Equality requirements and procedures

Take steps to tackle your gender pay gap and boost transparency for current and future staff with an action plan. Use our tips and template action plan to get started.

Find out about your requirements for providing collective worship and how to go about holding it. Be clear on whether pupils and teachers can choose not to attend.

Be clear on the duties for schools under the Equality Act 2010, what unlawful behaviour under the Act looks like and the general exceptions for schools.

Understand how to provide reasonable adjustments for pupils, staff and parents/carers with disabilities – including for school trips and after-school clubs.

Download and adapt our template equality impact assessment (EIA) to help you account for equality when writing or reviewing your policies.

If you have 250 or more employees in your school, you must publish and report specific figures about your school's gender pay gap. Understand what information you need to calculate the figures and use our template to present your data.

Schools are required to comply with the PSED. Understand what that means and find out the information your school could publish to demonstrate compliance. You can also see examples from primary, secondary and special schools.