School website: publishing information about the governing board
Understand what governing board information you're required to publish on your school website, and download our checklists for maintained schools and academies to make sure you haven't missed anything out.
Contents
The rules: in summary
- All maintained schools and academies must publish up-to-date governance information on their websites
- The exact information required is different for maintained schools and academies
- It must be in a readily accessible form, meaning directly on to webpages, without the need to download or open a separate document
The Governance Handbook (section 5.5) sets this out.
Maintained school requirements
Use our checklist to make sure you've got everything covered:
The structure and remit of the governing board and any committees, and the full name of the chair of each one For each governor who has served at any point over the past 12 months: Their full name Their date of appointment Their term of office The date when they stepped down, where applicable The body which appointed them, in accordance with the governing board's instrument of government Their relevant business and pecuniary interests. Relevant interests include: A business interest in
Also in 'School websites'
- British values statements on school websites
- PE and sports grant reporting: requirements and template
- Publishing information: requirements for independent schools
- Pupil premium information: what you must publish
- Safeguarding statements: examples from school websites
- School websites: publishing curriculum information