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    • Last updated: June 2024

      A critical incident may be defined as an incident or situation involving trauma, fatality or serious injury to an individual or serious damage to property. By its very nature such an incident is sudden, unpredictable and outside the range of normal...
    • Last updated: June 2024

      In the event of a critical incident please inform the Children’s Services as soon as possible. The first two names on the contact list are your initial contacts. However, if you are unable to get a response please continue down the list using...
    • Last updated: June 2024

      Action will depend on the nature of the incident.Ensure a full log is kept of all actions taken as they happen as well as information received.Ensure that all staff and pupils are in a place of safety and securityHave emergency services been called?...
    • Last updated: June 2024

      Stage 1 Initial responseOpen and continue to maintain a personal log of all factual information received, actions taken and the time and date of these events. This is good practice but is essential for many reasons, including the need to give...
    • Last updated: June 2024

      IncidentDesignated officer or senior officerChecklist notificationLevel 1 Critical incidentA critical incident, which may include a fatality (but not to a member of the school community) an where the incident is not the responsibility of LA/ school...
    • Last updated: June 2024

      As most recent disasters have shown, the response of the news media is likely to be quick with a large number of personnel and equipment. It is usually the police who are responsible for coordination of the emergency service response to a major...
    • Last updated: June 2024

      The role and educational psychologists trainingAll Educational Psychologists (EPs) have an honours degree in Psychology, are qualified and experienced teachers and have a Masters degree in Educational Psychology. They are thus in a unique position...
    • Last updated: August 2023

      The following guidance notes have been reproduced in a modified form from Ealing’s Guidelines and Policy for Schools on Personal and Social Education.“A child can live through anything so long as he or she is told the truth and is...
    • Last updated: June 2024

      Getting back to normalThe effects of some incidents can reverberate for years. Professor Yule, in his very useful book, ‘Wise before the Event’, points out that tragedies can bring people together. In some schools the experience is so...
    • Last updated: August 2023

      Guidance in relation to critical incidents occurring on a school tripSchool trips, whether one-day, residential, local or further afield should be carefully planned to reduce the possibility of incidents or difficulties occurring. Here are the code...

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