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Ensuring Playground Safety: UK Regulations and Guidelines

Discover the importance of playground safety and explore the regulations and guidelines in the UK to ensure a safe and enjoyable playtime for children.

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PDNS for schools

The National Cyber Security Centre

The NCSC’s ‘Protective Domain Name Service for Schools’ has been scaled up to protect various organisations. The PDNS for schools is a service provided by the NCSC designed to protect schools from a plethora of cyber...

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Data protection in schools

Department for Education update: March. 2025

The Department for Education recently updated its guidance on record keeping and management. The Data Protection Act 2018 and UK GDPR mandate that data retention should only be for as long as needed. You...

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Thousands of children injured near schools every year.

Thousands of children injured near UK schools

Here are some alarming statistics to contemplate before we get into the blog:

🚨- 9 children are harmed on UK roads every day.

🚨- 3,402 children aged seven and under were killed or injured in 2022.

🚨- 1,190...

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Reasonable force requirement update from the Department for Education

Department for Education update: Sept. 2025

Under new government guidance, schools must record every "significant" use of reasonable force against pupils and report them to parents "as soon as practicable."

We're not there yet (the DfE is still...

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First aid in school: treating a minor head injury.

Bumped heads (minor head injuries) are one of the most common injuries recorded in primary schools, with an increased risk of injury during playtimes, lunchtimes, and PE lessons. Schools are required to have designated first aiders trained and prepared...

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Five Benefits of Electronic Medical Records vs. Paper Medical Records

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The benefits of a digital accident book

Still using paper health and medication records in your school? Now may be the time to go digital. There are many advantages to swapping from paper to online health management solutions and doing so is much simpler and quicker than you might think.

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First Aid Risk Assessment 2025: Why, When and How.

School leaders are responsible for meeting the minimum statutory requirement for first aid. Included in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 , Headteachers and MAT CEOs are tasked with ensuring ‘reasonable precautions’ are taken to identify health and...

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Flexi-schooling and the impact on health and safety management.

What is 'Flexi-schooling'?

The inspectorate’s annual report warns of a "rise in unorthodox patterns in education."

'Flexi-schooling' is certainly a new phenomenon that is open to interpretation. So, what are the impacts?