Structured governance assurance for UK school governing boards.
What membership unlocks
Everything your board needs to evidence its decisions, hold leaders to account and run the whole governance year. £229 per primary / £329 per secondary, per school per year.
The connected assurance loop
The board is not left with another report to interpret. Findings can move into the Risk Register, then into the Governance Improvement Plan, then into the Annual Governance Statement, with trust leaders seeing the pattern across every school.
20+ governance, compliance and readiness audits surface the findings the board should consider.
The system suggests risks. The board adds or dismisses them.
Risks and findings become owned actions with RAG, owner and due date.
The year's work becomes a board-adopted governance statement.
Every school's risk and assurance picture rolls up to the centre.
Not another standalone governance tool. A live assurance loop that shows what governors found, what they decided, what they owned and what progress they made.
What's included
Each tool feeds the next. The data the head submits once, the audits governors complete and the risks the board confirms all become part of the same evidence trail.
Governor visits
Upload the School Improvement Plan. Priorities are extracted into a structured plan of governor visits across the year.
Governor visits
Every statutory monitoring role, each with a term-by-term visit plan and downloadable report.
Compliance
Goes inside every linked PDF, checks spelling and grammar, flags missing or out-of-date policies and surfaces safeguarding signals a regex crawler cannot see. Returns a report plus an action file to resolve and tick off each issue.
Meetings
Structured agendas mapped to every part of the framework. Each item specific, time-bound, with a challenge question for governors.
Meetings
Upload the minutes. The tool returns a confidential score across six dimensions of strategic challenge, extracts the specific moments of challenge captured, and names the structural patterns to tighten. The board can sharpen its minutes before an inspector reads them.
Reports for the board
One short termly submission, configured at trust level. The head submits once. Every other tool reads the data.
Reports for the board
The membership upgrade to the free School Data Check. Live in-year figures from the Headteacher Report the moment the head submits.
Reports for the board
The termly board pack a volunteer board never had the resources to commission. Published data, Audit Hub posture, risks, governance records and the Headteacher Report, pulled into one pack for governors.
For faith schools
Structured inspection readiness for Catholic (CES) and Church of England (SIAMS) schools, with visit plans and monitoring records governors can file as evidence.
For trusts
Full trust oversight. Per-school assurance flows up to the centre, so leaders see attendance, safeguarding, finance, governance, risk and workforce alongside each school's governance position. (In-product label: Trust Dashboard.)
For trusts
A smart risk register at the heart of governance. Audit Hub findings become suggested risks; the board adds or dismisses them, then owns the live register.
Reports for the board
The board action plan for governance. Findings and risks become tracked actions with a clear owner, RAG status, due date and provenance.
Reports for the board
A board-adopted statement of the year's governance work, built from the school's own assurance data and the progress governors have recorded.
£229primary, per school / year
£329 per secondary. Every member tool included. Same per-school price across a MAT or LA, no volume discount. Invoice or purchase order accepted.
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Why this exists
School improvement has a system for the curriculum. For safeguarding. For data. For staff development. Every part of a school is built on a structure someone can point at.
Governance has not had one. The result: boards working hard, doing the right things, with nothing to show for it when someone asks "how do you know?". The framework gives the work a shape, so what governors do becomes visible.
Pricing
Primary / Nursery
£229
per school / year
Nursery and primary schools.
Secondary / FE
£329
per school / year
Secondary schools and further education.
Every member tool included at both prices. No feature tiers. External QS verification is a separate paid product. Invoice or purchase order accepted. Annual billing.
Multi-Academy Trust or Local Authority? Same per-school price across a MAT or LA, one invoice, no volume discount. The trust value is the full oversight layer: school-by-school assurance, live risk, governance actions and trust-wide patterns in one place. Book a walkthrough →
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