According to the School Information (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012, if a school does not have its own website then the governing body must arrange for this information to be published somewhere else online. In either case, parents must be given the website details.
Parents must also be provided with hard copies of this information if they request it, though it may be printed off the website.
Schools are no longer required to publish a prospectus.
Note: Independent schools are required to publish their child protection policy in addition to the above. Academies must publish their value for money statement within a month of submitting it to the ESFA.
Admissions policies published on the website must give clear information about admissions arrangements for all age groups that attend the school, including:
Alternatively, schools can simply explain how and where to find this information on the LA’s website.
This information must be updated every year, at least six weeks before the date when parents can express a preference for the school.
The requirement for voluntary aided and foundation schools to publish their admissions arrangements online falls under the School Admissions Code.
Academies and free schools should publish certain financial information about your school:
Maitained schools, academies, free schools and colleges must publish:
The information will include what childcare is on offer in primary and secondary schools, ranging from full-time nurseries to holiday and after-school provision.
School websites must also publish the name, postal address and telephone number of the school, as well as the name of a person who can be contacted regarding enquiries.
Schols must also publish the names of name of the headteacher/principal, chair of the governing body and name and details of your SENCO if you’re a mainstream academy
If you’re an academy or free school, you should also publish details about your academy’s owner:
This section must be categorised by year, and include:
Academies and free schools must:
Maintained schools must publish the following details about their governors:
There is currently no statutory requirement for maintained schools to publish an annual governance statement, though the DfE suggests this would be good practice.
Schools are encouraged to collect and publish governing board members’ diversity data. Board members can opt out of sharing their information, including protected characteristics, at any given time including after publication.
All academies and MATs must publish their scheme of delegation for governance functions.
School websites must include a link to or an explanation of how to find its most recent Ofsted report.
School websites must provide an explanation of how to find the school performance tables on the DfE website. The following specific results must be published on the school website itself.
Key Stage 2 results for:
Key Stage 4 results for:
Schools must publish the following information about their pupil premium allocation for the current academic year:
See the DfE website for a full list of pupil premium strategy requirements. Example strategy statements are available from the Teaching Schools Council.
Schools are required to publish information about their remote education provision on their websites. The DfE has provided a template for this statement but the format is not mandatory, and schools are encouraged to adapt it to suit their circumstances.
Schools should publish on their website their opening and closing times and the total time this amounts to in a typical week.
If your school receives year 7 literacy and numeracy catch-up premium funding, you must publish details of how your school spends this funding and the effect this has had on the attainment of the pupils who attract it.
You must include the following:
