Website publishing requirements and your role

Know what needs to be published on your school's or trust's website and understand your role. Use our checklists if you want to dig deeper to check your website is compliant.

Last reviewed on 9 August 2024See updates
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Contents
  1. How to monitor the website 
  2. Give our checklist to the responsible staff member
  3. Check your website requirements here
  4. UK GDPR and equality requirements for your website

How to monitor the website 

Your role is strategic – hold senior leaders to account

You should ask your headteacher and senior leaders questions about the upkeep of the website.

For example, ask:

  • How often is the school website updated?
  • When was it last updated? For example, some requirements need to be updated each year – is this being done? 
  • Who is responsible for updating the website? 
  • Does the website comply with publishing requirements? How do you know? 

Note: the DfE encourages you to publish governing board diversity data, but it's not statutory. See the article