Preparing for Ofsted Inspection

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.

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through the list and check your school's website for compliance, noting down any actions that need to be taken or any out-of-date information.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.

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. 

🔒 Fully aligned to the 2026 Ofsted Inspection Toolkit and Framework and all 2026-2027 statutory guidance

This bundle is perfect for headteachers, trust leaders, governance professionals and SLT members who wish to be consistent in the way they report information to their governing board. The fourteen editable reporting templates will help your governing board to gain a clearer picture in each of the areas, which include reports for:

• attendance
• behaviour
• curriculum
• data protection
• EYFS
• finance
• headteacher's report to governors
• health and safety
• looked-after children
• pupil premium
• annual safeguarding report
• school well-being and personal development
• SEND and inclusion
• subject (can be used multiple times for different subjects)

Each template contains space for data and commentary, allowing governors to build a picture of the school's current position and the reasons behind this.

Regular reports to the relevant governor committees, the full governing board or your local board members allows all of your governors to make more effective strategic decisions because they'll hold a deeper understanding of the school. It can also support governors to share how they hold school leadership to account to ensure compliance, which is a crucial part of the Ofsted leadership and governance judgement and a key feature of an effective governing board.

👉 For support with a specific link governor role, the relevant report to governor template is also available in our individual link governor support packs. These packs also include full audits that can be used in a collaborative manner between schools leaders and governors, plus a role and responsibilities document to support link governors with their specific roles.

🔒 Fully aligned to the 2025 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 2025 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 well-being, 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 2025 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.

🔒 Fully aligned to the final Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025

Support your school prepare for Ofsted's new School Inspection Toolkit 2025 with this comprehensive Inclusion update pack - everything you need to understand the changes, brief your team, and ensure your school is inspection-ready.

☑️ Staff & Governor Briefing PowerPoint (23 slides) – Ready-to-use presentation covering all new inclusion requirements, from identifying, assessing and meeting needs to support for pupils who face barriers to learning

☑️ Toolkit vs. Handbook Comparison Document – Clear side-by-side analysis of what's changed from the scattered requirements about disadvantaged pupils and pupils with SEND in the old Ofsted framework to the new strengthened requirements in the standalone Inclusion evaluation area, plus the inclusion threads that run across the entire toolkit

☑️ Understanding Ofsted's Toolkit Guide – Easy-to-digest breakdown of the new evaluation criteria, with practical considerations for school leaders who hold responsibility for inclusion

☑️ Leader Action Checklist – Strategic planning tool to help you implement the changes across your school community

☑️ Editable Grade Descriptor Grid – Customisable toolkit reference for your leadership team

Perfect for: Headteachers, SLT members, and anyone responsible for inclusion (such as SENCos, DSLs, designated teachers and pupil premium champions) preparing for Ofsted inspection under the new 2025 School Inspection Toolkit, or wanting to ensure their provision in inclusion meets the latest requirements.

Save hours of research time – we've analysed the new toolkit so you can focus on implementing the changes that matter most for your pupils' outcomes.

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🔒 Fully aligned to the final Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit 2025

Support your school to prepare for Ofsted's 2025 School Inspection Toolkit with this comprehensive Safeguarding update pack: everything you need to understand the changes, brief your team and ensure your safeguarding arrangements are inspection-ready.

☑️ Staff & Governor Briefing PowerPoint (26 slides) - Ready-to-use presentation covering all updated safeguarding requirements, from establishing a safeguarding culture to managing child-on-child violence, safer recruitment and multi-agency working

☑️ Toolkit vs. Framework Comparison Document - Clear side-by-side analysis of what's changed from the old Education Inspection Framework and school inspection handbook to the new 2025 toolkit, highlighting shifts in emphasis, new expectations and updated requirements around safeguarding culture, leadership and statutory compliance

☑️ Understanding Ofsted's Toolkit Guide - Easy-to-digest breakdown of the new safeguarding evaluation criteria, with practical considerations for DSLs and school leaders responsible for child protection

☑️ Leader Action Checklist - Strategic planning tool to help you manage the safeguarding changes to the toolkit and what this means for your school community

☑️ Editable Grade Descriptor Grid - Customisable toolkit reference for your DSL team and senior leadership

Perfect for: DSLs, deputy DSLs, child protection leads, headteachers, SLT members and safeguarding governors preparing for Ofsted inspection under the 2025 School Inspection Toolkit, or wanting to ensure they understand how Ofsted inspections safeguarding in 2025-26.

Save hours of research time – we've analysed the new toolkit so you can focus on implementing the changes that matter most for keeping your pupils safe.

🔎 Want a closer look? Click here to preview the update pack🔗 

🔒 Fully aligned to the 2026 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit

Preparing for an Ofsted inspection means having the right evidence at your fingertips. This Ofsted Folder and Document Checklist helps headteachers, deputy heads and senior leaders organise essential documentation across all evaluation areas of the 2026 School Inspection Toolkit.

Whether you maintain a paper-based file, use cloud storage or prefer your school's management system, this comprehensive checklist ensures nothing important gets overlooked. You'll work through each inspection area systematically – from safeguarding and leadership & governance to inclusion and curriculum & teaching – ticking off documents you have and identifying gaps that need addressing.

You'll get:

☑️ Complete 11-page document checklist covering Administration, Leadership and Governance, Attendance and Behaviour, Inclusion, Safeguarding, Curriculum and Teaching, Achievement, Personal Development and WellBeing, Early Years, Post-16 Provision, and Performance Management

☑️ Practical guidance and tips on what to include for each document type, helping you focus on current, high-quality evidence that demonstrates your school's impact - this includes guidance on which documents Ofsted inspectors will need access to by 8am on Day 1 of inspection

☑️ Aligned with Ofsted 2026 – 2027 – fully updated to reflect the final School Inspection Toolkit requirements

This checklist is particularly valuable when you're building your inspection preparation systems from scratch, conducting internal readiness reviews, or ensuring your evidence folders remain current throughout the year.

Perfect for: Headteachers, deputy heads, senior leadership teams, school business managers and anyone responsible for coordinating Ofsted inspection preparation.

👉 Please note, this template is also available in the Ofsted Phone Call Preparation Pack and as part of the full Ofsted Inspection Preparation Pack too.

🔒 Fully aligned to the 2026 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit

An upcoming Ofsted inspection can feel overwhelming, but starting with the right questions helps you understand where you stand. This Pre-Inspection Action Checklist is designed as a thinking tool to help headteachers and senior leaders consider the inspection preparation process, working through every evaluation area systematically to identify where you're confident and where you need further exploration.

Use this checklist in senior leadership meetings to prompt honest conversations about your school's readiness. Rather than providing all the answers, it gives you a comprehensive starting point across all eight evaluation areas of the 2026 School Inspection Toolkit, plus other inspection considerations, helping you figure out which areas are strong and which require deeper investigation or additional support.

You'll get:

☑️ A 12-page Pre-Inspection Action Checklist, giving you starting point questions covering Pre-Inspection Logistics, Documentation and Records, Curriculum and Teaching, Achievement, Attendance and Behaviour, Personal Development and Wellbeing, Leadership and Governance, plus Early Years and Post-16 (where applicable)

☑️ Exploration prompts that help leadership teams assess what's in place, identify gaps in knowledge or documentation, and recognise areas needing further work

☑️ Planning space with 'Complete?' checkboxes and 'Notes & Actions' columns to record initial thoughts and flag areas requiring deeper exploration

This checklist is particularly valuable when beginning your inspection preparation journey, helping you map out your starting position before deciding where to focus your efforts and what additional support or resources you might need.

Perfect for: Headteachers, deputy heads, senior leadership teams, school business managers and anyone starting the Ofsted inspection preparation process.

👉 Looking for further support on preparing for inspection? This resource is also available as part of the full Ofsted Inspection Preparation Pack too.