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- How to review your school's security lockdown procedure Find out what to look for in an emergency lockdown procedure to keep everyone safe in the event of an incident. Ask the right questions to review it effectively.
- Use of school buildings as polling stations During an election, your school may be asked to serve as a polling station. Your school staff will handle these arrangements, but you may want to learn about what the rules are and when your school should close.
- How to evaluate your school's absence and attendance figures Updated - Read our tips on monitoring and challenging your school's attendance figures by questioning your senior leaders, benchmarking against national data, and understanding how Ofsted will use your data.
- Clerk's induction: checklist and guidance Know how to provide an effective induction for your new clerk so they can hit the ground running. A thoughtful induction process will also serve as evidence of your commitment to training. Download our checklist to make sure you've got everything covered.
- How to review your whistle-blowing policy: checklist, model and examples Academies are required to have a whistle-blowing policy. Understand the requirements and use our checklist and model policy to review the procedure for your school or trust.
- Instrument of government: model and checklist Save time by downloading our model instrument of government for maintained schools. Use our checklist to feel confident when reviewing your own.
- How to review your complaints procedures: checklist, model and examples Use our checklist to review the procedure for your school or trust, and make sure it complies with the law and reflects best practice. Be clear on what questions you can ask, and take a look at our model procedure to see what good looks like.
- How to prepare for your next governing board meeting Prepare fully for your governing board or local governing body meetings so you can hold your school leaders to account effectively. Use our pre-meeting checklist to stay on top of the agenda, get to grips with the critical information in the headteacher's report, and plan questions to ask.
- Monitoring safeguarding provision: checklist Your governing board must make sure your school has effective safeguarding policies and procedures in place. Use our checklist to help you monitor your school's safeguarding practice in line with the latest version of statutory Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance.
- A clerk's guide to producing minutes Getting the minutes right is essential to your role as a clerk. Read up on our top tips for taking and writing up notes, then use our handy template and checklist to save your valuable time.
- Academy conversion: step-by-step process Be clear on each step of the academy conversion process so you know what you need to do from start to finish. Use our handy checklist to keep track of the tasks to complete, to make sure everything's covered.
- How to review your staff disciplinary procedures Updated - Understand how to review your school/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.
- School website: publishing information about the governing board Updated - Find out what governing board information you're required to publish on your school website, and download our checklists for maintained schools and academies to make sure you haven't missed anything out.
- School resource management self-assessment: summary and questions to ask Academy trusts must complete the self-assessment checklist annually. Find out what questions you can ask your trust leaders to make sure your trust meets good financial standards.
- How to induct a new governor or trustee effectively High-quality induction ensures that new governors and trustees can hit the ground running. Understand what you need to do to prepare them for their role, and use our checklist to make sure you've done everything you need to.
- How to review your first aid policy Find everything you need to review and approve your school or trust first aid policy. Download our model policy and checklist to see what good looks like and see examples of policies from primary, secondary and special schools.
- Key Stage 2 SATs: governors' role Updated - Key Stage (KS) 2 SATs will take place in May 2024. Here's what you need to know and examples of questions you might ask your headteacher. If you're asked to be an independent observer, use our checklist to know what to look out for.
- Website publishing requirements and your role Know what needs to be published on your school website or trust website and understand your role. Use our checklists if you want to dig deeper to check your website is compliant.
- How to review your policy on supporting pupils with medical conditions All state-funded schools are required to have this policy. Use our model document to benchmark your own policy or download our checklist to help you review your existing policy. Also see examples of policies from other schools and trusts.
- How to review your child protection policy Find everything you need to review and approve your school's child protection policy. Be clear on what key questions you can ask your school leaders, and use our model policy and checklist to make sure your school's compliant.