All schools must publish specific information on its website to comply with the School Information (England) Regulation (2008), it is vital to ensure that your school website is compliant.
This guidance and checklist gives an overview of those requirements and the further information that the Department for Education (DfE) recommends that schools and colleges publish on their websites. Many academy trusts are under a duty to publish much of this further information, due to clauses in their funding agreements.
There are similarities between what maintained schools and academies must publish online such as admission arrangements, behaviour policies and pay gap reporting to name just a few items. There are also some key differences such as Annual Accounts for Academies, this is why it is key to ensure you are following the correct guidance (see below) to ensure that your school website is compliant.
Links to the government guidance pages:
What maintained schools must publish online
What academies, free schools and colleges must or should publish online
Realsmart have created a simple checklist that you can make a copy of and save.
Just check the relevant criteria based on your school or college type and fill in who checked and the date the last check was:
Realsmart Tools that can help when making your website compliant
We have a number of tools built into our websites that can help to to display this information in an efficient and attractive way. This can make it easy for you to structure a page or section in a way that makes this content easy to locate and signpost. This is key for ensuring that your school website is compliant for the DFE and anyone else who may need to easily find these items.
Here are a few examples of tools we have to offer when making a statutory page/section of your school website, click on an image to be taken to the relevant support article:
