Health and Safety (Education and Training) Bill

Key Points

• Integrates health and safety into curricula and training programmes across education and vocational settings.
• Applies to schools, further education colleges, universities and other providers of vocational training.
• Creates duties on providers to deliver, promote and assess health and safety learning.
• Enables regulators and inspectors to monitor compliance with the new requirements.
• Supports improved risk management and safety culture within education and training.

Progress

Currently at the 2nd reading in the House of Commons. The next steps are committee scrutiny, followed by further readings, before consideration by the Lords.