Your school website is your governance shop window
It is what parents, the community and inspectors see first. The annual website audit is a statutory governor duty, and one volunteer usually carries it alone. The Check-up runs that audit in under 60 seconds. Free, no sign-up, open to anyone.
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 Statutory policies go out of date.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.
Governors are volunteers. One of their remits is ensuring the school website is audited annually, with evidence the audit happened. That is a heavy task for any single governor to carry alone. The Check-up runs the audit and produces the dated evidence in one act.
The Check-up does in 60 seconds what would take an individual days of work. It crawls every page, scans every linked policy document, cross-references GIAS data and tells you exactly what is missing, with direct links to the evidence.
Every statutory requirement. Every recognised standard.
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 provider access for secondary schools.
Statutory Policies
Behaviour, complaints, safeguarding, SEND, pupil premium, charging, RSE, equality, accessibility, PE and sport premium, and provider access. Policy review dates also checked.
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 on the DfE template, PE and sport premium with swimming data, annual accounts, executive pay disclosure, financial benchmarking link and gender pay reporting.
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, Designated Safeguarding Lead 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.
Policy Review Dates
Every linked statutory policy is scanned for its last reviewed or next review date. Overdue policies are flagged, and a policy review calendar is produced for the board.
Parent-Facing Information
Beyond compliance, we extract key information parents look for, giving governors a complete picture of how the school presents itself online.
Anyone can run the check. Anyone can share the report.
Parents, teachers, governors, clerks, heads, CEOs. No login. No technical or compliance background needed. Run the check, download the PDF, share the link. The annual website audit stops resting on one volunteer governor remembering to do it.
Schools that want the deeper audit, with every PDF opened and every page read, move to the full Website Compliance below. Same scan, more depth, included in membership.
Go deeper with the
full Website Compliance
The free Check-up gives you the compliance picture. The full Website Compliance audit opens every linked policy document, verifies the content matches the title, scores PDF accessibility, screens for Martyn’s Law exposures and surfaces the spelling errors, dead links and stale information a regex scan cannot see. Every finding becomes governance evidence inside your framework.
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. Every statutory requirement, in under 60 seconds.
Get your compliance score
A detailed report with percentage scores, prioritised actions and evidence links that feed directly into your Quality Standard.
Every finding becomes governance evidence
The Check-up does not just flag problems. The audit and the dated evidence are the same act. Accessibility, sustainability and statutory compliance are scored together, so the board sees one picture of how the website is governed.
Every finding linked to its source
Each pass, warning or fail links to the exact page or document on your website. No hunting through the site to verify a finding.
Governor details cross-referenced
Names and roles on your website are cross-checked against GIAS. Discrepancies are flagged before an inspector finds them.
PDF report for the board
Download the full report as a PDF and share the link with anyone who needs it. A prioritised action list, not a generic checklist.
Track improvements over time
Re-run the check after changes are made. See what has been fixed and what remains, without chasing anyone for an update.