School Governance
Assurance Framework
Assurance Framework
Structured governance assurance for UK school governing boards.
Structured governance assurance for UK school governing boards.
A quick termly update for the board. The headteacher fills in the numbers governors need — pupil numbers, attendance, staffing, safeguarding — and it takes five minutes. The data feeds directly into the Board Intelligence Report, builds year-on-year trends automatically, and generates challenge questions that governors can bring to the meeting.
The headteacher fills in the numbers that matter. No reports to write, no documents to compile — just the data points governors need to hold leaders to account and track whether the school is on course.
Current NOR, reception intake, PAN, in-year joiners and leavers, projected September intake.
Overall %, persistent absence %, FSM attendance %, SEND attendance %, CLA attendance %.
Teaching vacancies, support vacancies, staff who have left this year, agency and supply spend.
Open cases, CPOMS entries this term, DSL training current status.
SIP priorities with termly RAG ratings, governor assignments, and progress commentary.
11 statutory monitoring roles tracked — safeguarding, SEND, attendance, finance, and more.
This is not a report the headteacher writes. It is a form they fill in.
The data feeds directly into the Board Intelligence Report, which builds trends over time and generates the challenge questions governors need to make every board meeting count.
Once per term, the headteacher enters the key data points. Pupil numbers, attendance, staffing, safeguarding. Five minutes.
The system tracks changes term by term and year on year. Governors see the direction of travel, not just a snapshot.
Based on the data and trends, AI generates specific challenge questions for governors to bring to the board meeting.
Governors arrive informed, with the right questions, focused on the right issues. Meetings drive school improvement instead of catching up.
Select the roles on your board and the system generates a duty checklist for each. No need to define what each role should be doing — it is already mapped.
Board leadership, headteacher appraisal, annual governance statement
Deputy leadership, succession planning, committee oversight
SCR oversight, safeguarding policy review, KCSIE compliance
SEND policy oversight, provision monitoring, outcomes tracking
PP strategy review, spending oversight, impact assessment
Budget monitoring, SFVS completion, financial benchmarking
Every RAG rating, every statutory duty check, every governor assignment — all of it flows into your Board Audit as evidence. The Report does not create new work. It turns work you are already doing into the evidence trail your framework needs.
When governors rate a priority Green, the corresponding framework element shows evidence of active school improvement monitoring — no manual logging needed.
Each term, the statutory assurance plan confirms whether governance roles are fulfilling their responsibilities. Gaps are visible before they become problems.
Governor names against priorities and roles. When Ofsted asks who is monitoring safeguarding or pupil premium spending, you have the answer documented.
Three terms of data. See whether priorities are improving, stalling, or regressing. Evidence of sustained governance, not just a single snapshot.