The governance operating system
Every part of a school has a system. Governance never has. Until now.
SGAF is the Governance Operating System for UK schools and academy trusts. The full governance quality and assurance system: automated website compliance checks, governor visit plans built from your school's priorities, live risks and the evidence behind the annual statement.
Membership from £229 per school per year.
Or see where your board stands with a free check.
20+ governance checks, delegated and tracked in the Audit Hub
Statutory, core and trust-level monitoring built into the annual cycle
Live school data, website compliance and risk evidence in one board view
Designed by a governance practitioner, not a software company
How it works
Audit findings become risks. Risks become actions. Actions become the annual statement.
One connected loop, running term after term, so the evidence is already there when the board needs it.
Audit
Guided audits surface what needs attention this term.
Risk
Each finding lands as a risk with an owner and a review date.
Action
Risks become actions and visit plans the board can track.
Statement
The year's evidence assembles into the annual governance statement.
Trust oversight
Trusts see every school's position in one live view.
Kept moving term by term by visit plans built from your school's priorities and meeting cycles that turn each decision into filed evidence. The Quality Standard grades the whole system and External Validation proves it.
For every role
Built for the people who run governance
Pick your seat at the table and see what changes.
Chair
The whole board's position on one screen
- Annual assurance plan the board shares, not one person carries
- Every audit finding lands as a risk with an owner
- Governance that survives your departure
Headteacher
Answer "how do you know?" with evidence that already exists
- One termly report feeds board intelligence, the risk register and the annual statement
- Website compliance tracked termly, not discovered late
- Inspection-ready because the year's work is already filed
Clerk
The desk that runs the governance term
- Agendas built from the framework in minutes
- Minutes scored for challenge and filed as evidence
- Every meeting ends with a verifiable artefact
Governor
Turn up knowing exactly what to monitor
- A structured visit plan with your name on it
- Checks delegated to you by link, with a deadline
- A filed report at the end of every visit
Trust CEO
Every school's governance in one live view
- Risks roll up from every school as they change
- Exceptions surface without chasing
- Termly headteacher reports feed central oversight
Governance Lead
The same standard in every school you oversee
- One audit programme across the estate
- A completion grid showing who has done what
- Delegation with deadlines and automatic reminders
Two front doors
One school, or every school
The same operating system, whether you run one governing board or oversee an estate.
For schools
One school, one system
Every audit, risk, visit plan and statement for a single school, connected term to term.
- Governor visit plans built from your school's priorities
- The automated website compliance audit, re-run every term
- Audit findings that become tracked risks and actions
For trusts
Every school, one live view
Risks, audits and headteacher reports roll up from every school into one oversight view.
- Exceptions surface without chasing
- A completion grid across the estate
- Central oversight included in per-school pricing
Proof
The work is the proof.
Every audit, visit and meeting leaves a dated record behind it, so the evidence is already there when the board needs it.
20+
audits in the Audit Hub
11
statutory monitoring roles covered
7
live data sources feeding Board Intelligence
Pricing
One price. Everything included.
One annual price per school with every member tool included. No feature tiers, no add-ons.
Primary / Nursery
£229
per school per year
Secondary / FE
£329
per school per year
Invoice and purchase order accepted. Annual billing. Trusts pay per school with central oversight included; we agree the detail on a short call.
Not ready to talk? See where your board stands first.
Run a free check →Why SGAF exists
Governance does not need another checklist. It needs an operating system.
SGAF turns the work boards already do into one connected cycle: monitoring, risk, evidence and the annual statement.
Joshua Mangas
Founder, SGAF
Built from twenty years inside school governance and nearly 500 schools supported across Lancashire. SGAF starts with how governing boards actually work, then gives that work a system.
The board does the governance once. The evidence is created as it goes.
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