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NUT on reporting and monitoring accidents and incidents in schools

26 April 2011

Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers' union, said;

“Accidents and injuries in schools need to be taken seriously. Ensuring that they are properly reported and investigated is important for a number of reasons not least to help prevent them happening again.

“The Government is determined to 'dumb down' the accident reporting system in an unacceptable fashion. The NUT is not against simplification and the removal of unnecessary 'red-tape' per se provided that valuable safeguards are not lost.

“Lord Young's proposals to change the current requirement to report only injuries that result in absences of 7 days, rather than the present three, implies that what has happened is only trivial or minor. Many injuries resulting in three days absence are far from minor or trivial.

“However low the bar, unscrupulous employers will always seek to avoid compliance. It cannot be right for Government to encourage this in any way.”



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