Website requirements: academies and academy trusts

Find out what academies need to publish online, and if you’re in a multi-academy trust, what your trust website needs to include. Use our checklists to help you comply.

Last reviewed on 10 November 2025See updates
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Contents
  1. Download our checklist 
  2. Check your website requirements here
  3. Guidance for nurseries
  4. Publishing data for small cohorts
  5. Publishing performance data in special academies 
  6. Linking to your multi-academy trust's website 
  7. UK GDPR and equality requirements for your website
  8. Ofsted expectations
  9. Get updated about changes to your policy requirements 
  10. Take a look at Robin, an AI-driven compliance checking tool

This checklist applies to single academy trusts as well as individual academies within MATs. If you're looking for a checklist which applies to MATs as a whole, select the 'MATs' tab at the top of the page. If you're in a maintained school, go to this article to find out what you need to publish online.

Download our checklist 

This checklist summarises the information that academies, including free schools, are usually required to publish on their websites.

Check your funding agreement to understand exactly what you're required to publish online.

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It's based on the DfE guidance on what academies and further education colleges must or should publish online and further legislation listed in the sources in the checklist above.

If a parent/carer requests a paper copy of any of the information on your school’s website, you should provide this free of charge.

Check your website requirements here

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