DfE new advice on health and safety in schools

The recently-published DfE advice on health and safety strongly emphasizes that schools should use their own common sense and not rely upon government guidance.

However, laudable as the reduction in the size of guidance to eight pages is, there are significant issues that schools will now need to take a view on. In this detailed look at the advice we examine in detail the following:

• Risk Assessments
• ‘One-off’ Parental Consent forms
• Overseas trips
• Which activities need specific written risk assessments
• Standard of proof

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