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Health & Safety and Fire Support for Schools & Trusts
Expert health and safety for schools and trusts, helping you manage risk, meet your responsibilities and keep people safe.
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Health and Safety Service
Know where your risks are. Know what needs to happen next. Our expert team gives schools and MATs the advice, oversight and ongoing support to manage health and safety effectively and keep compliance moving forward.
Fire Risk Assessments
Award-winning fire safety expertise, backed by BAFE certification and a deep understanding of school environments. Our Fire Risk Assessments consider the unique risks of your site, giving you clear findings and practical actions to keep your school safe.
MAT Audits & Due Diligence
Get a clear view of health and safety across your trust. Our MAT audits and due diligence reviews identify compliance gaps, highlight risks and provide practical recommendations to support informed decision-making.
Stronger health and safety starts with knowing your risks.
Managing health and safety in schools means balancing legal responsibilities with the everyday demands of a busy education setting.
Our specialist team helps schools and trusts identify risks, meet their responsibilities and take action, from health and safety compliance and risk assessments to fire safety, accident investigations and staff training.
For MATs, we provide trust-wide assurance through audits and due diligence, helping leaders understand where risks sit across their schools and where action may be needed
Why Schools & Trusts choose Judicium...
- Award-winning health and safety expertise, recognised for excellence across education settings
- Experienced H&S specialists who understand the realities and risks schools face every day
- Dedicated IOSH-qualified advisers with BAFE-certified fire safety expertise when you need it
- Clear, actionable advice that turns complex requirements into practical next steps
- Proactive support helps identify risks early and prevent issues from becoming bigger problems
- Independent insight that strengthens compliance, accountability and decision-making
- Consistent support across schools, academies and multi-academy trusts, however complex your needs
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A leading tool for senior school and MAT leaders.
One Dashboard.
Complete visibility.
JEDU brings health, safety and fire audits, actions, and progress into a single intuitive dashboard, giving schools and trusts complete visibility of compliance.
Monitor risk, prioritise improvements and demonstrate strong governance across every school.
Judicium’s FREE Sofa Sessions
Join us 'on the sofa' where we talk frankly with experts about the real issues facing education.
With many attendees from across the country bringing ideas, together, we can find effective solutions to challenging conversations!
“No script, no jargon... real conversation!”
- Informal conversations hosted by Judicium Education with experts discussing real issues in education.
- Thousands of peers from across the UK sharing ideas and experiences.
- A collective movement focused on finding effective answers to difficult conversations.
Build Stronger Health and Safety Knowledge
Strengthen your team’s health and safety knowledge with practical, CPD-accredited training designed specifically for schools and trusts.
From leading health and safety and risk assessment to asbestos, COSHH and educational visits, our expert-led sessions help staff understand their responsibilities and put good practice into action.
- CPD-accredited courses for education professionals
- Live and on-demand training options
- Specialist topics for school leaders, premises teams and staff
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Frequently asked questions about School & MAT Health & Safety and Fire
The employer has overall responsibility for health and safety in schools. Depending on the school type, this may sit with the local authority, governing body or academy trust. Day-to-day responsibilities are usually delegated to school leaders and other competent staff.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is the main enforcing authority for most health and safety matters in schools. Local authorities may also have enforcement responsibilities in certain circumstances.
Effective health and safety helps protect pupils, staff and visitors, reduce avoidable risks and meet legal responsibilities. It also supports a safe environment where schools can focus on teaching and learning.
Schools should use a combination of risk assessments, inspections, audits, incident reporting, training and regular reviews to monitor health and safety. Policies and controls should be updated when risks, activities or circumstances change.
A school health and safety policy should set out how health and safety is managed, including responsibilities, arrangements and procedures for controlling risks. It should be appropriate to the school and regularly reviewed to remain effective.
External expertise can provide valuable assurance where schools lack specialist knowledge, need an independent review or are managing complex risks. For MATs, external audits can also provide a clearer view of health and safety across multiple schools.