School Governance
Assurance Framework
Assurance Framework
Structured governance assurance for UK school governing boards.
Structured governance assurance for UK school governing boards.
Three reports per academic year — one per term — track your governance progress across Autumn, Spring, and Summer. The term tracker shows how your governance health score changes over time. Share before board meetings to ensure governors are informed of priorities, development, and impact.
Before every board meeting, someone has to pull together data from half a dozen sources. School details from GIAS. Inspection history from Ofsted. Trust information from Companies House. Financial benchmarks from DfE. Pupil numbers from the school census. Board composition from the clerk. It takes hours, and it still comes in fragments.
The result is a board that makes decisions based on whichever data someone remembered to bring. Not because governors are not diligent, but because no system brings all this data together in one place.
The Intelligence fixes this. It automatically pulls data from every source that matters — including SIP progress and statutory monitoring from The Report — and assembles it into a single, professionally formatted report. It collects trends, offers challenge, and gives the board full transparency and insight. No chasing. No spreadsheets. No gaps.
The Intelligence pulls from every data source that matters for school governance, so your board never has to piece it together manually.
Automatic school lookup — URN, phase, type, trust membership, governor details, chair of governors, and appointment dates.
Full inspection history — dates, overall effectiveness grades, key findings, and time since last inspection across all judgement areas.
For academy trusts: director and trustee details, company status, filing history, and confirmation statement compliance.
Financial benchmarking data — per-pupil spend, staffing costs as a percentage of income, and comparisons with similar schools.
Progress against the GAF framework — how many elements are secure, developing, or not yet started across all 3 award stages.
Number on Roll trends, pupil projections, staffing ratios — teacher and support staff numbers tracked over time.
SIP progress tracking and statutory role monitoring — term-by-term trends, RAG ratings, and governor challenge evidence fed directly in.
Full transparency and insight. The Intelligence collects trends from every source, surfaces challenge questions, and gives the board a complete picture — not a summary, but a live governance position.
Each section gives governors exactly what they need — context, data, and trends — without overwhelming them.
GIAS-verified school data — type, phase, headteacher, LA, trust.
AI-generated priorities from board audit gaps and Ofsted commentary.
Governor register with term dates, expiry flags, and vacancies.
Director filings, accounts status, GIAS discrepancies.
Score across 8 categories with open issues and policy status.
Grades, governance commentary, recommendations, next window.
Spending composition, risk analysis, and research-backed governor intelligence.
Health score, stage breakdown, developing areas.
Total entries, coverage, and recent evidence logged.
Pupil numbers vs capacity, financial correlation, and strategic risk.
KS2/KS4 results, progress scores, phonics, and absence from school website.
Prioritised, school-specific actions.
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.