Emergency Contact Information

An email was sent to all headteachers from Monica Fogarty, Joint Managing Director of Warwickshire County Council, on 19th April, requesting headteachers' home and mobile telephone numbers for use only in emergency situations.

This request came as a result of a recent situation on the weekend during the snow/cold weather, where Severn Trent Water was down to zero water supply due to leaking reservoirs. We were faced with a situation whereby a large number of Warwickshire schools might not have been able to open on the Monday, and no way of contacting the relevant headteachers to alert them.  In this situation, email would not have been an effective means of communication due to the urgency of the decision required.

In order to avoid a similar situation in future, we have therefore requested all headteachers provide a home and mobile telephone number.

Thank you to those of you who have already responded to this request. There are still a large number of headteachers who have not responded, so if you have not already done so please could you follow the link below to the short online form to provide us with this information:

https://goo.gl/forms/Ty7PnTwGqjWqM9qh2

We would like to reassure you that the Google form is secure and your details will be held in a secure environment on WCC's network.  Access to this information will be restricted to the following people:

• Monica Fogarty, Joint Managing Director
• Chris Malone, Head of Service Education and Learning
• Jayne Surman, Marketing and Communications Manager
• Ruth Waterman, School Partnerships Support Officer

Should the need arise to widen the access to these details, we will notify of you this in advance.

If any of these contact details change at any time, please notify us by emailing schoolpartnerships@warwickshire.gov.uk so that we can update our records.

Thank you for your cooperation with this request.