Your school website is the first thing Ofsted sees
Before an inspector sets foot in your school, they visit your website. The Checker scans every page against DfE statutory requirements and gives you a compliance score in under 60 seconds. Free. No sign-up required.
Policies lapse. Pages go stale. Nobody notices.
Most schools treat their website as a compliance afterthought. Statutory policies go out of date. Governor details fall behind. Curriculum pages reference last year's priorities. Safeguarding information gets buried. None of this is deliberate — it happens because nobody has time to check every page, every term.
When Ofsted arrives, the first thing an inspector does is look at the school website. If it is incomplete, inaccurate, or contradicts what the school says in person, that shapes the conversation before it has even begun.
The Checker does in 60 seconds what would take an individual days of work. It crawls every page, reads every policy, cross-references GIAS data, and tells you exactly where the gaps are — with direct links to the evidence.
99 checks across 11 compliance categories
Every check maps to a statutory requirement or recognised standard. Every finding links to the source page on your website.
DfE Statutory Content
School name, contact details, headteacher, chair, admissions, Ofsted report, performance data, curriculum, ethos, uniform, and school opening hours.
Admissions & Careers
Published admission number, oversubscription criteria, in-year admissions, appeals timetable. Careers lead, programme, impact, and Baker Clause (secondary).
Statutory Policies
Behaviour, complaints, safeguarding, SEND, pupil premium, charging, RSE, equality, accessibility, PE and sport premium, and provider access.
Governance Transparency
Governor names, categories, terms of office, attendance, departure dates, register of interests, committee structure, academy documents, and general enquiry contact.
Financial Compliance
Pupil premium strategy (DfE template), PE and sport premium with swimming data, annual accounts, executive pay disclosure, financial benchmarking link, and gender pay gap.
SEND & Inclusion
SEN Information Report, SENCO named, Local Offer link, provision types, disabled pupils’ admission, prevent less favourable treatment, facilities access, and SEN complaints.
Safeguarding Visibility
Child protection policy visible, DSL and deputy named, safer recruitment statement, Prevent duty reference, and whistleblowing procedures.
Accessibility (WCAG 2.2)
Alt text on images, heading hierarchy, form labels, table headers, page titles, link text, language attributes, ARIA landmarks, and accessibility statement with review date.
Sustainability
Average page weight, image dimensions, lazy loading, external script bloat, inline scripts, cache headers, content compression, and green hosting verification via the Green Web Foundation.
GDPR & Privacy
Privacy notice published, cookie consent mechanism, data retention policy, and compliance with UK GDPR requirements for school websites.
Content Quality
Broken links, draft pages left live, inconsistent school naming, and outdated content detection powered by AI verification.
Parent-Facing Information
Beyond compliance, we extract key information parents look for — giving governors a complete picture of how the school presents itself online.
Go deeper with the
full Website Assurance
The free Checker gives you the compliance picture. The full Website Assurance goes further — tracking policy currency, flagging security risks under Martyn’s Law, checking content quality across every page, and monitoring seasonal DfE deadlines. Every finding feeds directly into your Board Audit as evidence.
Three steps. Under a minute.
Enter your website URL
Paste your school website address. Or enter a URN and we will look it up for you.
We scan everything
Our engine crawls every page, downloads policies, cross-references GIAS data, and checks accessibility and sustainability. 99 checks in under 60 seconds.
Get your compliance score
A detailed report with percentage scores, prioritised actions, and evidence links that feed directly into your Board Audit.
Every finding becomes governance evidence
The Checker does not just flag problems. It connects every finding to your Board Audit — pre-populating evidence across 26 governance elements. Accessibility and sustainability scores give you a complete picture of your digital governance. One scan does two jobs.
Website evidence auto-populated
Findings map to framework elements with live URLs. Confirm with one click instead of hours of manual evidence gathering.
Governor details verified
Names and roles on your website are cross-checked against GIAS. Discrepancies are flagged before an inspector finds them.
PDF report for the clerk
Download and share with the headteacher, clerk, or website manager. A prioritised action list — not a generic checklist.
Track improvements over time
Re-run the check after changes are made. See what was fixed and what remains — without chasing anyone for updates.