Governor Assurance Plan
One annual plan. Built from your school's own priorities.
The Governor Assurance Plan is the board's single monitoring plan for the year. It draws on your school improvement priorities, every statutory monitoring role and, where it applies to your school, the CES or SIAMS faith strand, so the whole board works from one plan rather than three separate systems. Every priority gets a named governor and a term. Every visit closes with a filed report.
Included in SGAF membership, from £229 per school per year.
One board plan, built from your school's own SIP, statutory duties and, where it applies, faith visits
A named governor against every priority, every term
Every visit closes with a filed report, ready for the next meeting
Built by a governance practitioner, not a software company
How it works
Three steps, then the year runs itself
The plan is built once at the start of the year, then carries every governor through autumn, spring and summer.
Your priorities set the plan
The plan is built from your school's own improvement priorities, every statutory monitoring role and the faith strand where it applies. Nothing here is a blank template.
A named governor against every priority
Each priority is assigned to a governor by name, spread across autumn, spring and summer, so nobody wonders who is visiting or when.
Every visit closes with a filed report
The governor's evidence and confidence are recorded as the visit happens, so the next board meeting has something specific to discuss, not a verbal recap.
What feeds into the one plan
Three real sources, one annual plan. None of them is a separate purchase or a separate place to look.
- School Improvement Your school improvement plan turned into visits, staged across the year: Early Implementation in autumn, Emerging Impact in spring, Consolidation and Outcomes in summer. More on School Improvement →
- Statutory & Core Every statutory governor monitoring role, on the same three-term rhythm as the SIP visits. More on Statutory & Core →
- Faith visits For Catholic and Church of England schools, the CES or SIAMS strand joins the same plan. CES → · SIAMS →
Where it sits in the loop
Priorities and findings become owned action
Audit findings and school priorities become the Governor Assurance Plan here, before the year's work becomes the annual statement.
Audit
Guided checks and the termly website review surface what needs attention.
Risk
Findings become risks, each with an owner and a review date.
Action (this tool)
Priorities and findings become one plan the board owns.
Statement
The year's evidence becomes the board's annual account.
Oversight
Every school's position rolls up into one live view.
Real UI
Every priority, a name and a status
This is one school's actual plan, not a demo built for the site.
- A year-at-a-glance grid across every priority, autumn to summer
- Each priority carries the assigned governor's name against it
- A status of Completed, Pack ready or Open, so nobody has to ask
- A pack and a report ready to download for every visit
For every seat
What the plan gives each seat at the table
The same plan, read through the job you actually do.
Chair
One plan the whole board owns
The annual monitoring plan sits in one place, built once and shared by every governor, rather than living in one person's head or three separate documents.
Headteacher
Monitoring stays anchored to the SIP
Every visit traces back to a real improvement priority, so governor scrutiny lines up with what the school is actually working on this year.
Clerk
Every report filed the same way
Visit reports land in one place ready for the next board meeting, whichever of the three sources they came from.
Governor
Turn up knowing exactly what to monitor
A visit plan with your name against a priority and a term, drawn from your own school's SIP rather than a standard checklist.
Overseeing several schools? Every plan rolls up to one live view. See governance for trusts →
Common questions
How the Governor Assurance Plan works
The practical detail for boards weighing up the three strands.
Is the Governor Assurance Plan three different products?
No. It is one annual plan built from three real sources: your school improvement priorities, every statutory monitoring role and, where it applies, the faith strand. There is nowhere else to buy them separately and nowhere else to look for them.
Does every school get the faith strand?
It appears for Catholic and Church of England schools, carrying the CES or SIAMS visit schedule. Other schools do not see it: the plan only ever shows what applies to your school.
Does this replace our school improvement plan?
No. It turns the improvement plan you already have into a governor monitoring plan, with a named governor and a visit window against each priority. Your SIP stays your SIP.
What does a governor actually fill in on the day of a visit?
A short report against the priority they were visiting: what they saw, any concerns raised, the questions asked and their confidence in what they found. It is filed the same day, while the visit is fresh.
Is this an extra cost on top of membership?
No. All three strands of the Governor Assurance Plan are included in SGAF membership at both price points, with no add-on cost.
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