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Equality requirements and procedures
- Accessibility plan: requirements Your school must have an accessibility plan. Find out what your plan needs to include, and follow our step-by-step guide to make sure you stay compliant.
- Accessibility plans: audit checklists Do you have examples of accessibility audit templates? We link to school accessibility audit checklists from a local authority and a disability access audit consultancy. We also link to a school's completed checklist, and relay advice from one of our experts about how often audits should be conducted.
- Daily collective worship: requirements and guidance Find out about your requirements for providing collective worship. Plus, find out whether pupils and teachers can withdraw.
- Equality Act 2010 Schools have specific duties under the Equality Act 2010. Be clear on how the Act protects people and what your duties are.
- Equality Act 2010: reasonable adjustments Know the rules about providing reasonable adjustments for pupils and staff with disabilities, and be sure about how to decide whether an adjustment would be 'reasonable'. You can also find guidance on adjustments for school trips and providing auxiliary aids.
- Gender pay gap reporting: template and requirements If you’ve got more than 250 employees in your school, you need to publish and report specific figures about your school's gender pay gap. Find out how to calculate the figures and use our template to present your data.
- Single equality schemes: examples You're no longer required to produce a single equality scheme, but may still find it useful to do so. See a template scheme from a local authority, and get examples from primaries, secondaries and a special school.
- The Public Sector Equality Duty in schools: demonstrating compliance What information could we publish to show we comply with the PSED? We relay Department for Education guidance on the kind of information schools could publish to demonstrate compliance. We also link to examples of published information from primary, secondary and special schools.
- The Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED) in schools What must schools do under the Public Sector Equality Duty (PSED)? The PSED applies to all schools and replaces previous equality duties related to race, disability and gender. We look at Department for Education advice on the PSED and outline what schools need to do to meet the requirements.