School Website Compliance Check: What schools must publish online

Updated October 2016

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1. School Contact details:
Name/address/telephone number
Name of person who deals with queries from parents and public
2. Admission arrangements:
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 every age group
·  what parents should do if they want to apply for their child to attend your school
·  your arrangements for selecting the pupils who apply
·  your ‘over-subscription criteria’ (how you offer places if there are more applicants than places)
·  how parents can find out about your school’s admission arrangements through your local authority
Community / Voluntary Controlled schools
If the local authority decides your admissions, write that parents should contact the local authority to find out about your admission arrangements
3. Ofsted Reports:
A copy of the school’s most recent Ofsted report
Or a link to the webpage where users can find the school’s most recent Ofsted report
4. Most recent exam and assessment results:
Key Stage 2:
You must publish the % of KS2 pupils who achieved:
the expected standard or above in reading, writing, maths
average progress in reading, writing and maths
an average scaled score in reading and maths
a high level of attainment in reading, writing and maths

Key stage 4 (KS4):

You must publish the following details from your school’s most recent KS4 results:

Progress 8 score
Attainment 8 score
% of pupils who got a good pass in English and maths
% of pupils achieving the English Baccalaureate combination of subjects (this means pupils who got a GCSE grade C or above in English, maths, 2 sciences, a language, and history or geography)
Student destinations (the % of pupils who continue in education or training, or move on to employment at the end of 16-19 study)
16 to 19 (key stage 5) results [Academies, Free Schools colleges]
From March 2017, you must publish:
·  the progress students have made in English and maths
·  the progress students have made compared with students across England
·  the average grade that students in your college get at 16 to 19 study (key stage 5)
·  student ‘retention’ (the percentage of students who get to the end of their study programme)
·  student ‘destinations’ (the percentage of students who continue in education or training, or move on to employment at the end of 16 to 19 study)
5. Performance Tables: must include a link to the
https://www.gov.uk/school-performance-tables

6. Curriculum:

the content of the curriculum the school follows in each academic year for every subject
the names of any phonics or reading schemes the school is using in KS1
a list of the courses available to pupils at KS4, including GCSEs
how parents or other members of the public can find out more about the curriculum the school is following
7. Behaviour policy:

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

8. School complaints procedure
You must publish details of your school’s complaints procedure, which must comply with Section 29 of the Education Act 2002.
Read guidance on developing your school’s complaints procedure.

9.. Pupil premium

You must publish a strategy for the schools use of the Pupil Premium [no longer need a statement]:

For the current academic year, you must include:

how much pupil premium funding you received for this academic year
details of the main barriers to educational achievement that the disadvantaged children in your school face
how you will spend your pupil premium funding to address these barriers and the reasons for the approach you’ve chosen
how you will measure the impact of the pupil premium
the date of the next pupil premium strategy review
For the previous academic year, we recommend you publish:
how you spent your pupil premium funding
the impact that the pupil premium had on pupils
The funding is allocated for each financial year, but the information published online should refer to the academic year, as this is how parents and the general public understand the school year.
As allocations will not be known for the latter part of the academic year (April to July), the school should report on the funding up to the end of the financial year and update it when it has all the figures.

10.. Year 7 literacy and numeracy catch-up premium

If the school receives year 7 literacy and numeracy catch-up premium funding, you must publish details of how the school spends this funding and the effect this has had on the attainment of the pupils who attract it.
It must include the following:
Year 7 literacy and numeracy catch-up premium allocation for the current academic year
details of how the school intends to spend the allocation
details of how the school spent its previous academic year’s allocation
how it made a difference to the attainment of the pupils who attract the funding

11. PE and sport premium for primary schools

If the school receives PE and sport premium funding, it must publish details of how the school spends this funding and the effect it has had on pupils’ PE and sport participation and attainment. Must include the following:
PE and sport premium allocation for the current academic year
Details of how the school intends to spend its allocation
The effect of the premium on pupils’ PE and Sport participation and attainment.
How you will make sure these improvements are sustainable.

12. Special educational needs (SEN) report

If the school is a maintained school, then the governing body must publish a report on the school’s policy for pupils with SEN.
The report must comply with section 69(2) of the Children and Families Act 2014regulation 51 and schedule 1 of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Regulations 2014
The report must include details of:
The school’s admission arrangements for pupils with SEN or disabilities
The steps school has taken to prevent pupils with SEN from being treated less favourably than other pupils
Access facilities for pupils with SEN
The accessibility plan the school’s governing body has written in compliance with paragraph 3 of schedule 10 to the Equality Act 2010

13. Charging and remissions policies

Schools must publish their charging and remissions policies. The policies must include details of:
The activities or cases for which the school will charge pupils’ parents
The circumstances where the school will make an exception on a payment you would normally expect to receive under its charging policy.

14. Values and ethos

The website should include a statement of the school’s ethos and values.

15. Governor information (required by statutory guidance to be published online)

Governors hold an important public office and their identity should be known to their school and wider communities. 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. This should include:
Information about each governor and any associate members (since March 2015)
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); and
their attendance record at governing body and committee meetings over the last academic year.

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