Governor Support and Development

🔒 Fully aligned to the 2026 School Inspection Toolkit

Help your governors walk into the Ofsted governor meeting with the lead inspector ready to answer with confidence.

This 38-page editable document is a structured rehearsal tool for governing boards, organised around all nine evaluation areas of the 2026 School Inspection Toolkit.

You'll get:

☑️ Inspector-style questions across all nine evaluation areas – safeguarding, inclusion, curriculum and teaching, achievement, attendance and behaviour, personal development and wellbeing, leadership and governance, early years and post-16 provision – phrased as inspectors are likely to ask them in the governance meeting

☑️ "What the inspector is exploring" column – grounded in the expected standard descriptors from the 2026 toolkit, so governors understand the purpose behind each question, not just the question itself

☑️ Tips for answering – practical guidance on how to approach each question, including which governor role or committee is most likely to hold the relevant knowledge

The template is a fully editable Word .docx so you can adapt it for your school's specific context.

Ideal for headteachers leading governor preparation sessions, chairs of governors and governance professionals preparing boards for a Section 5 inspection.

👉 This template is also available in the Governors Ofsted Inspection Preparation Bundle, which also contains a ready-made governor update PowerPoint and governor guidance to help your governing body feels prepared for Ofsted inspection.

In a busy school environment with pressing priorities, accessibility can easily slip down the list. But making sure your environment, provision and processes are accessible and inclusive for everyone matters, and it's one of the seven principles of inclusion your inclusion strategy must address when setting out how you plan to spend the inclusive mainstream fund (IMF).

Designed to support school leaders to audit their current approach and evaluate their strengths and next steps, this 19-page editable School Accessibility Audit template will walk you through the following key areas:

• Leadership and governance
• Curriculum and learning
• Communication and parent engagement
• School entrance and the outdoor school site
• Rooms, corridors and lighting
• Stairs and lifts
• Toilets and changing areas
• Fire exits
• Website and information sharing
• Equality adjustments 
  

Use the audit template collaboratively with key members of your team, such as your health and safety governor, premises caretaker or site manager, special educational needs and disabilities coordinator (SENDCo) and office staff to gather a picture of accessibility and inclusion in your school or college.

Once you've completed the audit, the template also includes a handy action plan, allowing you to document your plan for improving your facilities, processes and provision for all. 

This full school budget management pack is perfect for any school leader who holds responsibility for the management of school finances, such as the headteacher, principal, academy head, school business manager (SBM) or another person in a similar role. The pack contains three distinct strands to support you:

• Cost saving toolkits to help you solve common problems when balancing your budget, including how to minimise expenditure and maximise income in different areas
• Financial management skills-based support to help you understand key terminology and concepts linked to budget management and identify where you may need further skill development
• Budget planning support, including ideas for finance governors when it comes to their role in budget planning and a handy budget planning checklist and calendar to help you stay on track throughout the year

This pack is ideal for those who are new to finances and budget management in schools but it can equally be used by experienced school leaders who are seeking further support.

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, Budget Planning Questions for Governors and Budget Planning Checklist and Calendar.

This handy bundle will support you, a member of your team or one of your governors or trustees to check your school's website to ensure compliance with the statutory information that schools must publish online in 2025.

Created from the DfE guidance documents of what schools must or should publish online for both maintained schools and academies, the 10-page editable checklist gives you the exact items that need to published depending on your type of school. This means you can work through the list and check your school's website for compliance, noting down any actions that need to be taken or any out-of-date information. The accompanying guidance gives you helpful hints and advice on how best to conduct the check as well as information on the importance of having an up-to-date website as Ofsted will check this before they visit your setting. 

The Department for Education updates the requirements for school websites on a regular basis. If you purchase this bundle and the guidance is subsequently updated, we'll update the checklist and notify you via email; you can then redownload the list free of charge to ensure you're always compliant. This means you're not only getting great value for money to support your school budget, but you'll build your understanding of what schools have to publish online so that you feel confident about the accuracy of the information you're presenting to the public.

🔄 Updated for 2026

Effective link governors ask strong questions and this pack gives them the tools to do exactly that. Each set of structured questions supports a different link governor role, giving governors a practical starting point for exploring their area in depth, collaborating meaningfully with school leaders and fulfilling their strategic responsibilities with confidence. Whether you're supporting new governors or strengthening the skills of your board, these resources help shift governors' questions from operational to genuinely strategic.

You'll get:

☑️ Attendance and Behaviour – structured questions to support governors in exploring attendance systems, behaviour culture, policies and practice

☑️ Curriculum, Early Reading and EYFS – questions covering curriculum intent, implementation and impact, early reading and phonics, and EYFS provision

☑️ Safeguarding, SEND and Inclusion – questions across safeguarding, SEND, equality and accessibility, and pupil premium and disadvantaged pupils

☑️ Finance, GDPR and Health and Safety – questions to support governors in evaluating financial management, data protection and H&S compliance

☑️ Staff, Pupil and Community Wellbeing – questions to help governors explore staff workload and wellbeing provision across the school

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

👉 To support a specific link governor role, these questions are also available in our individual link governor support packs. These packs include the relevant questions plus a report to governor templates and a role and responsibilities document.

🔄 Updated for 2026 in line with the Ofsted Framework

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

You'll get:

☑️ Curriculum Intent, Implementation and Impact Questions for Governors and Trustees – 14 pages of structured questions to support meaningful collaboration between the curriculum link governor and key school staff such as the curriculum lead, headteacher or SLT, plus a triangulating evidence section and an action plan template to document next steps

☑️ EYFS Questions for Governors and Trustees – focused questions to help the curriculum governor and early years lead build a deeper understanding of the school's current early years foundation stage strengths and areas for development

☑️ Early Reading and Phonics Questions for Governors and Trustees – structured questions to evaluate the school's current position on early reading and phonics, which can be used alongside the EYFS questions for a fuller picture

☑️ Curriculum, Subject and EYFS Reports to Governors Template – three clear, structured templates covering the reporting on the full curriculum, individuals subjects (reusable across multiple subjects) and the EYFS, giving the full governing board the insight they need

☑️ Curriculum Link Governor Roles and Responsibilities – an editable outline of the curriculum 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.

Rising costs and reduced funding are huge challenges that schools face when managing their budgets. This supportive bundle, designed for headteachers, principals and school business managers, gives you four cost saving toolkits that you can utilise to explore how to maximise income coming into your school as well as reduce unnecessary costs. Each toolkit covers a key pain point in school budget management: low pupils numbers, high staffing costs, managing SEND and linked budgetary costs, and planning an effective and efficient school budget. These provide ideas and reflective questions to work through in order to identify cost-saving measures, supporting your thought process when managing and balancing your entire school budget.

For greatest effect, purchase the full pack which contains all four toolkits but each toolkit is available individually too. 👇

👉 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 evaluate your financial management understanding in order to develop your skills and knowledge.

🔄 Updated for 2026 in line with KCSIE and the Ofsted Framework

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

You'll get:

☑️ Attendance Questions for Governors and Trustees – 12 pages of structured questions to support meaningful collaboration between the attendance link governor and key school staff, plus a triangulating evidence section and an action plan template to document next steps

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

☑️ Attendance Link Governor Roles and Responsibilities – an editable outline of the attendance 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 to align with Ofsted's 2025 School Inspection Toolkit

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

Key features:

• Complete school context analysis - track pupil numbers across behaviour support plans, suspensions, alternative provision and safeguarding links
• Nine core evaluation areas - from leadership and policy compliance to staff training and pupil outcomes
• 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 challenge

This structured approach helps you identify gaps before they become issues, ensuring your behaviour systems are robust and compliant. Whether you're preparing for inspection, addressing governing body questions, or simply wanting to strengthen your school's behaviour culture, this template provides the systematic review process that's often missed in busy school schedules.

Ideal for headteachers who need to demonstrate impact, behaviour leads seeking to improve and embed their practice, and SLT members preparing evidence for external scrutiny.