Emergency School Closures advice

Free text service

WCC offers a free text service to provide alerts about school closures to anyone who would like to subscribe.

The service is set up in such a way that you will only receive alerts for the school you sign up for and you can subscribe to receive alerts for more than one school.

Full instructions on how to subscribe are available on the Emergency School Closures page. Please do share this link with your families so they can subscribe if they haven't already done so.

Please note: the number that people need to message in order to subscribe has recently changed. This has been updated on the school closure SMS system and on the Emergency School Closures page. 

We are aware that some schools operate their own text service however any school taking the decision to close should still notify us using the phone number for the Emergency School Closures line below.

Notifying us if your school is closed

If you have taken the decision to close your school for any reason, please notify us as soon as possible by calling the Emergency School Closures line on 01926 412611.

Please give information about when the school will be closed from and until, reasons for closure and a DfE number to identify the school.

This will then be added into the school closure system and pulled through onto the schools closure webpage with messages going to parents who have signed up to receive alerts. 

Get real-time updates on Twitter

Parents, carers, students and staff can follow our Twitter account @wccschoolclosed for the latest real-time updates.