Accessibility plan: model and examples

Under the Equality Act 2010, all schools are required to have an accessibility plan, but you're free to decide on its format.

The plan should cover how you intend to:

• Increase the extent to which pupils with disabilities can participate in the curriculum
• Improve the physical environment to enable pupils with disabilities to take better advantage of the education, benefits, facilities and services you provide
• Improve the availability of accessible information to pupils with disabilities

You're not required to have a separate accessibility policy, although some schools set out their accessibility plan in a document with an accessibility policy (as in 1 of the school examples below).

Download our model accessibility plan

It's designed for you to easily adapt to suit the context of your school.

Model accessibility plan (schools) DOC, 234.0 KB Download

Our plan is:

You're not required to publish your accessibility plan on your website, but it should be published in an