Certified, reliable PAT testing for schools, colleges, and nurseries

Protect your students. Stay compliant. Trust the experts in educational safety.

We provide professional PAT testing for schools, academies, colleges, and nurseries across Tyne and Wear, and Northumberland. With 15+ years of experience and over 500 five-star reviews, we’re trusted by education providers to deliver safe, efficient, and fully compliant testing — with minimal disruption to learning.

• 🔧 Specialists in educational PAT testing

• 👷‍♂️ Fully qualified, DBS-checked engineers

• 📄 Digital certificates & reports included same-day

• 🕓 Flexible out-of-hours appointments

• 🛠 On-site minor repairs where possible

• ⭐ Trusted by hundreds of schools & public sector sites

We understand how schools operate — from safeguarding requirements to term-time schedules — and we tailor our service to suit your needs.

We test all electrical appliances used by staff and students, including:

• PCs, laptops, monitors, printers

• Projectors, smartboards, AV equipment

• Kitchen appliances, kettles, microwaves

• Fans, heaters, chargers, extension leads

• Science and DT department equipment

• IT suites and mobile devices

Whether it’s a single site or a multi-academy trust, we’ve got it covered.

Under the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989, schools must maintain electrical equipment in a safe condition. PAT testing is the industry standard way to prove this — and keep your risk assessments, insurance, and policies up to date.

We work around your schedule, with options to test:

• Before or after school hours

• During holidays or inset days

• With minimal disruption during the school day

All engineers are fully insured, DBS-checked, and trained to work in sensitive environments.

We cover the whole of the North East of England. From small nurseries to large secondary schools and academies, we provide a consistent, professional service every time.

We already do PAT testing in schools in Newcastle, North Tyneside, Gateshead, Sunderland, Durham and Teesside, so you can be assured that we are also set up on the contractors systems of many councils, and the reports we provide have been proven to satisfy not only the council but Ofsted too.

We currently work with over 100 schools across the region, ranging from Nurseries to Secondary schools. Our biggest facility to date has over 10,000 items.

We find that secondary schools, colleges etc are best done during holiday periods, whilst primary schools and nurseries can easily be done term time. For Primary we can have our team start when the caretaker opens up to get the classrooms done before the school day commences reducing disruption to your children and staff.

The importance of PAT testing in schools is relatively obvious – children may not yet know the importance of being careful around electrical equipment.

PAT testing is a necessary part of health and safety compliance in all education settings; with our help the situation can be made much easier.

We’ve been working in the education sector since 2009, and have many schools and nurseries in our client portfolio. We have helped and continue to help many schools maintain safe environments for their pupils to learn in.

PAT testing in a school needs doing regularly to ensure safe electrical equipment is maintained to protect the children using it; equipment in classrooms and other areas used by the students should be checked on an annual basis, but office equipment could be tested less often.

Some schools choose to do their own PAT testing in-house which seems like a cost saving solution but actually the loss of important staff members for long periods often outweighs the cost of a contractor.

For example, an experienced team will PAT test a secondary school with around 2-3000 items inside a week – this may take all of the 6 weeks holidays for the caretaker (most likely even longer); whilst we can do a primary school in a day, but that’ll take the caretaker a week or two. Can you do without his work for this amount of time? Not likely. That’s why you’re better of using us to do your schools’ PAT Testing.

Our PAT Testing Certificate Reports have been satisfying Ofsted inspectors for years so you don’t have to worry about that, and our engineers all hold enhanced DBS certificates.

How often should PAT testing be done in schools?
Most schools choose annual PAT testing, though some items may require more frequent checks depending on usage and environment.

Is PAT testing a legal requirement for schools?
While not named specifically in law, schools are legally required to maintain safe electrical equipment under the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989. PAT testing is the recognised method for demonstrating compliance.

Do your engineers have DBS checks?
Yes – all engineers are enhanced DBS-checked and trained to work in education settings.