Teachers clocking in and out

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Our term has started already and we now have to swipe our cards to clock in and out every day. Just wondering is this now common practice across UK schools? The justification is for health and safety to check who is in the building in case of emergency but it’s obviously really to check up on us.

We've done this for years. One member of staff (who is consistently late) never signs in or out. She was wiped the floor with at our last fire drill because she wasn't on the staff list, especially as they checked back and saw that she never does.

It's not really a big deal to sign in and out is it?

My school is such a sprawling site with multiple buildings, so unless you swiped in and out every entrance time it would make so sense for fire purposes.

I suspect if SLT really wanted to check up on anyone times they could already do so by checking when you logged onto a computer, as I guess that would be straight away for most people.

These systems aren't used to track which building you're in or not though, just whether you're in school or not.

But the justification is health and safety in case of fire, which just wouldn’t work at all at my site.

I also don’t think they need a swipe in/out to check on people’s time at work, when they can do that already from the computer system logins.

But there will be some people that don't lo on as soon as they get in, or who log out a while before going home? Hardly failsafe.

They have no need to check when staff are working though.
At my school the assumption is you're in, if you leave the building you have to sign out at reception.
Never been any problems with it.

We used to sign in and out on paper, and switched to swiping in and out last year- apparently it's to make the site fully secure, as it means external doors are locked during the day. Problem is some people hold the door open for others, so it's definitely less accurate. As far as I know, the data was never used against anyone.