Keeping Children Safe In Schools
Posted October 8th, 2009 | No Comments
Quite rightly, one of the areas OFSTED are focusing on is the security of our children in schools. They are going to great lengths to ensure schools are identifying potential areas where inadequate security could lead to an opportunist gaining access and compromising the safety of staff and children.
“A few timely precautions will often prevent embarrassment at inspection, or worse exposing a child to danger”
While most schools do their best to create a secure environment for their pupils, the conflict between safety and security often presents great challenges.
Doors providing access to and from playground areas at play time could be left insecure all day, as often these doors require the action of needing to be physically locked by staff during lesson time, which means they may be forgotton.
UPVC doors, which can be notoriously difficult to fit additional security or self closing mechanisms to, can be opened and left insecure by unsuspecting pupils.
Head teachers or site managers should engage the services of a Security Specialist, Master Locksmith or other appropriately approved Security Consultant, who would carry out a security audit or survey, often FREE OF CHARGE and make recommendations and give priced quotations for the appropriate level of work to be carried out to make their school safe for pupils and staff as well as meeting OFSTED inspection guidelines
There are solutions to most security issues faced in schools in the current climate, although some are not widely recognised this includes a new and innovative product for uPVC doors.
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