Staff policies

Understand the changes to flexible working rules from April, including the right of employees to request flexible arrangements from day 1 of employment. Read advice on how your school/trust leaders should be responding to the changes.

A dignity at work policy can help your school deal with incidents of workplace harassment, bullying and victimisation in a confident, consistent way. Get advice on how to review your policy and what to look out for.

Use our guidance and recommended questions to help you confidently approve your school's or trust's early career teacher (ECT) induction policy.

Use our key questions to review your school or trust's family and parental leave policy. See what good looks like in our model policy, updated in line with the Employment Rights Act 2025.

Know what to look for when reviewing your flexible working policy and use our questions to support and challenge effectively.

Find everything you need to review and approve your school’s approach to menopause support. Understand what to look for in your school's menopause policy and action plan, and key questions to ask your leaders.

Be confident when reviewing your procedures for dealing with allegations of abuse against staff. Know what they should include and get suggestions of questions to ask to make sure they're compliant and robust.

Find out how to review your school's safer recruitment policy. Save time with our example questions you can ask, and use our model to see what good looks like.

A social media policy can help staff, pupils, parents and carers understand your school's expectations for interacting appropriately online. Download our model policy and take a look at some examples to get an idea of what good looks like.

Get information on how to review your school's staff capability policy, including questions you can ask. Save time with our policy checklist, and use our model policy to see what good looks like.

Be confident when reviewing your staff code of conduct. Know what it should include and what questions to ask to make sure your school or trust's code is compliant and robust.

Understand how to review your school or trust's staff disciplinary procedures, including questions you can ask. Save time with our policy checklist, and use our model policy to see what good looks like.

Understand how to review your school's staff grievance procedures, including questions you can ask. Save time with our model policy to see what good looks like.

Know what to look out for, and what questions you can ask to review your staff sickness and absence policy with confidence.

Find everything you need to review and approve your school's wellbeing policy, including what to look for in the policy and key questions to ask your school leaders.

Be confident when approving your teacher appraisal policy. Know what it should include and what questions to ask to make sure it's compliant and robust.

Understand the requirements and know what questions to ask when reviewing your teachers' pay policy. Read our model policy to see what good looks like – choose the version that reflects whether your school has retained or stopped performance-related pay.