Your role in reviewing policies
As a governing board your role is to ask challenging questions so that you can satisfy yourself that the policy is robust. In particular you want to know that the policy is:
- Up to date with relevant requirements
- Fit for purpose and tailored to your school
- Aligned with your school's improvement strategies, vision and ethos
Use our questions below to help you find out.
It's not your role to:
- Write or revise policies
- Search for other policies to compare your current policy to
- Seek stakeholder feedback on policies
Remember: the actual policy-making is operational and should be left to senior leaders. Don't insert yourself into the policy-making process.
Use our questions to interrogate the policy
Invite the relevant member of staff who drafted/reviewed the policy so you can ask them the questions below Read the