Annual schedule
- Annual Schedule of Governing Board Business 2023-24 (pdf format, 800 KB)
- Model Standing Orders 2023-24 (docx format, 52 KB)
- Governance structures and roles - GOV.UK
Chair and vice chair of governors
Governance handbook and competency framework
Safeguarding children
- Safeguarding overview for governing boards (pdf format, 106 KB)
- Safeguarding: Information and resources
- Keeping children safe in education: guidance - GOV.UK
- Prevent duty training: Learn how to support people vulnerable to radicalisation - GOV.UK
Statutory policies for schools and academy trusts
- Guidance on the policies and documents that governing bodies and proprietors of schools must have - GOV.UK
- Example policy tracker (docx format, 68 KB)
Website
- What maintained schools must publish online: guidance - GOV.UK
- What academies free schools and colleges should publish online: guidance - GOV.UK
- OCC maintained schools web check proforma revised May 2023 (docx format, 66 KB)
Running a school or college
Complaints procedure
Equality Act 2010
- Equality Act 2010: guidance - GOV.UK
- Equality Act 2010: advice for schools - GOV.UK
- Public Sector Equality Duty - GOV.UK
Freedom of information
Health and safety
HR policies and procedures
Ofsted (GOV.UK)
- Education inspection framework
- Early years inspection handbook
- School inspection handbook
- Guidance for schools
Pupil discipline
- Anti-bullying: Information and guidance
- Behaviour and discipline in schools: guidance - GOV.UK
- Exclusion and Reintegration Team
- Suspension and Exclusion documents
Pupil premium
- Pupil premium: research and information
- Pupil premium: funding and accountability for schools: guidance - GOV.UK
- The EEF guide to the Pupil Premium
Reconstitution: Instrument of government
Register of business interests
- Financial interests: Introduction and guidance
- Declaration of Interests form - revised Sept 2022 (docx format, 38 KB)
- Register of Business Interests summary template for publication - Sept 2022 (doc format, 41 KB)