Outside Caterers MS EES licence

[markwilfan]

Currently we have an in house catering service that the school run. The catering manager is included in our FTE count. In January all kitchen staff are being taken on by Pabulum, a third party school catering company and I'm unsure as to whether our catering manager will be correctly licenced. I understand our EES licence would cover contractors but as I understand it according to MS she would not be a contractor as she will be paid by Pabulum and not us.

 

Anybody had experience of this before? If you have Pabulum as your caterer what do you do? I would be interested in hearing the amount of support you offer them too.

 

I have recommended that the company install their own kit with the correct licences to be safe but I just need evidence either way.

[3s-gtech]

They’re not your employees, so aren’t included in your FTE (or whatever it is now) count, and aren’t covered by your licence. They’d need to sort their own licensing out. It gets really awkward if they’re still using the school’s kit, but I’d guess that won’t be the case?

[markwilfan]

Just had a reply from our licencing partner who said it's fine. Doesn't sound right to me. I think @3s-gtech is correct Edited December 3, 2019 by markwilfan

[FN-GM]

When I worked in schools the IT service was for employees and students. People employed by a third party are not employees. As a result they provided and used their own IT equipment, software etc. Facilities Management was an example.

[Mr.Ben]

I would offer them a traded service

[markwilfan]

Support for Bacon butties?

[bald_pig]

Pabulum provided their own IT equipment and their own internet connection at the school I worked at that used Pabulum

[jimmy_2k]

Our caterers offered to supply their own PC and they used a mixture of Open Office and their own office 365 license. We supplied the PC in the end so we could support them IT wise and it has a copy of our Office software on it. As the school own the PC and treat it as a school computer which is on our asset register we install our software on it if needed. In terms of who using a school computer, we also have outside agencies using our computers along with agency teaching staff so we couldn't say outsiders can't use our computers for licensing reasons.

[DrBeaker]

Simple answer is make the company supply and manage their own kit and software. Not your employees, not your problem. Remember as soon as you touch it, it's forever YOU who have worked on it.

 

We've had this discussion with Inventry and their PC when they told me I could install Antivirus on it. No mate, not my kit, not my problem.

Edited December 13, 2019 by DrBeaker