Governor Support and Development

🔒 Fully aligned to the Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025

This SEND Self-Evaluation Form (SEF) template helps SENDCos and inclusion leaders evaluate their setting's SEND provision, strengths and development areas and is aligned with all  areas of the Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit.

You'll get:

☑️ SEND SEF template with structured criteria across all key areas of SEND leadership: leadership and governance, safeguarding, curriculum and teaching, attendance and behaviour, personal development and well-being, working with parents, assessment and identification, achievement, monitoring and evaluation, efficient use of resources, quality of SEND provision, and pupil perspectives

☑️ Reflective questions in each section to support critical, evidence-based evaluation of your SEND provision, plus guidance on where to find multiple sources of evidence to support your judgements

☑️ Ofsted Grade Descriptor Grids fully aligned to the 2025 toolkit, with particular focus on the Inclusion strand to inform your self-evaluation decisions

The template is fully editable so you can adapt it for your school's specific context and SEND cohort.

Who should use this template?

This is essential for SENCos, inclusion leaders and SEND coordinators responsible for evaluating provision for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities. It's particularly valuable for new SENDCos building their self-evaluation practice, or experienced leaders who need structured headspace to evaluate SEND strategically rather than getting lost in day-to-day operational demands. Headteachers and SLT with SEND oversight will also find it useful for monitoring inclusion provision.

🔒 Fully in line with KCSIE 2025 and the 2025 Education Inspection Framework

This Single Central Record (SCR) Compliance Bundle gives DSLs, headteachers and school leaders a practical toolkit for checking safer recruitment and record-keeping processes against Part 3 of Keeping Children Safe in Education. Whether you're preparing for inspection or conducting routine compliance checks, these templates help you identify gaps quickly and document your findings clearly.

You'll get:

☑️ Single Central Record (SCR) Overview Checklist – conduct whole-record checks to verify you're recording information about the correct people (staff members, trainee teachers, agency and third-party workers, volunteers and contractors), confirm the right checks have been completed for each role (enhanced DBS checks, children's barred list checks, Section 128 checks, right to work in the UK checks and other statutory and recommended checks), and identify any missing dates or information

☑️ Single Central Record (SCR) Spot Check Template – triangulate your SCR evidence by comparing records against personnel files, identify discrepancies between your SCR and actual documentation, and document your findings clearly for governors and inspectors

All templates are fully editable Word documents so you can adapt them for your school's specific context and reuse them throughout the year to maintain compliance.

👉 Looking for further support on preparing for inspection? These resources are also available as part of the full Ofsted Inspection Preparation Pack too.

🔒 Fully aligned to the Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025

This subject leader self-evaluation template helps curriculum and subject leaders evaluate their subject's strengths and development areas and are fully aligned with the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit.

You'll get:

☑️ Structured self-evaluation criteria across all Ofsted toolkit strands (Safeguarding, Inclusion, Curriculum and Teaching, Achievement, Attendance and Behaviour, Personal Development and Well-being, plus optional Early Years and Post-16 sections), with Curriculum and Teaching broken down in detail for subject leadership including Intent, Implementation and Impact

☑️ Reflective questions and guidance on evidence sources in each section to support critical, evidence-based evaluation of your subject provision

☑️ Ofsted Grade Descriptor Grids fully aligned to the 2025 toolkit to inform your self-evaluation decisions

The template is fully editable so you can adapt it for your subject and school context.

Who should use this template?

This is essential for subject leaders, curriculum coordinators, phase leaders and middle leaders responsible for evaluating provision in their subject area. It's particularly valuable for new subject leads building their evaluation skills, or experienced leaders refining their SEF process. Headteachers and SLT can also use it to support consistency across subject leadership teams.

🔒 Fully aligned to the Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025

This EYFS Self-Evaluation Bundle helps early years leaders evaluate their provision's strengths and development areas.

You'll get:

☑️ EYFS Self-Evaluation Form (SEF) template with structured criteria viewed through an early years lens across all Ofsted toolkit strands (Safeguarding, Inclusion, Curriculum and Teaching, Achievement, Attendance and Behaviour, Personal Development and Well-being, Leadership and Governance), with the Early Years strand explored in detail

☑️ Reflective questions in each section to support critical, evidence-based evaluation of your early years provision, plus guidance on where to find multiple sources of evidence

☑️ Early Years RAG Rating Tool so you can quickly assess your provision against core grade descriptors and identify priority areas for improvement

☑️ EYFS Ofsted Grade Descriptor Grids fully aligned to the 2025 toolkit to inform your self-evaluation decisions

All templates are fully editable so you can adapt them for your setting's specific context.

Who should use this bundle?

This is essential for EYFS leaders, early years coordinators and reception leads responsible for evaluating provision in their setting. It's particularly valuable for new early years leads building their self-evaluation skills, or experienced leaders refining their SEF process. Headteachers and SLT with EYFS responsibility will also find it useful for monitoring and supporting early years provision.

The editable EYFS SEF template and accompanying documents are ideal for new early years leads or those wishing to refine their EYFS SEF writing process. Often, these sorts of documents are kept - either digitally or paper-based - in an EYFS leader file. For further support with creating, building and organising an effective early years leader folder, this template along with many more are also included in our full EYFS Leader Folder Pack.

Is your setting looking to recruit a new headteacher, principal, head of school or executive head? If you’re a chair of governors, a trustee or MAT leader looking for the right interview questions to ask a prospective headteacher, as well as interview tasks that will test their strengths and skills, this Headteacher Interview Pack is here to support you through the process.

🔒 Fully aligned to the final Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025

New for 2025, this leadership and governance audit pack helps headteachers, senior leaders and governors evaluate strategic leadership and oversight across six key areas. Fully aligned with the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit, it supports self-evaluation, effective governance and whole-school improvement.

☑️ Editable leadership and governance audit document covering six sections including strategic leadership, governance, staff well-being and workload, professional learning and expertise, parental, professional and community engagement, and evaluating impact and continuous improvement

☑️ Action plan template, document checklist, question bank and one-page summary template to support effective auditing and evaluation

☑️ Comprehensive guidance document with detailed information on leadership and governance aligned to the 2025 Ofsted framework and how to audit your provision effectively

☑️ Unique alignment map showing how leadership oversight connects to deeper evaluation in other school audits, helping leaders and governors plan cohesive self-review

Ideal for headteachers, executive heads, principals, senior leadership teams, academy trustees, local governors and trust leaders reviewing school leadership and governance, evaluating impact and planning for improvement.

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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 three essential good practice audits.

This budget planning checklist and calendar set is designed to help you with staying on top of managing your budget across the school year. The editable budget planning checklist has suggested tasks to attend to when planning your next budget, including for school improvement planning, curriculum budgeting and expenditure, staffing and payroll, pupil premium and SEND. There are also suggestions for when to follow up and monitor each element across the school year. The accompanying calendar provides a month-by-month overview, giving you a quick and easy breakdown of what to explore each month when it comes to monitoring your budget - you could print it out and pin it to your noticeboard as a handy reminder (plus there's a print-friendly version included too). And best of all? This pack is free!

👉Looking for more budget support? This template is also available in the full School Budget Management Pack, which can also help you to upskill yourself on financial management, identify where cost savings can be made and work with your finance governors. This pack offers you best value for money if you want to get a better grip on your budget, but each strand is also available as a separate purchase should you need to explore a single area of budget management: School Budget Planning and Cost Saving Toolkit, School Budget Management Skills Bundle and Budget Planning Questions for Governors.

🔒Updated to align with Ofsted's 2025 School Inspection Toolkit

This safeguarding self-evaluation form template provides a comprehensive framework for DSLs, headteachers and SLT to assess and strengthen safeguarding systems across their school. The editable Word document guides you through a structured annual review of your safeguarding policy implementation, culture and outcomes.

Key features:

• Complete school context analysis - track pupil numbers across child protection plans, looked-after children, early help involvement and vulnerable groups
• Nine core evaluation areas - from strategic leadership and operational management to staff training and pupil perspective
• Evidence-based assessment - suggested sources and documentation for each area to support your RAG ratings
• Governor accountability - ready-to-share format for governing body oversight and statutory compliance demonstration
  

This structured approach helps you identify safeguarding gaps before they become critical issues, ensuring your systems are robust and inspection-ready. Whether you're completing your annual safeguarding audit, addressing governing body requirements, or preparing for Ofsted inspection, this template provides the systematic review process that demonstrates effective safeguarding leadership.

Ideal for DSLs conducting annual safeguarding reviews, headteachers who need to evidence safeguarding effectiveness to governors, and SLT members preparing comprehensive safeguarding evidence for external scrutiny.

🔄 Updated for 2026

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

You'll get:

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

☑️ Safeguarding Spot Check Questions for Governors – a focused set of questions that can be asked of teaching staff, support staff and further roles for safeguarding link governors to use during school visits, covering the key areas of safeguarding culture, policy and day-to-day practice

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

☑️ Safeguarding Link Governor Roles and Responsibilities – an editable outline of the safeguarding 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.