SCHOOL POLICY MANUAL-2024-2025

BUSINESS CONTINUITY POLICY

Name of Service Name of School Contact Details

Educational Institution – UK Curriculum School

Al Diyafah International School

04 2671115

Email

info@diyafahschool.com

Approximate No. of Staff Approximate No. of Pupils

250

1720

Age range of pupils

3 years to 17 years (FS-1 to Year 13) 25 th August 2023 – 24 th August 2024

Policy Date

1. OBJECTIVE, SCOPE & PURPOSE

Objective

To provide flexible framework to manage the response to any school disruption or emergency, maintain critical activities and recover from the incident quickly and efficiently. The following departments / sites are in the scope of this plan: School Administration, Foundation Stage, Primary, Secondary, Sixth – Form Transport and Medical. • Al Diyafah High School Business Continuity Policy may be activated in the event of a highly significant disruption to the day-to-day functioning of the school. Example: Pandemics, Industrial action, war, natural disaster, terrorist attacks, major ICT outage, etc. • In the event of such serious emergencies, the school’s crisis management team will meet to activate the Business Continuity Plan to ensure continuity of the educational activities smoothly. • Face to face learning system may be replaced with Blended or Hybrid or Distance learning or a combination of these as the situation demands. This Plan will be activated to manage the response to any incident causing significant disruption to normal service delivery, particularly the teaching-learning activities in school. Plan activation triggers may include: ◼ Loss of key people or skills. Example: above normal levels of absenteeism due to illness/injury or other scenarios such as severe weather, changes in service structures, major transport disruption, emergency response duties, or people leaving the organization. ◼ Loss of critical systems: Example: ICT network disruption, telephony outage, power outage, utilities disruption. ◼ Denial of access, or damage to, facilities: Example: loss of a building through fire or flood, an external emergency where emergency service cordon would prevent access for a period, utilities failure. You may also require the activation of continuity arrangements in the event of an office move. ◼ Loss of a key resource: such as damage to the computer network, program hacking, etc. The Crisis Management Team of the school comprising of the Principal, SLT, Operations Team, Doctor, Heads of Departments and Supervisor.

Plan Scope

Purpose

2. PLAN ACTIVATION

Circumstances

Authorities

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Al Diyafah High School-Reviewed policies- November 2024

AT&L24-2025