The school estate carries risk that a five-yearly certificate alone never surfaces — worn workshop supplies, overloaded ICT suites, ageing distribution in mobile classrooms. Our Education Safety Survey™ inspects and codes it against BS 7671, aligns the findings to DfE GEMS and produces safeguarding-ready evidence — worked around your timetable, not against it.
Every survey finding is inspected, coded and documented against the specific duty your governing body, trust or local authority carries.
The DfE's estate-management framework expects a current record of the condition and safety of every building service, electrical distribution included — our survey feeds it directly.
The IET's national wiring standard. Every circuit surveyed across the estate is inspected and coded against its requirements.
Places a legal duty on schools and trusts to maintain fixed electrical systems so they cannot give rise to danger to staff or pupils.
Statutory safeguarding guidance frames site safety as a pupil-welfare issue — our evidence pack supports the safeguarding governor's oversight of the estate.
The overarching duty of care to everyone on site — surveyed electrical risk is documented so the school can demonstrate it has been assessed and controlled.
Deteriorating fixed wiring is a recognised ignition source; survey findings feed straight into the school's fire risk assessment.
A nursery, a DT-heavy secondary and a multi-academy trust don't share the same risk profile — we scope the Education Safety Survey™ to the setting in front of us.
Low-level sockets, wet-play areas and heating circuits surveyed for young-child risk
Classrooms, hall, ICT trolleys and a commercial kitchen on a single survey visit
Science, design-technology and food-tech workshops surveyed at higher scrutiny
Whole-portfolio survey with a single ranked risk register across every site
Workshops, studios and higher-load lab and catering supplies surveyed by block
Hoists, sensory rooms and medical-support circuits surveyed with extra care
Split-responsibility estates surveyed with clear diocese/LA reporting lines
Temporary and demountable buildings — often the estate's highest electrical risk
We combine the BS 7671 observation codes with a plain-English estate-risk rating your business manager and governors can act on without an electrical background.
Danger present — immediate risk to pupils/staff, made safe on site
Potentially dangerous — remedial action required without delay
Improvement recommended — plan into the estate maintenance budget
Further investigation required to establish the extent of a fault
Address this term — safeguarding-critical estate risk
Address this academic year — budget and schedule now
Whether you run one site or forty, pick the level of survey cover that matches how you hold your electrical compliance evidence.
A one-off Education Safety Survey™ of a single site, coded to BS 7671 and mapped to GEMS.
Rolling survey programme for a multi-academy trust, with one portfolio-wide risk view.
Survey plus remedial delivery and evidence management — the whole electrical compliance lifecycle managed for you.
Scoped for local authorities and dioceses surveying multiple maintained schools.
A representative sample of recent survey work. Full case studies and references available on request.
Full survey across classrooms, hall and kitchen over three after-school visits — no lessons disrupted. One C2 on a hall socket made safe.
Higher-scrutiny survey of design-technology, food-tech and lab supplies; two overloaded machine circuits flagged Priority A.
Rolling term-time survey across eleven sites, delivered as a single ranked risk register for the trust board and capital planning.
Survey of media studios, catering training kitchen and higher-load lab supplies across two teaching blocks.
Careful survey of ceiling-hoist supplies, sensory-room circuits and medical-support outlets in an occupied special school.
Low-level socket, wet-play and heating-circuit survey with young-child risk front of mind, delivered in a single morning.
Survey with clear diocese-versus-LA reporting lines across an older main building and a modern teaching wing.
Survey of four temporary classroom units — the estate's highest electrical risk — with ageing distribution flagged for renewal.
Coordinated survey of three federated primaries in a single half-term, reported against a shared GEMS condition baseline.
Representative examples — school names withheld for safeguarding and client confidentiality. Ask for references relevant to your setting.
Accredited survey engineers across London and the South East, with every report logged to your safeguarding record wherever your sites are.
The retainers above are cheaper over time — but every part of the Education Safety Survey™ is also available as a one-off, fixed price upfront.
| Service | Standard | From |
|---|---|---|
| Survey | ||
| Nursery / small primary survey (single block) | GEMS · BS 7671 | £650 |
| Primary school survey (whole site) | GEMS · BS 7671 | £1,150 |
| Secondary / college survey (per teaching block) | GEMS · BS 7671 | £480 |
| Mobile / modular classroom survey (per unit) | BS 7671 | £95 |
| Remedial Priorities | ||
| C1 / Priority A — made safe (per item, same visit) | BS 7671 | £45 |
| C2 — remedial repair (per item) | BS 7671 | £65 |
| C3 / Priority B — improvement work (per item) | BS 7671 | £40 |
| Distribution board upgrade (per board) | BS 7671 | £450 |
| Reporting & Evidence | ||
| GEMS-aligned condition report | DfE GEMS | Included |
| Safeguarding evidence pack (governor-ready) | KCSIE | £85 |
| Retest & satisfactory certificate issue | BS 7671 | £75 |
| Trust / LA portfolio risk register | GEMS | Custom quote |
Single-school surveys — book a live slot instantly. Trust, college and portfolio surveys — send an enquiry and we'll come back with a fixed quote scoped to your estate.
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No. The Education Safety Survey™ is designed to run in term time, worked around your timetable — visits are staged room-by-room and block-by-block, often after school or during non-contact periods, so teaching is never interrupted. We only ask that we're escorted through occupied areas in line with your safeguarding policy.
An EICR certifies the condition of the fixed wiring at a point in time. The Education Safety Survey™ builds on that — it maps every finding to a plain-English estate-risk priority, aligns it to DfE GEMS, and packages it as governor- and inspection-ready evidence. Where a full EICR is due, we can carry that out within the same survey visit.
You receive a ranked risk register with photographic evidence, a GEMS-aligned condition summary and a governor-ready safeguarding evidence pack. Together these let your safeguarding governor and business manager demonstrate, under KCSIE and the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974, that electrical risk on the estate has been assessed and is being managed.
DfE Good Estate Management for Schools expects an accurate, current record of the condition of your building services. Our survey provides that record for the electrical estate, ranked by priority, so it drops straight into your estate strategy, planned maintenance budget and any Condition Improvement Fund or School Condition Allowance capital bid.
Yes. Under a Trust Retainer we run a rolling term-time programme across every site and consolidate the findings into one portfolio-wide risk register, ranked across the trust so trustees can direct capital where the risk is highest — reported termly.