Pharos Response are delighted to have set up a partnership with EVOLVEAdvice. A well regarded name amongst schools for providing guidance, advice, training and support for educational visits.  The partnership with Pharos will offer EVOLVEAdvice’s client schools the complete educational visit support solution with the option to access Pharos Response’s 24/7 incident support service. Available to EVOLVEAdvice customers for a discounted price,

Opening the school gates to more than the current few vulnerable pupils and children of key workers will undoubtedly raise many questions about how to operate as safely and within the current guidelines as possible within a school setting. Consideration for social distancing, enhanced hygiene and reduced contact with surfaces that others may also come into contact with, while also remembering we are working with children, some as young as 4! Not an easy task and of course everyone’s priority will always be the safety and wellbeing of children.

Since becoming one of ISBA’s (Independent Schools Bursars’ Association) Trusted Advisors early in 2020, we were delighted to be asked to prepare some risk assessment guidance at the beginning of May to help their members prepare for partial re-opening. The very scenario schools now find themselves in. On reading the Government’s guidance on reopening schools this morning, we were equally delighted (and a little relieved) to see how our advice was so aligned with that of the Government.

Pharos Response wishes all our clients and friends a safe passage through what are unchartered waters.  As you would expect from risk and reputation management specialists, our team have been heavily involved in COVID-19 response since the beginning of February.  Indeed, we have been busier than ever helping our school, travel and adventure activity clients in particular in planning their

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We are delighted to have featured in the recent issue of Activity Industry Mutual’s (AIM) newsletter called ‘On Target‘. AIM is a leading insurance mutual for the adventure activities sector and Pharos supports a large number of its client Members with 24/7 incident response support. The On Target article explains why it is beneficial to have specialist support immediately available

While we wait for the consultation process to be completed on the Government’s new Security Guidance for Schools, we thought schools may benefit from the key highlights we extracted from the draft document earlier in the year in case you are planning on doing some work on this over the summer holidays. The draft document can be found here. Key