What maintained secondary schools must publish online

SCHOOL’S NAME HERE

School contact details

Your school’s website must include the following:

☐ your school’s name

☐ your school’s postal address

☐ your school’s telephone number

☐ the name of the member of staff who deals with queries from parents and other members of the public

☐ the name and contact details of your special educational needs (SEN) co-ordinator (SENCO) unless you’re a

special school

Requests for paper copies

☐ If a parent requests a paper copy of the information on your school’s website, you must provide this free of charge.

Values and ethos

☐ Your website should include a statement of your school’s ethos and values.

Ofsted reports You must publish either

☐ a copy of your school’s most recent Ofsted report or

☐ a link to the report on the Ofsted website

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Exam and assessment results Key stage 4 (KS4)

If you’re an academy, you should publish the following information on your website each year:

☐ your school’s progress 8 score

☐ your school’s attainment 8 score

☐ the percentage of pupils who’ve achieved a strong pass (grade 5 or above) in English and maths at the end

of KS4

☐ the percentage of pupils entering for the English Baccalaureate (EBacc). To enter the EBacc, pupils must

take up to 8 GCSEs or equivalents, across the 5 subject ‘pillars’ of English language and English literature, maths, sciences, a language and history or geography

☐ percentage of pupils who’ve achieved the English Baccalaureate. In 2017, this was the percentage of pupils

achieving the EBacc, so pupils who got a grade 5 or above in English and maths, and a grade C or above in the science, humanities and language pillars of the EBacc. In 2018, the EBacc attainment measure will change to an average point score (EBacc APS), showing pupils’ point scores across the 5 pillars of the EBacc

☐ percentage of students staying in education or employment after key stage 4 (destinations)

Key stage 5 (KS5)

☐ If you’re a local-authority-maintained school sixth form, you should publish a link to your 16 to 18

performance tables page.

You can find more information about these performance table measures in the ‘16 to 18 accountability headline measures’ guidance.

Performance tables ☐ You must include a link to the school and college performance tables and your school’s performance tables page.

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Admission arrangements Your admissions policy should be reviewed annually.

Foundation schools and voluntary-aided schools

☐ If the school’s governing body decides your admissions, you must publish your school’s admission arrangements

each year and keep them up for the whole school year. You must explain:

• how you’ll consider applications for each relevant age group at your school

• what parents should do if they want to apply for their child to attend your school

• your arrangements for selecting the pupils who apply (if you are a selective school)

• your ‘over-subscription criteria’ (how you offer places if there are more applicants than places)

Community schools and voluntary-controlled schools

☐ If the local authority decides your admissions, tell parents to contact the local authority to find out about your

admission arrangements.

16 to 19 academies and colleges

☐ If you’re a 16 to 19 academy, FE college or sixth form, we recommend that you publish details of your admission

arrangements.

You should publish this information a year before the beginning of the academic year to help parents and students

make an informed choice, and we recommend that the arrangements don’t change during the year. You should

include details of:

• open days your college or academy is planning

• the process for applying for a place at your college or academy

• whether your college or academy gives priority to applications from pupils enrolled at particular schools

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Curriculum You must publish:

☐ the content of your school curriculum in each academic year for every subject, including Religious Education even

if it is taught as part of another subject or subjects, or is called something else

☐ how parents or other members of the public can find out more about the curriculum your school is following

☐ a list of the courses available to pupils at key stage 4, including GCSEs

☐ how you meet the 16 to 19 study programme requirements (if you have a sixth form or offer education at 16 to 19)

☐ the 16 to 19 qualifications you offer

The new Ofsted Inspection Framework (May 2019) states that inspectors will make graded judgements on the quality

of education. This includes an evaluation of your curriculum which should be “broad and balanced”. In particular:

• Intent – do you have an ambitious curriculum that provides the knowledge and cultural capital learners need

to succeed in life?

• Implementation – how well is the curriculum delivered?

• Impact – do learners develop detailed knowledge and skills across the curriculum and, as a result, achieve

well?

Careers programme information From September 2018, academies, free schools and colleges should publish information about the school’s careers programme. This information should relate to the delivery of careers guidance to year 8 to 13 pupils (12 to 18 year olds) and any requirement set out in your funding agreement to deliver careers guidance. For the current academic year, you should include:

☐ the name, email address and telephone number of the school’s Careers Leader

☐ a summary of the careers programme, including details of how pupils, parents, teachers and employers may

access information about the careers programme

☐ how the school measures and assesses the impact of the careers programme on pupils

☐ the date of the school’s next review of the information published

Read the statutory guidance for schools on careers guidance and access for education and training providers, or guidance for further education colleges and sixth-form colleges on careers guidance, for more information. The statutory guidance for schools also contains further information about a policy statement that academies must publish to comply with Section 42B of the Education Act 1997, setting out the circumstances in which providers of technical education and apprenticeships will be given access to year 8 to 13 pupils.

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Pupil premium You must publish a strategy for the school’s use of the pupil premium.

For the current academic year, you must include:

☐ your school’s pupil premium grant allocation amount

☐ a summary of the main barriers to educational achievement faced by eligible pupils at the school

☐ how you’ll spend the pupil premium to overcome those barriers and the reasons for that approach

☐ how you’ll measure the effect of the pupil premium

☐ the date of the next review of the school’s pupil premium strategy

For the previous academic year, you must include:

☐ how you spent the pupil premium allocation

☐ the effect of the expenditure on eligible and other pupils

Pupil premium funding is allocated for each financial year, but the information you publish online should refer to the

academic year, as this is how parents understand the school system.

•As you won’t know allocations for the end of the academic year (April to July), you should report on the funding up to

the end of the financial year and update it when you have all the figures.

The DfE has published templates to support schools in presenting their pupil premium strategies. Use of the

templates is voluntary.

Year 7 literacy and numeracy catch-up premium If your school receives year 7 literacy and numeracy catch-up premium funding, you must publish details of how you

spend this funding and the effect this has had on the attainment of the pupils who attract it.

You must include:

☐ how much year 7 catch-up premium you received for this financial year

☐ details of how you intend to spend the funding

☐ details of how you spent your year 7 catch-up premium last financial year

☐ how last year’s allocation made a difference to the attainment of the pupils who benefit from the funding

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Behaviour policy ☐ You should publish details of your school’s behaviour policy. We would recommend that you also publish your

anti-bullying strategy. The DfE recommends that this policy is reviewed annually.

The policy must comply with Section 89 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006.

Read advice on developing and publishing your school’s behaviour policy.

School complaints procedure ☐ You must publish details of your school’s complaints procedure, which must comply with Section 29 of the

Education Act 2002. The DfE recommends that this policy is reviewed annually.

☐ You must also publish any arrangements for handling complaints from parents of children with special educational

needs (SEN) about the support the school provides.

Read guidance on developing your school’s complaints procedure.

Charging and remissions policies ☐ You must publish your school’s charging and ‘remissions’ policies (this means when you cancel fees). The DfE

recommends that this policy is reviewed annually.

The policies must include details of:

• the activities or cases where your school will charge pupils’ parents

• the circumstances where your school will make an exception on a payment you would normally expect to

receive under your charging policy

Read about school charging and remission.

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Safeguarding policies and procedures ☐ You are required to publish a child protection policy. The DfE states that this policy should be reviewed

annually.

To find out more read Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) statutory guidance

• It should be available publicly either via the school or college website or by other means.

Equality objectives Public bodies, including local-authority-maintained schools, are covered by the public sector equality duty in the

Equality Act 2010 and the Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) Regulations 2011. This means you must publish:

☐ Details of how your school is complying with the public sector equality duty- you should update this every year

Details of these publishing obligations are set out in Equality Act 2010: advice for schools See Page 35, but in

summary:-

• It will be up to schools themselves to decide in what format they publish equality information. • For most schools, the simplest approach may be to set up an equalities page on their website where all this

information is present or links to it are available. • The regulations are not prescriptive, and it will be entirely up to schools to decide how they publish the

information, so long as it is accessible to those members of the school community and the public who want to see it.

☐ You must publish your school’s equality objectives - you should update this at least once every 4 years

• Schools are free to choose the equality objectives that best suit their individual circumstances and contribute to the welfare of their pupils and the school community. Objectives are not intended to be burdensome or a ‘tick box’ exercise, but they do need to be specific and measurable. They should be used as a tool to help improve the school experience of a range of different pupils.

• A school should set as many objectives as it believes are appropriate to its size and circumstances; the objectives should fit the school’s needs and should be achievable.

• Although it is no longer a requirement for schools to have an equality action plan, those schools which do already have one (or more) of these in place, may find it helpful to continue with this approach and adapt it to take into account the extent of the duty.

• Equality objectives may arise from analysis schools have carried out on their published data or other information, where they have identified an area where there is potential for improvement on equalities, or they may – for example - be set in anticipation of a change in local circumstances.

• Publication of information in future years should include evidence of the steps being taken and progress made towards meeting the equality objectives that the school has already set itself

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Special educational needs (SEN) and disability information

☐ You must publish an SEN information report on your school’s policy for pupils with SEN and update it annually.

You should update any changes occurring during the year as soon as possible. The report must comply with:

• section 69 of the Children and Families Act 2014, including: o the arrangements for the admission of disabled pupils o the steps you have taken to prevent disabled pupils from being treated less favourably than other

pupils o the facilities you provide to help disabled pupils to access the school o information as to the plan prepared by the governing body or proprietor under paragraph 3 of

schedule 10 to the Equality Act 2010 (accessibility plan) for: ▪ increasing the extent to which disabled pupils can participate in the school’s curriculum ▪ improving the physical environment of the school for the purpose of increasing the extent to

which disabled pupils are able to take advantage of education and benefits, facilities and services provided or offered by the school

▪ improving the delivery to disabled pupils of information which is readily accessible to pupils who are not disabled

• regulation 51 and schedule 1 of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014 where appropriate

• section 6 of the Special educational needs and disability code of practice: 0 to 25 years You can find details of what you must include in schedule 1 of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014, and section 6 of the Special educational needs and disability code of practice: 0 to 25 years.

☐ It is recommended that you publish the accessibility plan you have prepared in compliance with paragraph 3 of

schedule 10 to the Equality Act 2010 if it is not contained within your SEN Information Report. The DfE states that this policy should be reviewed every three years.

This plan is for: o increasing the extent to which disabled pupils can participate in the school’s curriculum o improving the physical environment of the school for the purpose of increasing the extent to which disabled

pupils are able to take advantage of education and benefits, facilities and services provided or offered by the school

o improving the delivery to disabled pupils of information which is readily accessible to pupils who are not disabled

You can find details of what you must include in schedule 1 of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014, section 6 of the ‘Special educational needs and disability code of practice: 0 to 25 years’.

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Governors’ information and duties In the interests of transparency, a governing body should publish on its website up-to-date details of its governance

arrangements in a readily accessible form. Readily accessible means that the information should be on a

webpage without the need to download or open a separate document.

This should include:

☐ the structure and remit of the governing body and any committees, and the full names of the chair of each;

For each governor who has served at any point over the past 12 months:

☐ their full names, date of appointment, term of office, date they stepped down (where applicable), who appointed

them (in accordance with the governing body’s instrument of government)

☐ relevant business and pecuniary interests (as recorded in the register of interests) including:

• governance roles in other educational institutions;

• any material interests arising from relationships between governors or relationships between governors and

school staff (including spouses, partners and close relatives);

The DfE recommends that the register of business interests is reviewed annually.

☐ their attendance record at governing body and committee meetings over the last academic year.

Governors Handbook 2019 – see pages 40 and 55

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Best Practice ☐ Date all documentation and show date next review is due

☐ British Values - Non-statutory advice from the Department for Education.

Maintained schools have obligations under section 78 of the Education Act (2002) which requires schools, as

part of a broad and balanced curriculum, to promote the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical

development of pupils at the school and of society.

o Promoting fundamental British values through SMSC

☐ GDPR – In order to comply with GDPR you must have an up to date privacy notice which sets out what personal

data is held for parents/guardians and their children. This should also explain why you hold the data, who it is

shared with and the individuals’ rights in relation to how you process their data.

• Subject access - your pupils and students have rights to see their personal information. They can make a

request to access the personal information you hold about them. They – and their parents – also have the

right to see their educational records.

• Useful from the Information Commissioners Office – please just click the links

o Guide to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

o GDPR – FAQs for the education sector

o Taking photographs in school

o Publication of exam results by schools

o Bring your own device (BYOD)

Whilst you are not required to publish your Data Protection Policy it is worth bearing in mind that the the DfE recommends that document should be reviewed every 2 years.

Additional Information From September 2020, all primary schools will be required to teach Relationships Education. Schools will be required to have a policy, published on their website, setting out how they intend to approach the subject. The Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) requires all public authorities (including schools) to adopt and maintain a publication scheme. In 2009 this was changed to a ‘generic model’. The model commits a public authority to ‘produce and publish the method by which the specific information will be available so that it can be easily identified and accessed by members of the public’ Where a school has a website, the model scheme document, the guide to information and a large part of the information covered by the scheme should be made available on the website. For more information, check out the ICO website.

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☐ how you’ll make sure these improvements are sustainable☐ your school’s pupil premium grant allocation amount