Business Continuity Management Plan Page 8

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3.0 Roles and Responsibilities
3.1 School Incident Management Team
Please add/delete/amend as appropriate to your School’s needs
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

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