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School cleaning
Schools have to be clean for a building full of children, cleaned around a timetable that does not move, by people who are cleared to be there. We have been doing exactly that across Devon for over 20 years.
A school is a demanding cleaning environment: high traffic, a great deal of hard floor, washrooms used in short intense bursts, and a duty of care that makes hygiene a safeguarding matter rather than a cosmetic one.
The work has to fit the timetable — before school, after school, and the bigger jobs in the holidays when the building is empty. Half term and summer are when floors get stripped and sealed, carpets get done and everything that cannot happen in term time happens.
Everyone we send into a school is vetted. We are Safe Contractor approved and Citation PLC members, and we are used to working to a school's own procedures rather than expecting them to work to ours.
How we do it
Term-time cleaning
Daily cleaning fitted around the school day — classrooms, corridors, washrooms, halls and staff areas, before or after the children are in.
Holiday deep cleans
The work that needs an empty building: floors stripped and sealed, carpets cleaned, high-level dusting, kitchens and washrooms taken back to base.
Cleared, supervised staff
Vetted cleaners, supervised, working to your safeguarding procedures and signing in like anybody else on site.
What is covered
- Primary, secondary and nurseries
- Term-time daily cleaning
- Holiday and half-term deep cleans
- Hard floor stripping and sealing
- Washrooms and consumables
- Vetted, supervised staff
Our own work
A school handed back after the fit-out
Photographs of jobs we have actually finished.
Questions
School Cleaning — your questions answered
Are your staff DBS checked?
Everyone we place in a school is vetted appropriately for the setting, and we work to the school's own safeguarding procedures — signing in, badges, supervision arrangements, and staying out of areas we should not be in. We are Safe Contractor approved and Citation PLC members. If your school has particular requirements beyond the standard, tell us and we will meet them rather than negotiate about them.
Can you work around the school day?
Yes, and it is the only way school cleaning works. Daily cleaning happens before the children arrive or after they leave, depending on what suits the site. Anything disruptive or involving equipment and chemicals is kept out of occupied hours entirely. Being open 24 hours means the timetable dictates when we come, not the other way round.
Do you do holiday deep cleans?
Yes, and they are a significant part of school work. An empty building is the only time you can strip and seal hard floors, deep clean carpets, do high-level dusting, and take kitchens and washrooms right back. Half term, Easter and the summer break are all booked well ahead, so it is worth talking to us early — summer in particular fills up.
Can you clean nurseries and early years settings?
Yes. Early years brings extra requirements: everything at child height gets handled far more, toys and soft furnishings need attention, and product choice matters more because of how much contact there is. We use products appropriate to the setting and we are used to Ofsted-facing standards of record keeping.
What about washrooms and consumables?
Washrooms are the part of a school that will generate complaints fastest, so they get proper attention rather than a quick pass. We can supply and manage consumables — soap, towels, tissue — which removes one more thing from a site manager's list and means they do not run out mid-morning.
Can you cover a site at short notice?
Often, yes. Schools lose cleaning cover to sickness and to contractors letting them down, and both tend to be urgent. Call us — we would rather be asked and say no than not be asked. For schools we already cover, holiday and sickness cover is part of the arrangement.
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