Basic safety failings costs schools £1.5m

SCHOOLS across Greater Manchester have paid out more than £1.5 million in compensation due to “basic health-and-safety failings” in the past five years.

Over that time Oldham paid out almosr £42,000 across seven successful claims.

Greater Manchester’s 10 boroughs had 255 successful personal-injury claims against schools from September 2008. The city of Manchester was responsible for most: 190 at a cost of £943,848.