Automated Website Compliance
Your website, checked every term, not discovered late
SGAF is the Governance Operating System for UK schools and academy trusts. Automated Website Compliance is the automated check inside it: every page and policy on your school website is crawled, checked against current DfE statutory requirements and re-run every term, so a missing policy or an out-of-date page surfaces long before anyone asks for it.
Included in every SGAF membership, from £229 per school per year.
What gets checked, every term
- Every statutory policy read and checked against the current DfE list
- Governor names and roles cross-checked against your GIAS record
- Content that has drifted: drafts, expired review dates, stale figures
- The compliance score tracked over time, term by term
Every page and policy crawled
Checked against current DfE statutory requirements
Re-run every term, with the score tracked over time
Findings connect to your Quality Standard as evidence
How it works
Three steps. The check and the evidence are the same act.
Set up once. From then on, a fresh position is one click away.
Connect your school once
Enter your website URL in the portal. From then on a fresh check is one click away, whenever the board needs an up-to-date position.
Every page and policy is checked
The check crawls every page and opens every statutory policy, reading the review date and scoring it against the current DfE list.
Confirm the evidence
Findings map to the relevant part of your Quality Standard. Confirm the evidence with one click, no spreadsheets, no duplicate work.
Nine compliance areas
Every statutory area your website is judged on
A fully compliant website carries a real part of your governance evidence. The check surfaces the policy pages and statutory statements that prove the system is current.
DfE Statutory Content
School details, admissions arrangements, performance data, curriculum statement and the Baker Clause.
Statutory Policies
Behaviour, complaints, safeguarding, SEN information report and pupil premium strategy, each checked for currency.
Governance Transparency
Governor names, terms of office, committee structure and the disclosures a trust must publish.
Financial Compliance
Pupil premium statement, PE and sport premium, annual accounts and executive pay disclosure.
SEND & Inclusion
SEN information report, SENCO named, local offer link and accessibility facilities.
Safeguarding Visibility
Safeguarding policy, DSL named, safer recruitment and a clear whistleblowing route.
Accessibility (WCAG 2.2)
Accessibility statement, heading structure, alt text and colour contrast.
GDPR & Privacy
Pupil and parent privacy notices, data protection contact and cookie notice.
Sustainability
Green hosting, a referenced climate action strategy and any eco-school accreditation.
Where it sits in the loop
Where Automated Website Compliance sits in the loop
Every check is where evidence enters the system. Findings become risks, risks become actions, actions become the statement. Every school's position rolls up for the trust.
Audit (this tool)
The termly website check surfaces missing or expired policies for the board.
Risk
A missing or expired policy becomes a candidate risk with an owner.
Action
Risks become visit plans and actions the board can track.
Statement
The year's evidence becomes the board's annual account.
Oversight
Every school's position rolls up into one live view.
For every seat
What Automated Website Compliance gives each seat at the table
The same termly check, whatever your role at the board.
Chair
A website that backs up what the board says
- One score the board can watch move, term by term
- Nothing discovered late, because the check runs on a fixed cycle
- A record the board can point to if the site is ever questioned
Headteacher
One less thing to check by hand every term
- Drafts and stale content caught before a parent finds them
- Governor details kept consistent with your GIAS record
- A short, specific brief for whoever maintains the site
Clerk
Evidence filed as the check runs
- Findings map straight to the framework element they evidence
- Confirmed with one click, not re-typed into a spreadsheet
- The termly position ready before the meeting, not chased beforehand
Governor
See what changed, not the whole site again
- A termly trend, not a one-off snapshot
- The handful of items worth fixing first, prioritised
- A live link to the exact page or policy in question
Common questions
How Automated Website Compliance works
The practical detail for boards bringing their website into the loop.
Does this replace our website provider or web team?
No. Automated Website Compliance is an assurance layer, not a website builder. Your provider keeps the site running. The check tells the board and the school what is missing, expiring or out of date, with a specific brief for whoever maintains the site.
How often should we run it?
Once a term works for most boards, in line with the academic year, so the board can watch the score move and tie each review to a meeting. You can re-run it any time a policy changes.
We are an academy and host policies on the trust site. Does that work?
Yes. The crawl follows the link from your school site to the trust website where central policies live, so those policies are read and checked as if they sat on your own pages.
How is this different from an accessibility or SEO checker?
A standalone accessibility or SEO tool checks the plumbing of a site on its own. Automated Website Compliance is built for school governance: it knows the DfE statutory list, the policies a school must publish and how each finding maps to your Quality Standard. Accessibility is one of the nine areas it covers, not the whole job.
What does it cost?
Automated Website Compliance is included in every SGAF membership, with no separate fee. Membership is £229 per year for a primary and £329 for a secondary, per school, and brings every member tool with it.
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