Designed for headteachers, data protection officers and school business managers, this ready-made template gives you a clear, structured starting point for reporting on data protection compliance to your governing board without having to build a report from scratch.

You'll get:

☑️ Data Protection Report to Governors Template – a comprehensive, editable Word document covering:

• UK GDPR compliance status
• policy and privacy notice review dates
• staff training completion
• individual rights requests including subject access requests
• third-party data processor agreements
• Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs)
• data breaches and ICO reporting
• a strengths and areas for development evaluation, including sections for upcoming challenges and 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, data protection officers, school business managers and senior leaders preparing termly or annual data protection reports to governors.

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Designed for headteachers, deputy heads and attendance leads, this ready-made template gives you a clear, structured starting point for reporting attendance data and strategy to your governing board, without having to build a report from scratch.

You'll get:

☑️ Attendance Report to Governors Template – a comprehensive, 9-page editable Word document covering:

• whole-school attendance data
• attendance by pupil group and year group
• year-on-year comparisons
• session-by-session analysis
• CME and alternative provision tracking
• attendance improvement strategies
• multi-agency partnership work
• known barriers to attendance
• a strengths and areas for development evaluation, including a dedicated section for 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, deputy heads, attendance leads and attendance champions preparing termly or annual reports to governors.

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🔄 Updated for 2026

A strong governing board starts with an honest picture of where it stands. This pack gives chairs of governors, clerks and headteachers the tools to evaluate board skills and knowledge systematically, helping the governing body to identify gaps, plan for governor recruitment and supporting governor development with confidence.

You'll get:

☑️ Governing Body Skills Matrix and Action Plan – maps the collective skills and experience your governors bring to the board across ten categories, identifies gaps and turns findings into a prioritised recruitment and training plan

☑️ Governing Body Knowledge Audit – evaluates the board's knowledge across ten governance areas, with example evidence and suggested actions built in to help you assess where you are and plan next steps

☑️ Governing Body Profile – a quick-reference record of every governor's appointment details, roles, training dates and declared interests, designed to be updated annually and whenever the board composition changes

☑️ Governing Body Self-Evaluation Form – a RAG-rated self-evaluation framework covering eight key areas of governance effectiveness, with evidence prompts and a summary table to agree priorities and next steps as a board

Ideal for chairs of governors, vice-chairs, clerks to governors and headteachers who are carrying out an annual governance review, organising governor CPD or  improving governor effectiveness through role and succession planning.

For senior mental health leads, headteachers and pastoral leaders who need a structured, comprehensive way to report on school well-being and personal development to their governing board.

You'll get:

☑️ School Well-being and Personal Development Report to Governors – a fully editable 11-page Word document covering:

• strategic leadership of well-being including the Senior Mental Health Lead, whole-school strategy and Mental Health Support Team arrangements
• strategic well-being objectives
• pupil well-being data and monitoring
• pupil mental health and emotional well-being provision across universal, targeted and specialist levels, plus safeguarding and crisis protocols
• personal development including PSHE, RSE, British values, SMSC, physical health, online safety, careers education and pupil leadership
• pupil feedback and voice
• well-being of vulnerable and disadvantaged groups
• anti-bullying data
• staff well-being data and monitoring
• staff initiatives and support
• workload and working conditions
• staff feedback
• parent, carer and community well-being
• staff training
• well-being challenges and emerging concerns
• 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 senior mental health leads, headteachers and deputy headteachers preparing termly or annual well-being and personal development reports to governors.

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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.

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Designed for headteachers, deputy heads and EYFS leads, this ready-made template gives you a clear, structured starting point for reporting on Early Years provision to your governing board without having to build a report from scratch.

You'll get:

☑️ EYFS Report to Governors Template – a comprehensive, 11-page editable Word document covering:

• EYFS improvement priorities, achievements and staffing updates
• curriculum intent including phonics, communication and language, and mathematics
• quality of teaching and monitoring
• assessment data including baseline, in-year and end-of-year GLD outcomes
• attendance, behaviour and PSED
• SEND provision and the graduated approach
• disadvantaged children and the Early Years Pupil Premium (EYPP)
• transitions
• statutory welfare requirements
• parent engagement
• staff CPD
• link governor visits
• 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, deputy heads and EYFS leads preparing termly or annual EYFS reports to governors.

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Designed for headteachers, deputy heads and behaviour leads, this ready-made template gives you a clear, structured starting point for reporting behaviour data and strategy to your governing board without having to build a report from scratch.

You'll get:

☑️ Behaviour Report to Governors Template – a comprehensive, 10-page editable Word document covering:

• exclusions, suspensions and behaviour sanctions
• bullying and discriminatory incidents
• behaviour by pupil group
• behaviour incidents by category and year group
• attitudes to learning
• behaviour policy review dates
• behaviour strategies and interventions
• multi-agency partnership work
• behaviour survey feedback
• a strengths and areas for development evaluation, including a dedicated section for 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, deputy heads and behaviour leads preparing termly or annual reports to governors.

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