School Governance
Assurance Framework
Assurance Framework
Structured governance assurance for UK school governing boards.
Structured governance assurance for UK school governing boards.
Professional boards in every sector walk in with a pre-prepared briefing pack. Volunteer boards don't have the resources to commission one. The Board Intelligence Report closes that absence. It pulls published national data, applies it to your school, then layers in your uploaded SIP and your Headteacher Report. One board-ready briefing, compiled term by term, tracking how your governance position moves across the year.
Before every board meeting, someone has to pull together data from half a dozen sources. School details from GIAS. Inspection history from Ofsted. Trust filings from Companies House. Financial benchmarks from DfE. Workforce ratios from the DfE schools census. Governor records from the clerk. It takes hours, and it still arrives in fragments.
The board ends up making decisions on whichever data someone remembered to bring. Not because governors are not diligent, but because no system pulls this data together in one place.
The Board Intelligence Report closes that. It pulls published data from GIAS, Ofsted, Companies House and DfE, then layers in your uploaded SIP priorities and your Headteacher Report. Everything compiled into one document, term by term, tracking how the school's position develops across the year. No chasing. No spreadsheets. No fragments.
The Board Intelligence Report pulls published national data from GIAS, Ofsted, Companies House and DfE, then combines it with your uploaded SIP and your Headteacher Report to give the board the complete picture every term.
School profile and governor register. URN, phase, type, academy trust membership, headteacher, chair, governor terms and appointment dates.
Full inspection history. Latest grades, sub-judgements, governance commentary, months since inspection and the next-window estimate.
For academy trusts only. Director register, accounts status, confirmation statement and overdue-filing flags pulled live each generation.
Per-pupil spend across teaching, support staff, premises and back-office. Compared against a phase, size and LA-matched comparator group.
KS results for your phase. KS2 expected-plus attainment and progress scores, KS4 Progress 8 and Attainment 8, phonics screening pass rate.
Teacher headcount, pupil-teacher ratio and teacher sickness rate. Each figure compared against the national average.
Your uploaded School Improvement Plan. Priorities are extracted and surfaced in the report with their RAG status against the current term.
Termly data submitted by your head. Pupil numbers, attendance, behaviour, SEND, pupil premium, curriculum and budget narrative. Fed directly into the briefing.
Once every source has resolved, the report drafts a set of board priorities for this term and recommendations for the year, each anchored to a specific figure in the snapshot.
National data meets your school's context. Published data from external sources is combined with the SIP you have uploaded and the headteacher's termly report. The result is a single document that tracks the school's governance position across the year.
Each section gives governors what they need: context, data and trend, without overwhelming them. Sections that do not apply to your school are left out of the pack (Companies House is academy-trust only, SIP Progress only appears once a SIP is uploaded).
GIAS-verified identity. Type, phase, headteacher, LA, academy trust membership, religious character and denomination.
Full governor register from GIAS. Chair, members, vacancies, expired terms and statutory monitoring roles.
NOR against capacity from GIAS, plus the head's live overlay: reception intake against PAN, in-year joiners and leavers, projected September intake.
Published baseline plus this-term overlay from the Headteacher Report. Overall, persistent absence, FSM, SEND and CLA cohort breakdowns.
KS1, KS2 and KS4 outcomes against published cohorts. Attainment, progress scores and phonics screening where applicable to your phase.
Latest grades and sub-judgements, governance commentary, areas the school must address and the next-window estimate.
Strategy summary and outcomes. Allocation, spend to date, disadvantage attainment differentials across reading, writing and maths, intervention summary.
Register count, EHCPs, annual reviews completed against those due, SENCO qualification status.
Term counts: fixed-term exclusions, internal exclusions, suspensions. No individuals named.
Priorities pulled from your uploaded SIP with their RAG status for this term. Owners noted where the SIP lists them.
Academy trusts only. Director register, accounts and confirmation-statement status, any overdue filings.
DfE benchmarking. In-year balance, revenue reserve, per-pupil spend across teaching, support, premises and back-office against the comparator group.
Tactical attention pointers for this term, each anchored to a specific number in the snapshot. Paired with a tightly scoped action the board can minute.
Strategic commitments for the rest of the academic year. Higher-level than priorities: structural changes, policies to refresh, portfolios to rebalance.
The Intelligence evolves across the academic year. Each term builds on the last, creating a continuous record of your governance position.
Establish the starting position for the year.
Track movement against the autumn baseline.
Year-end position and readiness for next year.
Each school’s report rolls up to the Trust Command Centre, an exception-first estate view that surfaces which schools need attention right now, across attendance, safeguarding, finance, governance and workforce.
See the Trust Command Centre →