When sending your child to school you have enough to worry about; your child being bullied, how well they are doing classes, homework etc. What you don't need to be worrying about is what would happen if there was a Fire whilst your child was in school.

In the past two years in Lancashire alone, 13 schools have been reported for failing to meet Fire Safety Standards.

All 13 schools were found to be inadequate in their protection against Fire Safety and two of the schools were given alteration notices.  As with any business and more importantly in Schools; Fire Risk Assessments are a legal requirement to ensure that people are safe when visiting the premises.

Safety in our state schools should be a must however paying to send your child to a private school you would expect a higher standard of care.  This was not the case for one of the schools that was named in the report was, Al Islah Private School who had failed in as many as six areas of the legal Fire Safety requirements and this included emergency fire routes and exits.

You would also expect that staff within schools were adequately trained to cope in the event of a Fire, Fire Alarms were maintained along with Emergency Lighting, Fire Investigations proved otherwise.

The schools have been issued with formal or informal notices in order to address any shortfalls and it has been said that most schools throughout Lancashire do have a very good record for keeping upto date with Fire Legislation.

Macdonald Martin Fire Safety Consultants assess many schools across the UK on a monthly basis and do find that most are compliant with Fire Safety Law. Schools need to remember that it is in the interest of themselves, children and visitors to the school that they have the correct Fire Precautions in place