Structured governance assurance for UK school governing boards.

For trust leaders

Every school, the same standard, one live view

SGAF is the Governance Operating System for UK schools and academy trusts. Whether you lead as Trust CEO or as Governance Lead, that means an exception grid showing which schools need attention across attendance, safeguarding, finance, governance and workforce, one audit programme run to the same standard in every school, and a risk rollup and completion grid ready for the trustee pack. It reads the work each school already does, so there is nothing new for the schools to enter.

Per-school pricing across the estate, with central oversight included.

The Trust Command Centre exception grid showing every school's position across attendance, safeguarding, finance, governance and workforce
Shown here: every school's position across five domains, in one live view for the central team.

Your term with SGAF

A trust leader's year, mapped out

Three points in the year where the estate's governance reads as one picture instead of many separate ones.

Every school, every term

Nothing new for the schools to enter

Audits, risks, actions and termly headteacher reports happen in every school inside the same connected system. As Governance Lead you run one audit programme, delegated by link with a deadline, across the whole estate. As Trust CEO you see the risks rolling up from every school as they change. Neither view asks a school to report twice.

Before the meeting

Exceptions surface before you go looking

The exception grid gives every school a status across attendance, safeguarding, finance, governance and workforce, so the meeting is spent on the schools that need a conversation, not the ones that are fine. A completion grid alongside it shows exactly who has done what across the estate, with reminders chasing the outstanding checks.

The Trust Command Centre exception grid with every school's status across five domains

For the trustee pack

The board pack arrives already built

The risk rollup and the completion grid export straight into the trustee pack, so no one rebuilds a table the night before the meeting. Termly headteacher reports feed the same oversight view as they land, so what the central board reads is never more than a term out of date.

An exception grid across five domains: attendance, safeguarding, finance, governance and workforce

One audit programme across the estate, with a completion grid showing who has done what

Termly headteacher reports feed one oversight view

Built by a governance practitioner, not a software company

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See every school's governance in one live view, with your own estate in front of you.

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