Monitoring your school's emergency or critical incident plan
Help your school prepare for emergencies by reviewing its emergency or critical incident plan. All schools should have one that includes how they'll respond to various significant incidents, such as an outbreak of acute respiratory disease.
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Key things to know about your school's emergency plan
All schools should have an emergency plan (also called a critical incident plan), which focuses on:
- Minimising disruption to pupils' education
- Maximising the number of pupils receiving face-to-face provision
- Helping staff respond effectively to an emergency on site or during an educational visit
This is explained on page 5 of the Department for Education (DfE)’s non-statutory emergency planning and response guidance.
Your school must also comply with legal requirements, including health and safety law, and statutory requirements.
Instead, your school leaders can include your school's planned response to a severe outbreak of COVID-19 in your school's emergency plan, which should include their plans for responding to any serious public health incidents. However, they're free to keep this separate if they'd
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