- Website requirements: maintained schools
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Use our checklist to find out what information you need to publish on your school's website and how to keep your website compliant. Understand what data to publish for nurseries, pupil referral units, schools with small cohorts and special schools. - 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.
- British values statements on school websites
Find out how you can use a British values statement on your website to set out a meaningful commitment for your school community.
- Website requirements: academies and academy trusts
Find out what individual 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.
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- Publishing information: requirements for independent schools
Find out which information you're required to make available to parents and what to publish on your website. Use our checklist to help you stay compliant.
- Marketing to parents and carers: make your school stand out
Let prospective parents and carers know about your school's unique selling points. Adapt our template marketing plan to make sure you're getting the most out of your social media, newsletters and website.
- Register of business and pecuniary interests
Find out about your requirements for publishing a register of business and pecuniary interests on maintained school and academy trust websites. This covers roles such as governors, trustees and members of the trust.
- Attendance: national, LA and school data
Compare your school's attendance data to others locally and nationally, using our summary of the data and templates. Learn how the data is collected and how to make your own data tables using the DfE website.
- Local offer: what you need to know
Find out what the local offer is and what it means for your school. See examples from different local authorities, and how schools refer to the local offer on their websites.
- PE and sport grant reporting: requirements and template
Get up to speed with what you need to publish about the primary PE and sport premium on your website. You'll find guidance on the DfE's new reporting tool, or a template report you can use. Plus, see examples from other schools.
- Safeguarding statements: examples from school websites
See examples from schools to help you introduce your safeguarding policies with a written safeguarding statement.
- School improvement plan: template, checklist and monitoring guidance
Download one of our school improvement plan (SIP) templates and use our checklist to help you evaluate your SIP. Learn how you can monitor implementation of your SIP.
- School resource management self-assessment: summary
Academy trusts must complete the school resource management self-assessment checklist every year. Find out what it covers, so you know what to expect. - How to manage complaints: checklist and guidance
Complaints can be a big worry for all involved. Be clear on how to investigate complaints about your school and download our checklist to help you carry out a formal investigation.
- Handover checklist for school business managers (SBMs)
Download our handover checklist to help your new school business manager (SBM) settle into their role. It includes tasks and information related to finance, premises management and HR.
- School business manager: task checklists
Use our checklists to make sure you're staying on top of your SBM tasks for the 2024/25 academic year. Find checklists and deadlines for yearly, termly and monthly tasks.
- SEND policy: model and examples
Download and adapt our model SEND policy, or get help writing your own with our checklist and some examples from schools and trusts.
- School trip health and safety: planning checklist and guidance
Ahead of a school trip, use our checklist and find guidance to help you feel confident you’ve considered everything from a health, safety and safeguarding perspective.
- Challenging the placement of a pupil with SEND: guidance and checklist
There will be times when you can't meet the needs of a pupil with an education, health and care (EHC) plan. Understand your requirements and use our checklist to help you make the best case to your LA if you want to challenge a pupil's placement at your school.