New for 2025, strengthen your school’s approach to attendance with this updated audit pack. Designed for leaders overseeing attendance strategy and practice, it guides a clear, honest review of what’s working, what’s not, and where to focus next.

From strategic leadership and inclusive practice to working with families and evaluating impact, each section helps you unpick the barriers behind absence and shape a culture of belonging and high expectations. Built around Ofsted’s draft 2025 toolkit and the DfE’s Working Together to Improve Attendance guidance, it gives you confidence that your approach is robust and responsive. All buyers will receive a free update when Ofsted publish their final inspection toolkit in September so that the audit paperwork is fully aligned with the final framework.

☑️ Editable 20-page audit exploring five themes: leadership and culture, inclusive practice, partnership working, promoting belonging, and continuous improvement – all with clear reflection prompts throughout

☑️ Practical extras: whole-school attendance strategy template with guiding prompts, editable attendance letter templates for different scenarios, and a one-page SLT and governor summary to share findings clearly

☑️ Includes an action plan template, document checklist and staff, pupil and parent question bank to build a complete picture of strengths and priorities

Whether you’re an attendance officer, attendance champion, headteacher, deputy, assistant head, school business manager or pastoral leader, this pack helps you lead attendance work confidently and prepare for inspection with clarity and purpose.

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👉 The contents of this pack can also be found in our full Attendance Strategy, Monitoring and Training 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.

AI use and ethics in schools – clear, reflective and leadership-focused.

Designed for heads, SLT, trust leaders and anyone interested in exploring effective use of AI in schools, this editable toolkit supports ethical use of AI in education by helping your school explore the risks, responsibilities and values that should guide staff use of AI tools. Use it to identify opportunities for AI to reduce workload, reflect on AI risks in schools and shape a clear, responsible and purposeful way forward for your setting.

☑️ Created for leaders reflecting on AI use and how it can benefit their school as well as potential risks
☑️ Supports school-wide discussion across seven areas of school life, including teaching and learning, assessment, administration, SEND and inclusion, parent communication, leaderships and ethical use of AI
☑️  Includes structured reflection entries with benefits, risks and discussion questions

Ideal for teams starting to explore AI, or for leaders who want to lead with clarity, not hype.

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🔒 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.

Dealing with complaints - whether from parents, carers or community members - can be one of the most challenging aspects of school leadership. With vexatious complaints against schools and the number of instances of parents complaining on the rise, headteachers and SLT need ways of managing complaints and, crucially, preventing complaints from occurring when possible.

This checklist is designed to do exactly that and allows school leaders to review their processes in order to prevent complaints from parents but also to manage legitimate complaints carefully. It covers the following key areas:

• Complaint prevention
• What to do following the receipt of a school complaint
• Complaint investigation
• Complaint resolution
• Managing persistent, serial and vexatious complaints

Use the checklist to evaluate your current position when it comes to school concerns and complaints, such as how effectively you build and manage relationships with parents/carers and your use of communication to maintain a culture of mutual respect in school. This can help you to identify areas to develop to bolster your efforts in maintaining strong relationships and addressing concerns before they develop into a bigger issue, thus helping to prevent complaints from forming.

When complaints do occur, the checklist can support you to think about your processes in order to listen, investigate and respond to complaints in order to find a resolution for all parties. It also allows you to consider your complaints policy and whether the details in it support you, as a school leader, to deal with complaints, including complaints that are persistent, serial or vexatious. 

🔄 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.

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

This helpful pack provides pre-populated pupil, parent and staff surveys that span all major areas of school life, giving you a broad, triangulated picture of how your school is experienced across safeguarding, behaviour, curriculum, inclusion, personal development, leadership and more. Because the questions are mapped to Ofsted's evaluation framework and designed to complement the questions inspectors ask parents, pupils and staff directly, the data you collect is immediately usable for self-evaluation and inspection readiness.

This pack gives you everything you need to plan, administer, analyse and act on stakeholder feedback across the whole school, 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 whole-school surveys – a pupil survey in two versions (emoji scale for younger or less confident pupils; Likert scale for older or more able pupils), a parent survey and a staff survey – all aligned to the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit and mapped to Ofsted's key evaluation areas

☑️ Nine question and statement banks covering all major evaluation areas: achievement, attendance and behaviour, curriculum and teaching, inclusion, leadership and governance, personal development and well-being, early years, safeguarding, and post-16 provision

☑️ A survey analysis template with tally tables, open question theme tables, a summary and next steps section, and an Overall Summary Triangulation table with RAG ratings

☑️ A parent and carer survey next steps planning tool – a unique action-planning document that maps poor parent feedback to targeted routes forward and suggested audit and improvement actions 

☑️ A pre-survey checklist to guide you through each stage of the process, and four survey letter templates for communicating with parents and staff before and after the survey

☑️ A 23-page PDF guidance document covering the full survey cycle, including how Ofsted use surveys such as Parent View, and a free worked example to help you interpret and act on your results

All documents (excluding the PDFs) are fully editable so you can adapt them for your school's specific context.

🔒 Fully aligned to the 2025 Ofsted School Inspection Toolkit