To ensure, in relation to Facilities, that:

• School buildings and grounds are maintained through:

  • Planned Preventative Maintenance which includes internal and external services inspections and maintaining maintenance contracts

  • Having suitable repair reporting protocols in place

  • Maintaining and prioritising building improvements through maintaining the Narrative for Success and list of projects being worked on in this year

  • Having School Facilities Leads that support this process

  • Applying for Conditions Improvement Funding through the DfE

  • Maintaining a Trust Estate Vision, Strategy and Asset Management Plan

  • Ensuring budgets are managed effectively

• Energy is effectively managed through:

  • Looking for best value energy contracts

  • Monitoring consumption to see where energy saving is needed

  • Reducing energy consumption

  • Monitoring and increasing how much consumed energy comes from renewable sources

• Schools have appropriate access controls

• All staff and students have the technology they need to be able to access the curriculum and carry out their roles and responsibilities 

  • IT support SMAP

  • IT Basecamp

• Catering is to a high standard in all schools:

  • Food hygiene is high

  • Students enjoy their lunches

• Cleaning is appropriate across the schools

• The Trust has a Climate Action Plan and schools have actions they want to take

• The Trust has a Waste Management Plan and schools have actions they want to take

To ensure, in relation to Risk Management, that:

• A sustainable Risk Management System is in place including a health and safety policy which assists and promotes a safe culture across our Trust. User Guides and Protocols are set up to assist this

• Staff, student and visitor incident reporting protocols are in place and schools are:

  • Engaging with this and recording all types of incidents including near misses

  • Investigating why individual incidents happen, where patterns are and take actions

  • Reporting any RIDDOR incidents 

• Emergency procedures are in place, practised and actions are taken by all schools, including Fire and lockdown.

• Appropriate Risk Assessments are in place at schools and staff are engaging with these

• Training is completed and recorded

• Contractor performance is monitored and actions taken ensuring work is completed safely and to a good standard

• Health & safety checks are completed through:

  • H & S checklist which should be completed at least yearly

  • Annual audits are completed yearly

  • Grounds inspections are completed monthly and any issues are reported

• Procedures for dealing with staff health / welfare concerns are in place

  • Employee Assistance Programme in place and being engaged with

  • Annual flu vaccinations are offered to all staff

  • Staff Check In Surveys are sent out to all staff and the Heads & the Executive Team review this

• A clear and effective Business Continuity Plan is in place and reviewed yearly

• A Trust Letting policy is in place and all lettings have agreements in place. (sheet to be created holding links to all agreements and added here along with policy)