School Compliance Resources

This comprehensive audit will support you to assess your setting's current position against the DfE's Digital and Technology Standards for Schools and Colleges. Split into 11 sections that mirror the digital and technology standards and containing over 50 pages, this editable Word document walks you through what schools should have in place when it comes to ensuring they've got a safe, robust and sustainable digital infrastructure. 

The audit can be used flexibly by working through sections at different points and with different stakeholders. For example, you may wish to work with your ICT service provider or in-house IT staff on the more technical parts of the audit, such as the sections on broadband internet, cloud solutions, networks and servers. This will allow you to find out where you currently meet these standards so you can then focus on improving your IT and digital provision in other areas.

Part of the standards require schools to have a member of SLT who is the digital technology lead - if your setting does not have one yet, you may wish to start with the sections of digital leadership and governance before moving on to other aspects of the audit, such as laptops, desktops and tablets, and digital accessibility. You may also wish to work with your DSL when looking at safeguarding requirements and keeping children safe by using the sections on cyber security, and filtering and monitoring, which is also available from Honeyguide as an individual audit here: Filtering and Monitoring Audit and Action Plan.

School leaders may also find this audit helpful when looking to procure new IT equipment, infrastructure or services to ensure that any upgrades meet and exceed the digital and technology standards. This allows you to ensure you're making robust and carefully researched purchasing decisions.

Ensuring your school has safe and secure IT systems can be challenging, especially when it comes to the technical elements. This audit will support you by breaking down all of the complex digital and technological requirements into manageable chunks so that you focus on finding our your current position and any further improvements you need to make.

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Supporting your health and safety link governor effectively takes structure, clarity and the right tools. This pack gives you all three – with three fully editable resources designed to strengthen health and safety governance in your school, whether your link governor is new to role or needs more support to be highly effective.

You'll get:

• ☑️ Health and Safety Questions for Governors and Trustees – 20 pages of structured questions to support meaningful collaboration between the H&S link governor and key school staff such as the premises manager, site agent, health and safety lead or headteacher, plus a triangulating evidence section and an action plan template to document next steps
• ☑️ Health and Safety Report to Governors Template – a clear, structured template covering health and safety data and commentary, giving the full governing board the insight they need
• ☑️ Health and Safety Link Governor Roles and Responsibilities – an editable outline of the H&S governor's key responsibilities, ideal for onboarding a new governor or bringing clarity to an existing role

All resources are fully editable so you can adapt them to reflect your school's context and needs.

🔄 Updated for 2026

Supporting your finance link governor effectively takes structure, clarity and the right tools. This pack gives you all three – with three fully editable resources designed to strengthen finance governance in your school, whether your link governor is new to role or needs more support to be highly effective.

You'll get:

• ☑️ Finance Questions for Governors and Trustees – 12 pages of structured questions to support meaningful collaboration between the finance link governor and key school staff such as the SBM, headteacher or administrators with responsibility for the school budget, plus a triangulating evidence section and an action plan template to document next steps
• ☑️ Finance Report to Governors Template – a clear, structured template covering finance data and commentary, giving the full governing board the insight they need
• ☑️ Finance Link Governor Roles and Responsibilities – an editable outline of the finance governor's key responsibilities, ideal for onboarding a new governor or bringing clarity to an existing role

All resources are fully editable so you can adapt them to reflect your school's context and needs.

Assess health and safety provision across your school with this comprehensive audit toolkit designed for school leaders and premises managers.

This pack gives you everything you need to evaluate H&S compliance, identify risks, and ensure your school is a safe environment for pupils, staff and visitors.

You'll get:

☑️ Full editable audit tool (28 pages) – comprehensive questions across 16 key areas of health and safety provision, from risk assessment and fire safety through to premises maintenance, security and crisis management

☑️ Health and safety action plan template – structured document to capture findings, prioritise actions and assign responsibilities with clear timescales for implementation

☑️ 7-page health and safety audit guidance document – clear instructions on planning your audit, who to involve, what evidence to gather, and how to use your findings to strengthen H&S provision and meet your legal duties

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👉 This audit pack is part of our Complete School Leadership Audit Set, which includes eleven audits in one purchase, saving you money whilst ensuring you can evaluate your entire school provision across all Ofsted evaluation areas plus plus three essential good practice audits.

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Clear roles make for more effective governors. This pack gives you ten fully editable roles and responsibilities templates for different link governor roles so every member of your governing board understands their purpose, their priorities and how to fulfil their responsibilities with a genuinely strategic focus.

You'll get:

☑️ Ten editable link governor roles and responsibilities templates – covering attendance, behaviour, curriculum, finance, GDPR and data protection, health and safety, pupil premium, safeguarding, SEND and staff, pupil and community welfare

☑️ Clarity for every governor – each template sets out the key duties, relevant policies, staff relationships and strategic focus for that role, so governors know exactly what they should be doing and why

☑️ Ready to use or adapt – use as-is or customise to reflect your school's context; templates can also serve as governor role terms of reference documents if needed

All templates are fully editable so you can adapt them to reflect your school's context and needs.

👉 For support with a specific link governor role, the relevant link governor role and responsibilities template is also available in our individual link governor support packs. These packs also include a full set of link governor questions that can be used in a collaborative manner between schools leaders and governors, plus a reporting to governor template so governors have a better understanding of the school, leading to more effective governance.

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Supporting your staff, pupil and community welfare link governor effectively takes structure, clarity and the right tools. This pack gives you exactly this, with three fully editable resources designed to strengthen wellbeing governance in your school, whether your link governor is new to role or needs more support to be highly effective.

You'll get:

☑️ Staff Workload and Wellbeing Questions for Governors and Trustees – 13 pages of structured questions to support meaningful collaboration between the welfare link governor and key school staff such as the SENDCo, pastoral leader and headteacher, plus a triangulating evidence section and an action plan template to document next steps

☑️ School Wellbeing and Personal Development Report to Governors Template – a clear, structured template covering wellbeing data and commentary, giving the full governing board the insight they need

☑️ Staff, Pupil and Community Welfare Link Governor Roles and Responsibilities – an editable outline of the welfare and wellbeing governor's key responsibilities, ideal for onboarding a new governor or bringing clarity to an existing role

All resources are fully editable so you can adapt them to reflect your school's context and needs.

🔄 Updated for 2026

Supporting your GDPR link governor effectively takes structure, clarity and the right tools. This pack gives you all three – with three fully editable resources designed to strengthen data protection governance in your school, whether your link governor is new to role or needs more support to be highly effective.

You'll get:

☑️ GDPR Questions for Governors and Trustees – 10 pages of structured questions to support meaningful collaboration between the GDPR link governor and key school staff such as the DPO, headteacher or administrators with responsibility for data protection, plus a triangulating evidence section and an action plan template to document next steps

☑️ Data Protection Report to Governors Template – a clear, structured template covering GDPR data and commentary, giving the full governing board the insight they need

☑️ GDPR Link Governor Roles and Responsibilities – an editable outline of the GDPR governor's key responsibilities, ideal for onboarding a new governor or bringing clarity to an existing role

All resources are fully editable so you can adapt them to reflect your school's context and needs.

🔄 Updated for 2026

Supporting your behaviour link governor effectively takes structure, clarity and the right tools. This pack gives you all three – with three fully editable resources designed to strengthen behaviour governance in your school, whether your link governor is new to role or needs more support to be highly effective.

You'll get:

☑️ Behaviour Questions for Governors and Trustees – 13 pages of structured questions to support meaningful collaboration between the behaviour link governor and key school staff such as the headteacher, DHT, behaviour lead and pastoral lead, plus a triangulating evidence section and an action plan template to document next steps

☑️ Behaviour Report to Governors Template – a clear, structured template covering behaviour data (including exclusions, suspensions and bullying) and commentary, giving the full governing board the insight they need

☑️ Behaviour Link Governor Roles and Responsibilities – an editable outline of the behaviour governor's key responsibilities, ideal for onboarding a new governor or bringing clarity to an existing role

All resources are fully editable so you can adapt them to reflect your school's context and needs.

This handy bundle focuses on exploring your financial management skills in order to effectively manage your school budget. Designed for headteachers, business managers or anyone with responsibility for finance in schools, the three resources in this pack can help you determine your current level of understanding about school budget management and, crucially, what knowledge and skills you need to develop to manage the budget effectively. For this reason, it's ideal for new heads, academy headteachers or anyone stepping into school budget management for the first time. 

👉 Looking for more budget support? These templates are also available in the full School Budget Management Pack, which can also help you to plan your budget and identify where cost savings can be made.