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RISK MANAGEMENT & SAFEGUARDING FOR SCHOOLS

IT’S NO WONDER THOSE LOOKING AFTER RISK AND ASSURANCE SOMETIMES HAVE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS… CATALYST RISK MANAGEMENT IS THE ANSWER.

Health and safety, compliance, and risk management; the list of issues you need to keep on top of in your school or MAT is endless.

However, worrying about what might go wrong or get missed is not a strategy. Nobody can be an expert in everything, but our experienced risk and compliance team can help.

Risk to the core

Catalyst Risk identifies and covers every concern

  • Governance
  • Financial and legal compliance
  • Risk management
  • Internal scrutiny and cyber security
  • Health and safety checks
  • GDPR, DBS, SCR
  • School trips and visits
  • Accident reporting
  • Fire security
  • Visitor access
  • Buildings and maintenance
We've got this

A healthy, happy and safe school. Restful, worry-free nights for you!

Our experts will help you navigate, understand and manage risk, compliance and assurance in your school or trust. We have all the training, guidance and policy advice you will ever need, all backed up by our experts’ deep understanding and experience. Allowing you to focus elsewhere.

School Governance Services

Our experienced team of governance professionals can provide specialist advice and guidance to support your governing body. We offer both in-school support and readily available advice and guidance service to enable your governing body to carry out its duties effectively.

Educational
Visits

Our experienced Educational Visits team can support your school in providing a safe environment for children to learn outside of the classroom, one which meets national health and safety standards. We offer guidance on the effective management of outdoor learning, off-site visits and learning outside of the classroom.

Policy and Document Bank

 
Over 50 statutory and advisory policies and documents

Over 50 statutory and advisory policies and documents written by education experts.

Easily editable documents

Easily editable documents which you can tailor to your setting.

Proactive alerts on legislation changes

Proactive alerts on legislation changes that affect your school or trust’s policies.

Policy and document tracker

Policy and document tracker to self-audit and monitor reviews, renewals, and approvals of policies.

Internal Audits

Internal Scrutiny

Our team comprises professionally qualified experts from across all areas of an educational setting. We offer a breadth of internal scrutiny covering banking and payroll to safeguarding, health and safety, curriculum, and more. Our internal scrutiny programme guarantees your board that they have risks covered, and a summary report is provided to submit with your annual accounts.

Training Opportunities

Mental Health

Our courses provide delegates with an understanding of common mental health disorders, what causes them, how to spot someone suffering with them and the various ways in which help and support can be accessed from specialist services. Our courses include Mental Health at Work (QNUK), Mental Health Awareness (QNUK) and Awareness of Young People’s Mental Health.

Accidents, Incidents, Risk and Prevention

Our training courses provide delegates with an understanding of a range of accidents, incidents, and risks in the workplace and give them the knowledge to handle them effectively. Our courses also equip delegates with the knowledge they need to effectively communicate through a crisis if it were to happen in their school.

Occupational Safety and Health

Our accessible range of occupational safety and health courses are suitable for every sector and all employees within your organisation. Help promote a safety-conscious culture throughout your workforce with our IOSH training.

THE FULL CATALYST SOLUTION

We’ve combined our People, Financial and Risk solutions, allowing you to drive efficiencies and giving you the opportunity to free the time and talent in your team and focus on what really matters.
So, what’s stopping you and your team?

SO YOU KNOW THAT YOU HAVE EVERY RISK AND COMPLIANCE ISSUE IDENTIFIED AND BOXED OFF.

Find out more about Catalyst Risk