School Estate Management Failures
Failures in maintaining school buildings and estates to required standards, often due to insufficient guidance, training, or funding.
4 items
1 source
2 inquiries
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School Estate Management Failures has been flagged across 1 independent accountability source:
4 inquiry recs
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Inquiry Recommendations (4)
SP21 — School monitoring and filtering systems guidance
Recommendation: The Department for Education should review and strengthen its guidance to schools on monitoring and filtering systems, including ensuring that the systems used are appropriate and adequate from a technical perspective. The department should ensure schools understand these requirements and …
Gov response: The Department for Education (DfE) is the lead department and expects to complete implementation of this recommendation in mid-2027. Progress and next steps: - DfE has proposed an update to Keeping Children Safe in Education …
Accepted
In progress
SP11 — Out-of-school settings guidance update
Recommendation: The Department for Education should update the out‑of‑school settings guidance by reviewing the health and safety section to ensure terminology is clear and consistent, particularly regarding emergency plans and fire/evacuation plans for smaller providers. The guidance should also be updated …
Gov response: The Department for Education (DfE) is the lead department and expects to complete the implementation of this recommendation by late 2026. Progress and next steps: - DfE will review the existing safeguarding policy following the …
Accepted
In progress
DUNB-26 — Extend violence guidance to encompass safety of entire school population
Recommendation: It is desirable that the guidance provided by the Education Service Advisory Committee in regard to violence to staff in the education sector should be extended to encompass the safety and protection of the school population as a whole (para …
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DUNB-25 — Prepare school safety strategy and action plan protecting against violence
Recommendation: Those who have the legal responsibility for the health and safety of the teaching staff and pupils at school should prepare a safety strategy for the protection of the school population against violence, together with an action plan for implementing …
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