We've been looking after Staff Absence Insurance in the education sector for over 25 years, and are an approved partner of ISBL so you could say we know a thing or two about your needs. By offering one of the widest staff absence insurance covers on the market, we make sure that your school can continue to run with minimal interruption. Our cover includes protection for pre-existing illnesses, long COVID, and pre-planned operations. We also cover pregnancy-related illnesses up to 28 days before the expected due date. What else makes us different though? We pride ourselves in putting customers at the heart of everything we do and we’re here to make your life easier. Our Health and Wellbeing Hub can support you in managing and reducing absence as well as helping with your duty of care to your employees. Our Employee Assistance Programme includes 8 sessions of specialist face-to-face or remote counselling per issue, occupational health services, day 1 stress intervention and critical incident support, as well as a 24/7 confidential helpline with qualified advisers. It is more than likely that during the academic year, you will need to make a staff absence claim and it is at this point, that you find out just how good your policy really is. We pay valid claims within an average of 5 days and there is usually no need for lengthy documentation to validate. Where appropriate, we can also arrange physiotherapy for muscular skeletal claims to help your staff get back to work sooner and you can manage staff lists and track the status of your claims with our client portal.