Structured governance assurance for UK school governing boards.

Audit Hub

Audit findings should become risk, action and annual assurance.

SGAF Membership gives boards a serious Audit Hub: 20+ governance, compliance and readiness audits connected to the Risk Register, Governance Improvement Plan, Annual Governance Statement and trust oversight.

Why it matters

Most audit tools stop at the finding.

That is the weak point in school governance assurance. A board can complete a useful audit, spot the issue, and still be left asking what happens next.

SGAF closes that loop. Audit Hub findings can be considered as risks, turned into owned governor actions, reported through board intelligence and carried into the year's Annual Governance Statement.

The Audit Hub is the coverage layer. It gives the board the audit breadth it needs, then carries the findings into the places where governance actually happens.

Membership product

20+ audits, one assurance loop.

The Audit Hub is the evidence engine inside SGAF Membership. It does not leave governors with isolated reports. It moves findings into the tools boards already use to manage risk, action, reporting and trust oversight.

Audit Hub is the member system, not a collection of disconnected checks.
  • Audit Hub coverage20+ audits across statutory oversight, compliance, inclusion, finance, faith and governance.
  • Website Compliance AuditThe member audit is deeper than the free Website Check-up and built for ongoing statutory oversight.
  • Findings become risksThe board adds or dismisses suggested risks in the live Risk Register.
  • Risks become actionsGovernor actions move into the Governance Improvement Plan with owner, RAG and due date.
  • Actions become annual assuranceThe year's work feeds the Annual Governance Statement.
  • Trust leaders see the patternSchools roll up into one trust oversight view.
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Audit Hub coverage

Not one readiness check. A full board assurance catalogue.

Membership gives the board a serious audit programme across the governance year. Each audit is designed to surface the finding, create the evidence trail and move the issue into the live system.

Statutory oversight

The core areas governors are expected to know, challenge and keep under review.

  • Safeguarding
  • SEND
  • Attendance
  • Health & Safety
  • Behaviour & Exclusions
  • Restrictive Interventions
  • Children in Care

Inclusion, curriculum and outcomes

Checks that help the board see whether pupils are being served equitably.

  • Curriculum
  • Pupil Premium
  • Pupil Wellbeing
  • Personal Development
  • Careers
  • Early Years
  • Sixth Form

Compliance and operations

Board-level checks for the operational risks that often sit between reports.

  • Finance
  • Admissions
  • Data Protection
  • Complaints
  • Website Compliance
  • AI Governance
  • Martyn's Law

Governance, faith and improvement

The audits that connect board practice, school improvement and faith inspection evidence.

  • Quality Standard
  • Governor Induction
  • School Improvement
  • SIAMS
  • CES
  • External Validation

That is the difference. The Audit Hub is not a library of PDFs or a page of quick checks. It is the starting point for risk, action, reporting, annual assurance and trust-wide oversight.

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What happens after an audit?

1Audit finding

The board completes an audit and the weak area is captured.

2Suggested risk

The Risk Register suggests the risk. The board adds or dismisses it.

3Owned action

Actions move into the Governance Improvement Plan with owner, RAG and due date.

4Annual statement

Progress is carried into the Annual Governance Statement.

5Trust oversight

Leaders see the pattern across schools, not scattered fragments.

Starter routes

Boards can still start without membership.

The free tools are useful doorways into SGAF. They are no longer the story of this page. Membership is where those findings connect into the Audit Hub and assurance loop.

Website Check-up School Data Check Safeguarding Readiness Governor Induction Become a Governor AI Readiness Martyn's Law Readiness Faith Inspection Readiness Quality Standard

Membership turns the Audit Hub into a governance operating system.

The Audit Hub is one part of the member system. The value is what happens next: risks, actions, board papers, annual assurance and trust-wide oversight.

All included from £229 a school, a year.

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