School Security and Emergency Response Plan

This plan is intended for use by [school name], a [school type] school in England. It applies where the school has adopted it and should be adapted to reflect the school's activities, premises and local risks.

Purpose and scope

The school should have plans in place to enable it to manage and respond to incidents related to school security. This plan provides a single framework for school-security and health-and-safety incidents, including serious injury, significant property damage, criminal activity, severe weather, public-health incidents and the effects of a disaster in the local community.

The plan should be read with the school's other relevant plans and procedures. The school may include procedures for controlling access to, and barring individuals from, school premises within this plan or may address those matters in another plan or procedure.

School details

School: [school name]. Main premises: [main school premises]. Plan owner: [plan owner role]. Date adopted: [adoption date].

Scenarios covered

The school should consider the following emergency scenarios when selecting the situations covered by its arrangements:

• serious injury to a pupil or member of staff, for example following a transport accident;

• significant damage to school property, for example following a fire;

• criminal activity, for example a bomb threat;

• severe weather, for example flooding;

• public-health incidents, for example a flu pandemic; and

• the effects of a disaster in the local community.

Local application

The scenarios selected for this plan are: [selected emergency scenarios]. They have been selected to reflect [school name]'s activities, premises and local risks.

For each selected scenario, the school should identify the applicable procedure or response arrangement, the responsible role, and the location of the current information needed to manage the incident.

Security and access arrangements

The school's arrangements for controlling access to and barring individuals from school premises are set out in [access and barring procedure].

Where those arrangements are included in this plan, they are located at [access and barring section]. Where they are maintained separately, this plan should be read with that procedure.

Plan use

When an incident occurs, the school's response should follow the applicable procedure identified for the relevant scenario. The responsible role for coordinating use of this plan is [incident coordinator role].

The contact arrangements for the school and relevant external support are recorded at [emergency contacts location].

Review and maintenance

This plan should be reviewed when the school's activities, premises or local risks change, and otherwise in accordance with the school's arrangements at [plan review arrangement].

The current version of the plan is held at [plan storage location].