All schools must have a dedicated website that contains certain required information.
If your school doesn’t have a website, the school must still publish all of the information online, using an alternative website to host the information and making the address and details of the website known to parents and carers.
Here are the links to your school setting:
> What maintained schools should publish online
> What academies, free schools and colleges should publish online
In the absence of any statutory protocol, it’s sensible that your school’s website is updated each year, ideally over the summer. This counsel does have some advantages:
- Your school’s website, its virtual shop window, signals that you’re ready to go again in September,
- Governing bodies will want to see the school’s website reflect the previous years’ achievements,
- Ofsted will be assured that you have a regularly updated and compliant website,
- Your website is a key recruitment tool for candidates looking to work at your school,
- Websites are a dynamic resource so additional information can be published when it becomes available, for example, the outcome of an inspection, to which anyone can be directed,
- For those of you who are brave enough, it’s a good idea to get pupils involved in the website content – it’ll engage them and they’ll take ownership of and pride in their contribution.
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