Policy review schedule: template and examples

Adapt our review schedule to help you keep track of all of your policies, and make sure they're up to date and compliant. Download the schedule to suit your maintained school, independent school or academy trust. See examples of how other multi-academy trusts have set their schedules.

Last reviewed on 21 January 2025See updates
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Contents
  1. Download our policy review schedule template
  2. Multi-academy trusts (MATs): additional information and examples
  3. Take a look at Robin, an AI-driven policy compliance tool

Download our policy review schedule template

Adapt it to your school or trust so that it reflects all the policies you have. Then, for each policy:

  • Include the last and next review dates 
  • Clarify the review frequency, where you can choose. Note, the DfE now recommends you review most policies annually
  • Add who approves it
  • Add who's responsible for it
  • Complete the actions log to know what your next steps are

The review schedules are based on our list of statutory policies and the policies we recommend you have. For more information and to download our models for many of these policies, visit our policy expert page. 

KeyDoc - policy review schedule - maintained schools XLSX, 29.7 KB
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KeyDoc - policy review schedule - academy trusts XLSX, 28.2 KB
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KeyDoc - policy review schedule - independent schools XLSX, 27.1 KB
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Multi-academy trusts (MATs): additional information and examples

Your scheme of delegation will clarify which policies you set centrally and which are delegated to your schools.