Health & Safety for Governors of Maintained, Community & Voluntary Controlled Schools (G25-HSM-VT-01)

10/06/2025 in Virtual Enquire about Course

Duration: 2 hours

Time: 19:00 - 21:00

17 places available

Price: £135

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Course description

These sessions will be delivered by colleagues from the WCC Corporate Health & Safety Team.

FOR ALL SCHOOLS WHERE WCC IS THE EMPLOYER, i.e., community and voluntary controlled schools, community special schools and maintained nursery schools.   

The Local Authority recognises the important part that governors play in the strategic running of schools. Governing boards, having control of school premises, must take reasonable steps to ensure the health and safety of the school environment, buildings and equipment, ensuring that adequate arrangements are in place in line with policies and procedures.

The school governor's role in health and safety training has been designed to ensure governors have sufficient knowledge and a reasonable overview of current health and safety requirements in schools, to effectively support the Headteacher and senior leadership team.

To ensure your governing board is kept up to date with current health and safety legislation and standards in schools, it is strongly recommended that the Chair and/or named governor with Health and Safety responsibility attends this traning course.

Please note that governors of schools where the school is the employer (i.e. academies, foundation, voluntary aided and trust schools) should instead undertake the 'Health & Safety for Governors of Academy, Foundation, Voluntary-Aided and Trust Schools' training. For details of this training course, please contact governors@warwickshire.gov.uk.