Business Continuity Management Plan Page 6

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2.0 Plan Activation
2.1 Circumstances
This Plan will be activated in response to an incident causing significant disruption to the School,
particularly the delivery of key/critical activities.
Examples of circumstances triggering activation of this Plan include:
Loss of key staff or skills e.g. above normal levels of absenteeism due to illness or other
scenarios such as severe weather, transport disruption
Loss of critical systems e.g. ICT failure, power outage
Denial of access, or damage to, facilities e.g. loss of a building through fire or flood, an
external emergency with the School in the Emergency Service’s cordon preventing access, ,
School facilities in use for General/Local Elections, severe weather scenarios or utilities
failure
Loss of a key resource e.g. an external supplier/partner vital to the delivery of a critical
school activity such as your catering provider or any providers of transport e.g. for SEN
pupils
2.2 Responsibility for Plan Activation
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A member of the nominated School Incident Management Team
will normally activate and
stand down this Plan.
2.3 Escalating a Serious Incident
All serious incidents should be reported to Management Support to Schools on the Helpline
Number: 0161 234 7137. If the incident is deemed to be of a ‘critical’ nature, the Critical Incident
Plan will be activated and other Council Services notified to respond as appropriate.
All incidents affecting the physical infrastructure of the School should be reported to the
Planning and Accommodation Support Service (PASS) on the General Enquiries Number: 0161
234 7465 or directly to the Property Development Advisor for your area. PASS will then take
appropriate action to support the School’s response to an incident in terms of activating other
Council Services and partner agencies as required.
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See Section 3.1 for the responsibilities your School Incident Management Team

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