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andrewjb1  
#1 Posted : 23 August 2017 11:04:47(UTC)
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andrewjb1

We are a Multi Academy Trust with 4 Schools and the Health and Safety Policy Statement has always been signed by The Chief Executive of the Trust. If the Trust are responsible for electing the CEO can the policy be signed by the Chairman?
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Pkirbyesquire  
#2 Posted : 23 August 2017 11:29:10(UTC)
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Pkirbyesquire

Interesting question., We are now signing up our first schools in our MAT and I'm looking at the scheme of delegation and policy docs for Health and Safety. I'd be really interested to hear of yours and others experiences with implementing a trust wide policy as opposed to a school wide one.

Sorry, thats is of no use to you in terms of answering your question but its nice to know theres others out there that have faced similar challenges
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andrewjb1  
#3 Posted : 23 August 2017 11:40:10(UTC)
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andrewjb1

Implementing the policy was fairly straight forward, we simply provided a policy statement of intent that was signed, the responsibilities section was set out then we provided each School with a template set of arrangmenst which they can pick and choose which ones they use or relevant ie some schools have a swimming pool, others have animals on site so we provided template arrangmensts for each then they can use which ones they need.
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douglas.dick  
#4 Posted : 23 August 2017 12:30:30(UTC)
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douglas.dick

IMHO it would still be the CEO as the most senior person in the organisation. Just like a large organisation where share holders vote in a CEO, this is done by trustees of the board. There is a grey area who has the most seniority or power, I agree.

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Zyggy  
#5 Posted : 23 August 2017 13:54:41(UTC)
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Zyggy
Andrew, why not have both sign the Policy? When I worked for a large LA we had a Statement of Intent signed by both the CE & Leader of the Council. The HSE were more than happy with this approach.
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Hsquared14  
#6 Posted : 25 August 2017 11:45:11(UTC)
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Hsquared14

Zyggy's solution is fair as it reflects where the power resides in practice.  On educational trust I have worked with also had the Principle of each academy sign the policy statement to demonstrate that the person in control on site had bought in to the policy.

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