School Governance
Assurance Framework
Assurance Framework
Structured governance assurance for UK school governing boards.
Structured governance assurance for UK school governing boards.
A consistent termly update for the board. The headteacher fills in the numbers governors need: pupil numbers, attendance, staffing, safeguarding. The data feeds directly into the Board Intelligence Report, builds year-on-year trends term by term, and generates challenge questions that governors can bring to the meeting.
The headteacher fills in the numbers that matter, across every part of the school. 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 and persistent absence, plus the FSM, SEND and looked-after cohorts.
Teaching and support vacancies, turnover this year, agency and supply spend.
In-year position, variance against plan, revenue reserve and any financial concerns.
Each School Improvement Plan priority with a termly RAG rating and progress commentary.
Fixed-term and internal exclusions, suspensions and the behaviour picture this term.
Allocation, spend to date and disadvantaged pupils’ attainment by subject.
Register and EHCP counts, annual reviews completed and due, SENCO qualification.
Curriculum strength, subject deep dives and Ofsted EIF readiness.
Open cases, CPOMS, DSL training, statutory H&S checks and complaints.
The headline inspection data Ofsted opens with, captured alongside everything else.
On a multi-academy trust, every school’s submission rolls up to the Trust dashboard, so the central board sees all of this for every school in one place, not school by school.
See the Trust Command Centre →The Headteacher Report is one tool in your membership, and the one the others lean on. The moment the head submits, the same figures power four more places, with nothing re-keyed and no new paperwork.
The termly board pack assembles around the submission, with trends and the challenge questions governors bring to the meeting.
See Board Intelligence → Member toolThis term’s figures overlay the public DfE data, so the board reads current numbers, not last year’s snapshot.
See the Data Check → EvidenceEvery RAG rating and duty check lands as a dated entry in your governance evidence trail. No separate logging.
See the Quality Standard → For trustsAcross a MAT, every head’s submission collates into the Trust dashboard, with a trust-wide aggregate export for the central board.
Trust membership →Once per term, the headteacher enters the key data points. Pupil numbers, attendance, staffing, safeguarding. One short submission.
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, the report sets out 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.