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School Access Control Systems

Clearway provides school access control systems that automate entry for verified staff and students, preventing unauthorised access and reducing administrative workload. School access control systems are security solutions that manage and monitor entry to educational facilities, ensuring only authorised individuals can access premises.

Access controls provide schools with compliant, safe, and highly adaptable ways to streamline entries and exits by verified staff and students while keeping sites protected from unauthorised access, security threats, and risks without requiring constant manual supervision and monitoring.

Clearway’s multi-talented educational security teams offer a full suite of school access control solutions, creating well-managed school sites that are invulnerable to security breaches and have a reliable, full-functioning method of protecting personnel and pupils without hampering normal traffic flows.

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We Offer:

  • Fully customised school access controls that protect entire school sites and campuses, safeguard residential halls and dorms, and extend to specific areas like staff-only spaces, storage areas and offices.
  • Cost-efficient solutions that reduce demand on administrative resources, utilising automated entry mechanisms designed specifically around your school, normal access requirements, and security profile.
  • Bespoke access rights, differentiating between security doors, gates and entrances accessible to all students, those reserved only for staff, and secure areas for leadership teams, maintenance personnel and those with additional clearance.
  • Advanced visitor management to control the flow of approved visitors, with automated badge printing, event logs, and personnel notifications to ensure guests are escorted at all times.
  • Variable access solutions, from keypads and video entry equipped with facial recognition to ID card systems, ANPR for vehicles, and integrated CCTV surveillance.
  • Regulatory compliance assistance, advising on the implementation and integration of access controls to protect data privacy and ensure school sites meet the highest safety standards, and student and workforce protection.

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School Visitor Management Systems

Visitor management systems are designed to introduce comprehensive, always-on controls, even for complex school sites and campuses with multiple buildings and departments. From the point of arrival, all visitors are screened and prompted to sign in and provide verification of their identity and approval status.

Schools can use pre-registration systems to record expected guests, offer automated ID badge printing that outlines the access permissions granted, and use analytics that report on visitor times, durations, areas attended, and exit times.

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Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) Cameras

ANPR is a core function within school access controls for car parking facilities. It provides the capacity to screen every approaching vehicle automatically, checking whether the number plate is recorded on a secure, approved database of personnel and visitor vehicles.

Activating electric fences or bollards, these cameras ensure that known and verified vehicles can enter the school site without disruption, protect staff and school vehicles from vandalism and theft, and prevent any unknown vehicle from entering the site, either during school hours or as a continual layer of security.

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Security Fencing for Schools

Commercial-grade security fencing surpasses the effectiveness of standard fence panels or anti-climb fencing, incorporating a huge range of potential capabilities. These can include audible detection systems to raise an alert when fencing has been disturbed, indicative of climbing or tampering, and gating that is integrated with access controls.

Alarmed security fences are designed to act as a robust deterrent. Visible signage warns opportunist intruders that the fence is alarmed, creating a physical boundary around the school perimeter that will notify security teams or responders when there is a potential intrusion attempt underway.

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Electric Bollards for School Access Controls

Bollards create a physical obstacle that prevents vehicles from entering a school. They can be used around perimeters, such as to the rear of playing fields where school grounds border public spaces or around primary entry and exit points.

Electric bollards integrate perfectly with access controls and lower automatically once the individual or vehicle has shown their approved credentials or been scanned as a known and authorised site user. However, they are impossible to move or tamper with in any other situation.

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What Do We Protect Against?

There is little doubt that many schools have considerable concerns around site-wide safety and recognise the evolving risks and threats they need to safeguard their staff and pupils against, yet with the challenge of limited budgets.

Access controls provide a highly cost-effective solution, with systems that operate autonomously and continuously. This often results in better usage of admin and staff resources and lowers pressure on physical guarding, car parking attendants, and reception teams.

Unauthorised School Visitors

Anyone not permitted on a school site must be unable to access the premises without being detected or challenged. Access controls prevent non-custodial parents, criminal intruders, and trespassers from entering any part of the school grounds.

Thefts and Vandalism

Many intrusion attempts occur overnight, with thieves targeting resources, equipment and electronic devices. The nature of access control systems means they are always operational and will raise an alarm or notify our Alarm Response Centre (ARC) if an emergency response is necessary.

Safety Policy Compliance

Schools commonly have numerous legitimate visitors, from catering and maintenance teams to course delivery partners and supply teachers. Advanced access controls showcase best practice adherence to all applicable regulations while ensuring that known individuals can easily enter and leave.

Violence and Aggression

Issues around threats against teaching staff have been widely publicised, and creating secure access controls ensures that personnel can go about their day with the assurance and peace of mind that the school site is fully protected, without the potential for any unauthorised intruder to gain entry.

Poor Visitor Management

Schools are expected to showcase how they safeguard pupils and protect the well-being of their personnel and known visitors, such as inspectors. Proper visitor management ensures visitors are welcomed and have a streamlined experience without being left to navigate the school independently.

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Why Choose Clearway for School Access Control Systems?

As the sector-leading security specialists for high-risk environments, including education, Clearway provides access to a comprehensive range of access control devices, systems and services, incorporating the best in advanced technology, automatic facial detection and vehicle recognition, mitigating a wide array of potential threats.

Our focus is on dependable, cost-efficient, and highly responsive security that provides the highest levels of safety management, creating fully managed and properly controlled school sites that do not have vulnerabilities that make a live security incident more likely.

Frequently asked questions

The primary goal of an access control system is to augment security and safety across the board. It restricts access to a school site to any individual or vehicle that isn’t recognised or approved and doesn’t have the appropriate credentials to be permitted entry.

In the event of an emergency, such as a fire evacuation, access controls can automatically release doors or specific points of exit or entry, facilitating swift, safe and controlled evacuations without hampering the speed at which staff and students can exit the building.

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