Governor Services

HEALTH & SAFETY SUPPORT

Full compliance health check Detailed report Support and advice service Safety Management System HEALTH & SAFETY SUPPORT

Protecting your learning environment

It is vital that teachers, governors and school leaders understand, and can respond effectively to, the range of situations facing children and young people today.

An important responsibility for headteachers, school business managers and other senior leaders is to ensure their school is compliant and up-to-date with the latest legislation and statutory guidance. Ensuring that you are up-to-date with changes to the legal and regulatory compliance framework for schools has increasingly become a full-time job.

School safety is important to protect staff and pupils in a school from incidents of abuse or any form of violence. School premises need to be a safe learning environment and this ensures the overall development of each child.

Health, safety and welfare is an important part of school life and keeping children and adults safe is essential within our teaching and learning environments. It is important that children learn to understand and manage day-to-day risks, whilst enhancing learning and innovation. This also protects the well-being of employers, visitors and the public.

Benefits Products

The health and safety service is important and helps schools establish and fill gaps around process, rules and procedures in order to function effectively and ensure everyone is connected so that the school meets its statutory obligations and other requirements.

Contract types

• Full compliance health check

• A detailed report with preventative measures

• Providing support, advice and assistance

• Helpdesk via telephone and email

• Relevant briefing or training

• Bespoke project: one-off piece of work personalised to your requirements

• Bespoke training and consultancy

• Service Level Agreement: annual agreement to support on an ongoing basis

PROCUREMENT & CONTRACTING SUPPORT

Monitoring visit Helpdesk advice and guidance Due diligence checks Framework providers signposting PROCUREMENT & CONTRACTING SUPPORT

Helping you achieve value for money in your procurement process

Schools have a duty to make sure they obtain the best value for money from any contracts they enter into. Your school could save money by using existing arrangements/frameworks or teaming up with other schools to increase your purchasing power. Procurement will ensure that the money is spent in a way that is fair, open and good value for money. This also means that any procurement decisions must be fair and open.

Benefits

Procurement and contracting are essential parts of a school’s daily operation and carried out with the right support it can save schools money. The Education Space Procurement and Contracting Service will partner up with a lead in your school to ensure you get the best deal for goods and services.

As a not-for-profit, schools owned company we will work for the benefit of the school and ensure value for money is delivered.

Products

• Helpdesk service to provide advice and guidance on day-to-day and operational issues via telephone and email

• An annual visit to monitor the school’s procurement arrangements.

• Remote due diligence checks to ensure that the school is following appropriate procurement procedures

• Liaison with appropriate framework providers

• Provision of a procurement toolkit and a template procurement policy

Contract types

• Bespoke project: one-off piece of work personalised to your requirements

• Bespoke training and consultancy

• Service Level Agreement: annual agreement to support on an ongoing basis