3.0 Roles and Responsibilities
3.1 School Incident Management Team
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Role
Responsibilities
Accountability /
Authority
Senior responsible owner of Business
Headteacher
The Headteacher has
Continuity Management in the School
overall responsibility for
day-to-management of
Ensuring the School has capacity within it’s
the School, including
structure to respond to incidents
lead decision-maker in
Determining the School’s overall response
times of crisis.
and recovery strategy
Business Continuity Plan development
Business
Business Continuity Co-
Continuity
ordinator reports directly
Developing continuity arrangements and
Coordinator
into the Headteacher
strategies e.g. alternative relocation site,
and will usually be a
use of temporary staff etc
member of the School
Involving the School community in the
Incident Management
planning process as appropriate
Team.
Plan testing and exercise
Conducting ‘debriefs’ following an incident,
test or exercise to identify lessons and ways
in which the plan can be improved
Training staff within the School on Business
Continuity
Embedding a culture of resilience within the
School, involving stakeholders as required
Leading the School’s initial and ongoing
School Incident
The School Incident
Management
response to an incident
Management Team has
Team
the delegated authority
Declaring that an ‘incident’ is taking place
to authorise all decisions
(including Business
Activating the Business Continuity Plan
Continuity Coordinator
and actions required to
Notifying relevant stakeholders of the
and Headteacher)
respond and recover
incident, plan activation and ongoing
from the incident.
response actions
Providing direction and leadership for the
whole School community
Undertaking response and communication
actions as agreed in the plan
Prioritising the recovery of key activities
disrupted by the incident
Managing resource deployment
Welfare of Pupils
Staff welfare and employment issues