Health and Safety
Executive / Commission
Risk management
The new Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) is working with HSE, other government departments, the Independent Review Unit and Unions to ensure joined up thinking and action across government on health and safety in schools.
The forum set up to take this work forward will look to embed the principles of sensible risk management to improve the efficiency and effectiveness with which schools use their resources, allowing them to invest in better outcomes for children and drive up standards. This means focussing on the real issues, allowing important recreational and learning activities to take place, cutting unnecessary form filling and not using resources to deal with trivial risks.
The forum is looking to share good practice and encourage innovative ways of working to ensure that all schools develop a sensible approach to health and safety.
DCSF currently have two documents which are of interest with regard to this work:
The Act regulates the activities of claims management companies for the first time. Importantly, it also reminds courts that when they are deciding a claim for damages, they can take into account whether their decision might prevent or impede desirable activities taking place in future. It is one initiative amongst many across government aimed at discouraging frivolous claims, whilst at the same time improving access to compensation for those with good, justified claims.
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