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F on the same site at an estimated cost of £5.5 million and with a formal commitment to installing sprinklers. The cost of installing sprinklers in the original school building would have been significantly less, at an estimated cost of between £65K–£84K.

One evening in October 2018, an electrical fault in a washing machine caused a fire at Outwood Academy Bydales in Marske, North Yorkshire. The school had sprinklers installed. Although two fire engines responded, on their arrival the sprinkler system had activated and had already extinguished the fire. The school was open as usual the next day, and the result was minimal fire damage and minimal impact on students, staff, and the community.

Buildings more at risk

Research by Zurich found that the average fire risk for schools is almost double that of other non-residential buildings. Across England in 2021-22, Home Office figures have shown that 219 primary and secondary schools were damaged by fire. This is a 35 per cent increase on the previous year.

The Department for Education held its consultation ‘Building Bulletin 100: Fire Safety E

F Design for Schools’ (BB100) in 2021, and NFCC submitted a consultation response outlining our position. The Department is currently analysing feedback and has not published a response or updated the guidance.

In its consultation, the Department proposed the mandatory installation of sprinklers in new schools over 11 metres in height. However, only a small number of schools currently meet this threshold. Fires don’t discriminate based on building height, so the requirement for sprinklers should be extended to include all new and substantially refurbished schools regardless of height. Some schools are of particular risk, irrespective of height, such as older schools, secondary schools with more complex and dangerous equipment, boarding schools, SEN schools which would need to find alternative accommodation with specialist facilities, as well as bigger schools, including those with a canteen.

The proposals outlined in the 2021 BB100 consultation would actually result in a lowering of standards compared to the 2007 guidance that preceded it. This earlier guidance stated that “all new schools should have fire sprinklers installed except in a few low risk schools”. It’s worth highlighting that it is estimated that currently only 15 per cent of new schools in England are being built with sprinklers, yet in 2007, 70 per cent of new schools has sprinklers installed. NFCC believe that these proposals represent a retrograde step and that we should instead be improving fire protection in our schools, so we urge the government to bring forward more robust guidance. An important element of this will be ensuring that school building designers and developers cannot sidestep BB100 and improvements such as sprinklers and evacuation lifts. This will require the government to mandate the use of design guidance in all new school buildings, preventing designers and developers from circumventing BB100. This would close the loophole by which they can instead use Statutory Guidance Fire safety: Approved Document B or BS 9999: Code of practice for fire safety in the design, management and use of buildings, as these do not take account of the impact of school fires on students’ education, the wider community, or public asset protection.

A post-code lottery

We have previously highlighted the current ‘post code lottery’ in sprinkler requirements and have advocated for a streamlined position across the whole of the UK. Unlike the current situation in England, both Scotland and Wales have made sprinkler installation mandatory in all schools, regardless of height. NFCC believe that this is an opportunity for the government to close the current loopholes, make sprinklers mandatory in all new and substantially refurbished schools, and provide schools in England with an equal level of fire protection as in other parts of the UK. L www.nationalfirechiefs.org.uk

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