Educational Trusts: 3 Huge Cleaning Setbacks

Running a trust comes with a lot of extra responsibility. There's so much that requires your attention on a macro-scale but also on a micro-scale as you have to consider the small details that keep your schools running.

We've spent a lot of our 25+ years servicing educational institutions. In that time, we've gained a significant amount of experience that allows us to offer expert advice to our amazing clients across the country. Because we've worked with so many schools for so long, we've noticed a few patterns. There are common issues that always crop up, and can be very frustrating for your janitorial teams to have to consistently deal with.

Here are some of the biggest cleaning issues faced by educational trusts and how you can combat them...

Waste is a huge issue in schools. From students throwing wet toilet paper at ceilings to cleaners going out of date, there are tons of ways to avoid unnecessary waste in your institutions. If you want to cut back on how much is being wasted across your schools, then we recommend:

These help control how many hand towels a person can take at a time, usually limited to just one. This helps avoid unnecessary waste from people taking a ton of paper to dry their hands and also helps avoid vandalism by simply making it more difficult. If you're looking for a solution to this specific issue, we highly recommend checking out our Kontrol range, which specialises in reducing waste across our clients' schools.

Also available through our Kontrol range, these dispensers help stop the wastage of hand soap across your schools. They're tamperproof and designed to work with foam soap which is notoriously less wasteful than liquid soap, especially if you find that liquid soaps are causing a huge mess for your teams to clean up.

One of our cleaning solution providers, Solupak, provides eco-friendly options for cleaning solutions. Instead of sending boxes of liquid or gel to your schools, you can instead choose to send small boxes of capsules. These take up less space, are more sustainable and are just as effective. It also helps combat the very real issue of liquid cleaners just getting too old as they sit in storage; these capsules don't go out of date at the same rate and are more reliable for longer.

Depending on how your trust operates, you may have people who are in charge of supplying cleaning supplies and PPE for your janitorial teams. If you don't, or even if you do, it can be hard to manage quality control, and we know from decades of experience that this department can often get overlooked in the big picture. Luckily, our encounter with these issues has allowed us to create the necessary solutions that could transform how you work with your janitorial/groundskeeping teams.

Our site has a unique feature that allows an organisation to have different users within it. These users can be assigned different levels of seniority, which dictate whether they can create Easy Order lists, make purchases or oversee others' activities. These accesses can greatly help you when it comes to managing expenses, quality control across organisations, and ensuring your teams are properly equipped at all times.

As stated above, we have another unique feature available to clients on our site, which is the ability to create Easy Order lists. These lists can be used to quickly order regularly needed supplies for multiple institutions. You can even create different lists for different schools if you need to! It's an incredibly intuitive feature that allows for a much easier ordering experience and cuts out a lot of wasted time.

When we ask new clients about the reasons they're searching for a new supplier, we often hear "consistency" and "reliability" among the answers. Needing a reliable and consistent supplier, who can supply all your schools, should be pretty basic criteria, but it can often seem like a luxury in today's market.

At CS4UK, we're known for our consistency and reliability. Your institutions will never be without their supplies. With dedicated account managers who are committed to the health and safety of your schools, you can guarantee that you're getting top-quality service every time. Just see what other educational institutions have to say about working with CS4UK...

"Our School Business Manager was in the office with me at the time, and before he came in, I said how lovely he was to her, and she completely agreed after he had left. He is always so kind and polite, and he always takes time out to ask how we are and how our day is going. He really is such a credit to your company... We'd really appreciate it if you could pass this on to him. "

If you find that you're having issues with wastage, supply & demand, or finding a consistent provider, then why not get in touch? At CS4UK, we're dedicated to helping you find the solutions to your problems.

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