For schools
One school. One system for the whole governance year.
SGAF is the Governance Operating System for UK schools and academy trusts. For a single governing board that means governor visit plans built from your school's own improvement priorities, the automated website compliance audit re-run every term, live risks and the evidence behind the annual statement, all in one connected place.
Membership from £229 per school per year.
Governor visits
Visit plans built from your school's own priorities
The board's monitoring plan starts from your school improvement plan, not a blank template. Each priority gets a named governor and a term, and every visit closes with a filed report.
Your priorities set the plan
The plan is built from your own school improvement priorities, so the board monitors what actually matters at your school this year.
A named governor for each one
Every priority is assigned to a governor by name across autumn, spring and summer, so nobody wonders who is doing what or when.
Every visit leaves a record
Each visit closes with a filed report, so the monitoring is evidenced as it happens, not reconstructed the week before an inspection.
Nothing here is a template you fill from a blank sheet. The plan is built around your school before the first visit, so the board turns up already knowing what to look at and who is looking.
Website compliance
Your website checked every term, not discovered late
The automated compliance audit runs in the background across the whole year, so a missing policy or an out-of-date page surfaces long before anyone asks for it.
It crawls every page and policy, re-runs each term and tracks the score over time. The board sees what changed without anyone re-checking the site by hand.
What the audit re-checks every term
- Statutory policies published and in date
- The information the law requires present on the site
- Broken or missing pages flagged for the board
- The compliance score tracked term over term
How it connects
One connected loop, for a single school
Audit findings become risks, risks become actions, actions become the annual statement. The evidence is already there when the board needs it.
Audit
Guided checks surface what needs attention this term.
Risk
Each finding lands as a risk with an owner and a review date.
Action
Risks become visit plans and actions the board can track.
Statement
The year's evidence assembles into the annual statement.
Kept moving term by term by visit plans built from your priorities and meeting cycles that turn each decision into filed evidence. The Quality Standard grades the whole system and External Validation proves it.
For every seat
Built for the people who run your governing board
The same system, whatever your role at the table.
Chair
Carry the board, not the binder
- The annual assurance plan belongs to the board, not one person
- Each audit finding becomes a risk with a named owner
- The whole board's position sits on one screen before every meeting
Headteacher
Answer "how do you know?" from evidence already on file
- One termly report feeds the board briefing, the risk register and the annual statement
- Website compliance re-checked every term, never found late
- The year's work is filed as you go, so inspection finds it ready
Clerk
Run the whole governance term from one desk
- Agendas assembled from the framework in minutes
- Minutes scored for challenge and filed as evidence
- Every meeting closes with a dated, verifiable record
Governor
Arrive knowing exactly what to monitor
- A visit plan with your name against a priority
- Checks delegated to you by link, each with a deadline
- A filed report at the close of every visit
Governor visit plans built from your school's own improvement priorities
The website compliance audit re-checked every term
20+ governance checks, delegated and tracked in the Audit Hub
Built by a governance practitioner, not a software company
Pricing
One price per school. Everything included.
One annual price per school with every member tool included. No feature tiers, no add-ons.
Primary / Nursery
£229
per school per year
Secondary / FE
£329
per school per year
Invoice and purchase order accepted, billed once a year. A data processing agreement is ready to sign before any pupil or governor data is entered.
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