The Health and Safety Executive will inspect schools across England to assess how leaders are managing the risks from asbestos.
From this September, HSE inspections of primary and secondary schools will look at how leaders are meeting their “duty to manage” the harmful building material.
Asbestos is present on more than eight in 10 school sites, a Department for Education survey in 2018 estimated.
The survey also found that almost a fifth of schools were not managing asbestos in line with government guidance.
