Equality and Diversity Audit

Evaluating your school's approach to equality and diversity requires systematic reflection across policies, practice, culture and leadership. This pack provides editable tools to help headteachers, deputy heads, equality leads and governors assess provision with confidence and create a clear action plan that meets legal duties whilst building a school community where everyone is valued.

Inside, you'll find:

☑️ 24-page equality and diversity audit document – your core self-evaluation tool, with reflective prompts and structured questions across seven key areas. Each section includes space to capture your current position, identify where you want to be, and note supporting evidence. The seven sections are:

• Policies and Procedures
• Pupil Experience and Voice
• Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
• Staff Development and Recruitment
• Community Engagement and Partnerships
• Learning Environment
• Leadership and Strategic Planning

Each section ends with a reflective summary where you can identify your provision's current developmental stage and capture key priorities for action.

☑️ 18-page equality and diversity audit guidance document – comprehensive PDF guidance with detailed information on equality and diversity, helping you understand your legal duties and approach your audit with confidence.

☑️ Equality and diversity action plan template – helps you turn audit findings into prioritised, time-bound actions with clear ownership and measurable outcomes that demonstrate your ongoing commitment to advancing equality.

☑️ Equality and diversity document checklist – provides a comprehensive list of policies, data sources and evidence you may need to support your audit, from equality statements to workforce diversity data.

☑️ Equality and diversity question bank – ready-to-use survey and interview questions organised by stakeholder group (pupils, parents and carers, staff, and governors) to gather views, test assumptions and inform your self-evaluation.

☑️ Equality and diversity one-page summary template – distils your key findings, strengths and priorities into a concise format perfect for presenting to governors, trustees or senior leadership team meetings.

All resources come in fully editable Word format apart from the PDF guidance, so you can adapt them for your school's specific context, whether you're a small primary, large secondary or special school.

This pack is designed for headteachers, deputy heads, equality leads, SENDCos, and governors who are responsible for evaluating and improving how the school promotes equality and challenges discrimination.

It's particularly valuable if you're preparing for an Ofsted inspection, reviewing your equality objectives, responding to concerns about discrimination or bias, or simply want to take a proactive, systematic approach to reviewing this crucial area of school life.

Trust executives, MAT leaders and link governors will also find this useful when scrutinising how effectively the school meets its duties under the Equality Act 2010 and creates an environment where all pupils and staff can thrive regardless of their background or identity.

This audit is essential if you're developing new equality objectives, implementing anti-racism strategies, strengthening provision for LGBTQ+ pupils and staff, or reviewing provision following stakeholder feedback about discrimination or exclusion.

This comprehensive pack helps you tackle the most common challenges leaders face when auditing equality and diversity:

"How do we know if our equality provision is good enough?"
The 24-page audit tool covers every aspect of provision – from policies and recruitment to curriculum content and physical environment – giving you a clear picture of strengths and areas requiring development.

"How can we move beyond box-ticking to create genuine change?"
The audit prompts you to examine unconscious bias, intersectionality, curriculum representation, staff diversity, and lived experience – pushing you beyond compliance toward authentic culture change.

"Where should we focus our EDI improvement efforts?"
The action plan template helps you prioritise the areas of greatest need or impact, set realistic targets, and assign clear responsibility for driving change.

"How do we present our equality work to governors without overwhelming them?"
The one-page summary template captures your audit findings, current provision levels, and next steps in a format perfect for governance meetings and strategic planning.

If you're working on evaluating and improving your equality and diversity provision, these resources help you strengthen related aspects of your provision:

Inclusion Audit – Take a focused look at the Ofsted quality of education judgement area of inclusion. This audit helps you evaluate how effectively you identify and remove barriers to learning for all pupils, including those with SEND, disadvantaged pupils, and those who may face other obstacles to accessing the curriculum.

Personal Development and Well-being Audit – Evaluate your whole-school approach to personal development. This audit helps you assess how effectively you're developing pupils' character, resilience, wider life skills and wellbeing alongside their academic progress, complementing your equality and diversity work with a broader view of pupil development.

Everything You Need to Start Leading SEND – Essential toolkit for new SENDCos taking on strategic responsibility for SEND provision. This pack helps you understand your role, build systems for identifying and supporting pupils with additional needs, and ensure your SEND provision aligns with your equality duties and creates truly equitable outcomes.

Have a look at what's in the pack here: Equality and Diversity Audit Pack Preview