Is Your Cleaning Contract Sabotaging Your Strategic Role?

As a Bursar or School Business Manager, your remit is meant to be strategic: financial forecasting, estate management, and driving institutional efficiency.

Instead, your reality likely looks more like this:

Fielding 7:00 AM complaints from faculty about unemptied bins and dirty floors.

Policing a revolving door of transient staff just to figure out who is on your premises on any given day.

Chasing your contractor to verify your Single Central Record (SCR) is up-to-date with those current cleaners, or save time and risk an inspector discovering the discrepancies first.

Micromanaging a legacy contractor who treats hygiene as a low-wage commodity.

This is a heavy "management overhead tax." It drains your time, pulls you away from school leadership, and ultimately turns your cleaning contract into a serious safeguarding vulnerability.

The KCSIE Risk of the "Minimum Wage" Model

When cleaning agencies rely on low pay and high turnover, compliance inevitably slips. Every new, unvetted face in your corridors is a potential breach of KCSIE guidelines and a direct threat to your Ofsted rating. You shouldn't have to choose between a clean school and a secure one—and you certainly shouldn't be doing your contractor's job for them.

Tomikach Services: We Absorb the Operational Burden

Tomikach Services was founded to completely eliminate this friction. We don't just clean your school; we manage the operational risk so you don't have to.

Verified Safeguarding & Zero Turnover: As an accredited Real Living Wage employer, we attract and retain the best. Less turnover means fewer unfamiliar faces on site and absolute peace of mind.

Instant SCR Compliance: Our digital portal physically blocks unvetted staff from taking shifts. You receive current, updated Letters of Assurance, backed by our ISO Quality (9001) and Environmental (14001) systems, keeping your SCR permanently green.

Seamless TUPE Transfers: We specialise in positive transitions. We take on your familiar, reliable team members, re-tutoring them to the highest externally recognised British Institute of Cleaning Science (BICSc) standards and turning legacy performance issues into highly motivated school assets.

Transparent Digital Auditing: Ditch the paper checklists. Our fully digital back office provides real-time compliance logs, giving you effortless proof of performance whenever inspectors—or governors—ask.

Your time is too valuable to spend chasing a cleaning contractor's shadow.

Let’s secure your school's compliance and return those vital hours to your leadership team.

Contact Tone Shearsby at enquiries@tomikach.co.uk today to book your complimentary school hygiene survey.