School Improvement and Inspections

🔒 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.

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🔒 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.

Updated for 2026

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 2026.

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.

🔒 Fully aligned to the 2026 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit

Ofsted inspection can feel daunting when you're an attendance lead, especially if you're new to the role or haven't experienced an inspection under the current framework.

Designed specifically for attendance leads, 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 attendance work you're already doing to ensure all pupils attend school regularly and punctually, as attendance is the foundation for learning and achievement.

You'll get:

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

☑️ Example Ofsted Attendance Lead 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 attendance and behaviour across the framework

This Ofsted attendance lead 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 attendance leadership, 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.

🔒 Fully aligned to the 2026 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit

Ofsted inspection can feel daunting when you're a pupil premium lead, especially if you're new to the role or haven't experienced an inspection under the current framework.

Designed specifically for pupil premium leads and those with responsibility for disadvantaged pupils, 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 vulnerable pupils.

You'll get:

☑️ Pupil Premium Lead 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 Pupil Premium Lead 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 disadvantaged pupils' provision across the framework

This Ofsted pupil premium 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 pupil premium leadership, 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.

🔒 Fully aligned to the 2026 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit

Ofsted inspection can feel daunting when you're a behaviour lead, especially if you're new to the role or haven't experienced an inspection under the current framework.

Designed specifically for behaviour leads, 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 behaviour work you're already doing to ensure all pupils experience a calm, orderly, respectful and supportive environment where they can thrive and learn.

You'll get:

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

☑️ Example Ofsted Behaviour Lead 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 attendance and behaviour across the framework

This Ofsted behaviour lead 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 behaviour leadership, 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.

🔒 Fully aligned to the 2026 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit

Ofsted inspection can feel daunting when you lead pastoral care and personal development, especially if you're new to the role or haven't experienced an inspection under the current framework.

Designed specifically for pastoral leads and personal development coordinators, this focused preparation pack translates the 2026 School Inspection Toolkit into practical guidance about your role during inspection. Whether you oversee PSHE, careers education, enrichment, pastoral support or all of these areas, 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 pupils' wider development and well-being.

You'll get:

☑️ Pastoral and Personal Development Lead Inspection Role Guidance – clear explanation of when you'll be involved during inspection, what happens during focused leadership discussions and learning walks, and what inspectors want to understand from you

☑️ Example Ofsted Pastoral and Personal Development Lead 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 personal development and well-being across the framework

This Ofsted pastoral and personal development 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, 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

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.

🔒 Fully aligned to the 2026 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit

This three-part pack gives headteachers a complete toolkit for preparing governors ahead of an Ofsted inspection. It covers the inspection process itself, the questions inspectors could ask across all nine evaluation areas, and a ready-to-use PowerPoint for running a governor preparation session. 

You'll get:

☑️ Ofsted Inspection Preparation Questions for Governors and Trustees – a comprehensive 38-page rehearsal tool organised around the nine evaluation areas of the 2026 School Inspection Toolkit, with inspector-style questions, guidance on what each question is exploring, tips for answering and a notes column for governors to record their own examples and evidence in advance

☑️ Ofsted Inspections – Guidance for Governors – a clear, accessible PDF overview of how the current inspection framework works, what governors' roles are during inspection and how to prepare; designed to be shared with governors in advance of the inspection

☑️ Ofsted Inspection Governors and Trustees Update Briefing PowerPoint – a structured 34-slide presentation for the headteacher to use in a governor preparation meeting, covering the key changes to the framework, what happens in the governance meeting during an inspection and discussion prompts across the main evaluation areas

Ideal for headteachers, deputy headteachers and chairs of governors preparing their governing board ahead of a Section 5 inspection. All documents (except the PDF) are fully editable so you can adapt them for your school's specific context.

👉 Looking for further support on preparing for inspection? We have a full range of confidence-building inspection preparation materials too.