Explore the Updates and New Additions to the Handsam Library
Updated Quick Guides and Policies
Handsam would like to make you aware of the new or updated Quick Guides you can now access through our Quick Guide Library. We respond to the needs of our customers, through safety issues we encounter on audits or direct requests for content on particular subjects when expanding our resources. This allows us to continue to grow our library around the direct compliance needs of our clients.
PLEASE NOTE THAT POLICIES ARE NOT A PART OF THE "QUICK GUIDES" PACKAGE AND UNLESS THEY ARE COVERED IN YOUR SUBSCRIPTION, THEY MUST BE PURCHASED SEPARATELY.
For more information, contact us on 03332 070737 or email info@handsam.co.uk to find out more.
NEW: RAS84 Hosting a Work Experience Placement
Employers who provide work experience placements are required by the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations to carry out a risk assessment for all students on work experience before they start work. The risk assessment must include specific factors such as their immaturity, inexperience and lack of awareness. The employer must introduce measures to eliminate or control the risks and provide appropriate training and supervision.
Students on work experience have the same duties as employees. They must take reasonable care of their own health and safety and of other people who may be affected by their actions, and they must cooperate with the employer providing the placement.
The DfE statutory guidance Keeping Children Safe in Education contains a section on ‘Adults Who Supervise Children on Work Experience’. The guidance states: “Schools and colleges organising work experience placements should ensure that policies and procedures are in place to protect children from harm”.
NEW: RAS85 Hire of School Buildings for an Unsupervised Hirer
Community use of school sites can benefit schools, their pupils and their parents. Schools offering community facilities and services may benefit from improved behaviour and attendance. Such arrangements can also enable schools to make the best use of their premises, which may otherwise be underused before and after the school day and in school holidays. Subject to some LA powers, governing bodies can normally charge for the provision of community facilities and services, or for renting or letting facilities to voluntary groups, which can provide a useful revenue stream.
Examples of community provision by maintained schools include nurseries, children’s centres, after-school clubs, adult education, out-of-school childcare (including breakfast clubs and holiday care), and sport and youth clubs.
UPDATED: Quick Guides
Many of our Guides have been significantly updated. They include:
CU01: The School Curriculum
CU03: Early Years Foundation Stage
CU04: Careers Guidance
CU05: Gifted and Talented Pupils Guidance
CU07: National Citizen Service
PM01: Performance Management (Appraisal)
PM02: Professional Standards
UPDATED POLICIES
T-POL-CU02: Curriculum Policy
T-POL-CP03: Departmental Health and Safety Policy
T-POL-CP05 Example Remote Learning Policy
T-POL-CP04: Sex and Relationship Education Policy
T-POL-PEG01: Physical Education Policy
T-POL-SC01: Science Department Policy
Find out more about our Quick Guides and Policies
The Handsam Quick Guides Library contains over 900 documents with all the relevant information, exemplars, checklists and guidance notes you need to ensure you're up to date, including all the DfE, HSE and other formal resources all in one place. It's unique!
Handsam also offers various different policies packages, including providing you with easy-to-use templates for you to tailor yourselves, reviewing your existing policies, or working with you to deliver fully bespoke policies for your school, college or MAT.
If you're not a Handsam client, or you don't buy our Quick Guides or one of our Policies packages, please contact us to discuss how we can help to keep your organisation compliant.