Inclusion Leadership

🔒 Fully aligned to the 2026 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit

Ofsted inspection can feel daunting when you're a designated teacher for looked-after children, especially if you're new to the role or haven't experienced an inspection under the current framework.

Designed specifically for designated teachers, this focused preparation pack translates the 2026 School Inspection Toolkit into practical guidance about your role during inspection. You'll understand when and how you'll engage with inspectors, what questions they're likely to explore and how to demonstrate the excellent work you're already doing to support looked-after and previously looked-after children.

You'll get:

☑️ Designated Teacher Inspection Role Guidance – clear explanation of when you'll be involved during inspection, what happens during focused leadership discussions and case sampling, and what inspectors want to understand from you

☑️ Example Ofsted Designated Teacher Questions – realistic questions you might be asked during inspection conversations, helping you practise articulating your approach and identify any areas to strengthen

☑️ Further supporting documents – including a leader action checklist to build your inspection knowledge, an inspection readiness tool to evaluate your current practice against toolkit statements, and editable grade descriptor grids highlighting looked-after children's provision across the framework

This Ofsted designated teacher resources pack helps to build your confidence to articulate your work clearly and supports you to prepare effectively without creating unnecessary workload. All templates are fully editable so you can adapt them for your school's specific context and use them as part of your ongoing leadership for looked-after children, not just for inspection preparation.

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

🔄 Updated for 2026

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.

This Subject Intervention and Provision Map Bundle is ideal for any subject leader who's looking to explore what additional support is given to pupils in their subject.

Aimed at primary subject leaders, this mini bundle contains two useful editable Word templates. The Subject Intervention and Provision Audit allows you to look in-depth at your subject and the provision, adaptations, differentiation and intervention on offer. This template is split into three handy sections that cover the following:

• Quality First Teaching
• Targeted Pupil Support
• Group Intervention

This allows you to explore the current offer for pupils who need additional support to attain well in your subject as well as changes that could be made to further improve outcomes for pupils. You can then use the Subject Provision Map to give an overview of the different types of provision and support available in different year groups as well as summarising the general strategies used by all staff to support learning. 

Understanding how pupils who need extra help, such as pupils with SEND or disadvantaged pupils, are supported in your subject is a key component of subject leadership, and is something you may wish to evidence in a subject leader file. For further support with creating, building and organising an effective subject leader folder, this template along with many more are also included in our Subject Leader Folder Pack.

🔒 New for 2026 and fully aligned to the Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025

Understanding how well your school includes and supports every pupil – those with SEND, those who are disadvantaged, those known to children's social care and those who face less visible barriers to learning – requires more than your own professional judgement. It requires the voices of pupils, parents and staff, gathered systematically and analysed in a way that leads to meaningful action.

This pack gives you everything you need to plan, administer, analyse and act on stakeholder feedback about inclusion, and because the core survey templates come pre-populated with carefully considered questions, you can move from planning to distribution with minimal preparation time.

You'll get:

☑️ Three ready-to-use surveys covering pupils (two versions for different age and ability groups), parents and carers, and staff – each ready-made with closed and open questions aligned to the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit

☑️ A question and statement bank with additional prompts across all three stakeholder groups, including targeted questions for pupils and families of children with SEND, disadvantaged pupils, pupils known to children's social care and those facing other barriers to learning

☑️ A survey analysis template with structured tables for tallying responses, identifying themes and triangulating findings across all three groups

☑️ A pre-survey checklist to help you think through the logistics before you launch and survey letter templates – ready-made notification and feedback letters for parents and staff

☑️ Comprehensive guidance on planning, administering, analysing and sharing survey findings, including how to handle difficult results and a free worked example that helps you learn how to effectively analyse and triangulate survey data

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

For pupil premium leads and headteachers who need a structured, comprehensive way to report on pupil premium strategy, spending and impact to their governing board.

You'll get:

☑️ Pupil Premium Report to Governors – a fully 8-page editable Word document covering:

• named lead and governance arrangements
• pupil premium cohort and grant allocation by eligibility category (including FSM, LAC, previously looked-after children, service pupil premium and EYPP)
• barriers to learning for disadvantaged pupils
• the tiered pupil premium strategy and spending breakdown across high-quality teaching, targeted academic support and wider strategies
• progress and attainment data by term with gap analysis narrative
• intervention impact
• attendance and exclusions data for disadvantaged pupils
• pupil voice and parental/carer engagement
• disadvantaged pupil subgroup analysis
• review of the previous year's strategy and outcomes
• staff training
• a structured evaluation and improvement section including governor questions and challenges.

All sections are fully editable so you can adapt the template to your school's context and reporting cycle.

Ideal for pupil premium leads, headteachers and deputy headteachers preparing termly or annual pupil premium reports to governors.

👉 Looking for more governor report templates? This template and others are part of our Reports to Governors Template Bundle

Designed for headteachers, SENDCos and senior leaders, this ready-made template gives you a clear, structured starting point for reporting on SEND and inclusion to your governing board without having to build a report from scratch.

You'll get:

☑️ SEND and Inclusion Report to Governors Template – a comprehensive, 15-page editable Word document covering:

• SENDCo and SEND governance arrangements
• the SEND school profile and data by need type including communication and interaction, cognition and learning, SEMH and sensory and physical needs
• referrals and assessments including EHCP timescales and annual reviews
• the graduated approach and identification of need
• progress and attainment by key stage compared to non-SEND peers
• interventions and support across all four areas of need
• TA and LSA deployment
• attendance and exclusions for pupils with SEND
• SEND funding allocation and impact including EHCP top-up funding and pupil premium
• pupil voice and parent and carer engagement
• transitions across all stages including post-16 and into adulthood
• local area partnership and local offer
• work with external agencies including educational psychology, SALT, OT and CAMHS
• inclusion across broader groups,
• specialist staff training and SENDCo capacity
• policy review dates
• a strengths and areas for development evaluation including governor questions and challenges

All sections are fully editable so you can adapt the template to your school's context and reporting cycle.

Ideal for headteachers, SENDCos, inclusion leads and senior leaders preparing termly or annual SEND and inclusion reports to governors.

👉 Looking for more governor report templates? This template and others are part of our Reports to Governors Template Bundle

🔒 Aligned to Ofsted's 2026 School Inspection Toolkit and the incoming SEND reform layered support model.

Whether you're taking a closer look at how well your school identifies, supports and meets the needs of pupils with SEND, or getting ahead of the SEND reforms coming into effect from 2026/27, this pack gives you a structured, evidence-led process to lead your own internal review on your own timeline and at a depth that a two-day inspection simply cannot match.

You'll get:

☑️ Process and planning templates – a step-by-step overview, evidence exploration framework and ideas for a six-week review schedule 

☑️ Pupil and staff evidence tools – structured questions for pupils with SEND and a SEND subject knowledge question bank for staff 

☑️ Organisation and readiness tools – a SEND document and files checklist and a SEND reform readiness template to map current provision against the new layered support model

☑️ Inspection preparation resources – example Ofsted SENDCo questions and a SEND summary overview template

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

For designated teachers and headteachers who need a structured, comprehensive way to report on looked-after children (LAC) and previously looked-after children to their governing board.

You'll get:

☑️ Looked-After Children and Previously Looked-After Children Report to Governors – a fully editable Word document covering:

• designated teacher details and governance arrangements
• numbers of LAC and previously LAC on roll by key stage
• local authority corporate parents
• Personal Education Plans (PEPs) including review and target data
• Pupil Premium Plus (PP+) allocation, strategy and impact
• progress and attainment by key stage with narrative commentary
• SEND, attendance, suspensions and exclusions data for looked-after children
•  mental health and well-being including SDQ completion and trauma-informed practice, intervention and support
• safeguarding and DSL collaboration
• multi-agency and Virtual School Head collaboration
• staff training
• policies and procedures
• a structured evaluation and improvement section including governor questions and challenges.

All sections are fully editable so you can adapt the template to your school's context and reporting cycle.

Ideal for designated teachers, headteachers and deputy headteachers preparing termly or annual looked-after children reports to governors.

👉 Looking for more governor report templates? This template and others are part of our Reports to Governors Template Bundle