Schools: Weather
Commons · Question 92828 · Tabled 19 Nov 2025 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 26 Nov 2025
Question
Asked by Andrew Snowden
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what guidance her Department provides to local authorities on support for schools in cases of (a) snow and (b) other extreme weather.
Answer
Answered by Josh MacAlister, 26 Nov 2025
It is for individual settings and responsible bodies to decide on closures based on their own risk assessment. Closures should be a last resort, and the priority is to keep settings open where it is safe to do so.The department’s emergency planning guidan...