School Governance
Assurance Framework
Assurance Framework
Structured governance assurance for UK school governing boards.
Structured governance assurance for UK school governing boards.
Your school website is the first thing Ofsted sees. This audit crawls every page, checks every policy, and cross-references against current DfE statutory requirements. Run termly scans to track progress across the academic year — the term tracker shows your compliance score improving over Autumn, Spring, and Summer.
A school website is not a set-and-forget task. Policies have review dates. Governor details change mid-year. Curriculum pages still reference last year’s priorities. Financial data that should have been updated after the autumn census is still showing last year’s figures. None of this is negligence — it is the absence of a system.
When Ofsted visits, the website is the first thing they check. When parents are choosing a school, the website shapes their perception before they walk through the door. When a freedom of information request arrives, the website is the first line of defence.
The free Checker tells you what is missing today. The Website tells you what is expiring, what has drifted, what poses a security risk under Martyn’s Law, and what DfE deadlines are approaching — then connects every finding to your Board Audit as evidence.
A fully compliant school website automatically populates 43% of your Board Audit framework — 23 of 54 governance elements evidenced without any manual work.
School name, contact details, headteacher, chair, admissions, Ofsted report, performance data, curriculum, ethos, and uniform.
Behaviour, complaints, safeguarding, SEN report, pupil premium, charging, RSE, equality, accessibility plan, PE premium, Baker Clause.
Governor names, categories, terms of office, meeting attendance, register of interests, committee structure, academy disclosures.
Pupil premium strategy, PE & sport premium, annual accounts, executive pay, benchmarking, gender pay gap.
SEN information report, SENCO named, local offer, provision types, disability admission, facilities, complaints.
Safeguarding policy, DSL named, safer recruitment, Prevent duty, British Values, whistleblowing.
PAN, oversubscription criteria, in-year admissions, appeals, reception deferral, careers lead, programme, Baker Clause.
Curriculum intent, subject coverage, phonics results, KS2/KS4 data, Progress 8, destinations, SEND accessibility.
This is the key differentiator. The Website does not just flag problems — it connects every finding to your Board Audit, pre-populating evidence across 26 governance framework elements. One scan does two jobs.
Website findings map directly to framework elements with live URLs. Confirm with one click instead of hours of manual evidence gathering.
When a policy review date is current, the corresponding framework element shows evidence of an active review cycle — without anyone having to log it manually.
Names and roles on your website are cross-checked against GIAS. Discrepancies are flagged before an inspector finds them.
Each term, re-run the scan. See what improved, what regressed, and what new gaps have appeared — a termly governance health check for the website.
Enter your school website URL or URN in the School Portal. Your school is linked once — scans run automatically each term.
Every page is crawled. Every policy is read. Review dates are extracted. Content quality is checked. Security risks are flagged. DfE deadlines are monitored.
Findings map to 26 framework elements in your Board Audit. Confirm evidence with one click. No spreadsheets. No duplicate work.
Start with the Checker to see where you stand. Upgrade to The Website for continuous assurance that feeds your Board Audit.
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Included in £229/year