 sections · v1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

15 sections · v1

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

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.

12 sections · v1

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

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.

31 sections · v1

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

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.

10 sections · v1

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.

19 sections · v1

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.

11 sections · v1

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.

16 sections · v1

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

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

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

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

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 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

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.

19 sections · v1

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

10 sections · v1

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

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.

23 sections · v1

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

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.

16 sections · v1

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

12 sections · v1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

6 sections · v1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

11 sections · v1

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

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

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 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 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

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.

12 sections · v1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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 Reporting Procedure

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

5 sections · v1

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

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

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