Role of Buckinghamshire Council
Last updated:As employer, Buckinghamshire Council has the power to ensure that its health and safety policy and procedures are carried out in-school and on all school activities.
The Council will provide advice, guidance, and competent support as well as learning and development opportunities to school staff and Governors to enable them to manage health and safety on behalf of the Council.
The Council will also monitor establishments where it is the employer to ensure required standards are reached and will take the necessary action where they are not.
Where the Council believes the health and safety of anyone on-site, or of anybody engaged on school activities off-site, is at risk it can instruct the governing body and Headteacher to take remedial action.
The instruction can specify action to be taken or it can require the governing body and headteacher to comply with a specific aspect of the Council's health and safety policies.