Governing Body Work

Annual Schedule

• Annual Schedule of Governing Body Business 2019-20 (pdf format, 347Kb)
• Oxfordshire Governor Services - Advice for School Governing Boards (Covid-19) (pdf format, 61Kb)

Governance handbook and competency framework

• Governance handbook: guidance

Statutory policies for schools and academy trusts

• Guidance on the policies and documents that governing bodies and proprietors of schools must have

Website

• What maintained schools must publish online: guidance
• What academies free schools and colleges should publish online: guidance 

Running a school or college 

• Running a school or college: list of information about running a school or college including e.g. Admissions, Governance, Statutory policies and guidance

Complaints procedure

• School complaints procedures: guidance for schools

Equality Act 2010

• Equality Act 2010: guidance

Freedom of information

• Information Commissioner's Office Website
• Freedom of Information: OCC guidance

Health and safety

• Health, Safety and Wellbeing: practical advice and guidance
• Health and safety in schools: Information and guidance

HR policies and procedures

• Policies, procedures and guidance

Ofsted

• Education Inspection Framework
• Early Years Inspection handbook
• School Inspection Handbook
• Guidance for Schools

Pupil discipline

• Anti-Bullying: Information and guidance
• Exclusion and reintergration: guidance
• Behaviour and discipline in schools: guidance

Pupil premium

• Pupil premium: research and information  
• Pupil premium: funding and accountability for schools: guidance

Register of business interests

• Financial Interests: Introduction and guidance

Safeguarding children

• Safeguarding: Information and resources
• Keeping children safe in education: guidance

Relationships education, relationships and sex education (RSE) and health education

• Relationships education, relationships and sex education (RSE) and health education guidance 
• Risk and resilience toolkit
• Sex and relationship education: guidance (applies until September 2020)
• Relationships education, RSE and PSHE: policy paper