Statutory Information
STATUTORY INFORMATION
Please find below statutory information published on our website. All information is contained in relevant menus, links and pages within the website but has been pulled in here for an overview for ease.
ADMISSION ARRANGEMENTS
September Admissions - normal point of entry
By 15 March each year, the school or trust must publish on its website:
The admission arrangements for children who will be starting school at the normal point of entry in September of the following year. It must retain them there for the whole of the academic year in which offers for places are made.
In-year admissions
By 31 August each year, the school or trust must publish:
How it will manage in-year applications for places (that is, applications for places in the middle of a school year, or to start in the September of a year which is not the normal point of entry).
Admission appeals
By 28 February each year, the school or trust must publish a timetable setting out how it will organise and hear admission appeals.
Admissions and Appeals (Key Information menu tab)
ANNUAL REPORTS AND ACCOUNTS
By 31 January each year, Academy trusts must publish their audited annual report and accounts on their website.
Financial Information (About Us menu tab)
BEHAVIOUR POLICY
Academies must publish their behaviour policy, including their anti-bullying strategy.
CHARGING AND REMISSIONS POLICY
Schools and academies must publish their:
Charging policy, giving details of activities for which they will charge parents and carers
Remissions policy, giving details of the circumstances in which they will wholly or partly waive any charge they would otherwise expect parents and carers to pay
Charging and Remissions Policy
COMPLAINTS POLICY
All academies and trusts (with the exception of 16-19 academies) must have a complaints procedure that meets the requirements in the standard at the Education (Independent School Standards (England) Regulations 2014 Schedule 1, Part 7. The complaints procedure must be available to parents and carers of children attending an academy.
Academy schools must publish the details of any arrangements for handling complaints from parents and carers about the support they provide for children with special educational needs and disability (SEND). They must do this as part of their SEN information report.
Special Education Needs and Disability Information Report
CONTACT DETAILS
All schools must publish:
- Their postal address
- Their telephone number
- The name of the member of staff who deals with queries from parents and carers, and the public
- The name and contact details of their special educational needs co-ordinator.
- The name of their headteacher or principal
- The name and contact details of the chair of their governing body, if applicable
Contact Us (About Us menu tab)
CURRICULUM
All schools must publish:
How parents, carers or other members of the public can find out more about the curriculum.
Schools with Key Stage 1 provision must publish a list of any phonics or reading schemes they use.
The content of the curriculum in each academic year for every subject, including mandatory subjects such as religious education (RE) – this applies even if it is taught as part of another subject or known by another name.
Information to make parents and carers aware they have the right to withdraw their child from all or part of RE.
An Accessibility Plan that sets out how, over time, they will increase the extent to which disabled pupils participate in the curriculum.
Alongside the content of their music curriculum, all schools are expected to publish information about their Music Development Plan.
Academies must publish their Policy on Relationships Education or relationships and sex education.
Curriculum Overview (Curriculum menu tab)
Relationships Education Policy
ETHOS AND VALUES
All schools must publish a statement of their ethos and values.
Vision, Values and Ethos (About Us menu tab)
EXECUTIVE PAY
Academy trusts must publish the number of employees whose salary and related benefits exceeded £100,000 during the previous academic year ended 31 August. They must present this information in:
- an easily accessible form
- £10,000 bandings
Financial Information (About Us menu tab)
GOVERNANCE INFORMATION
Academy trusts must publish the following in an easily accessible format on their website:
- A memorandum of association
- Their articles of association
- The names of trust members and academy trustees
- The relevant business and financial interests of members, trustees, local governors and accounting officers
- Their funding agreement
- Any supplemental funding agreement
- Up-to-date details of governance arrangements
The Academies Trust Handbook also says academy trust must also publish their Scheme of Delegation
Governance (About Us menu tab)
OFSTED REPORT
All schools and academies should publish either a:
- copy of their most recent Ofsted report, or
- link to the report on the Ofsted website
PE & SPORTS PREMIUM
All schools that receive PE and sport premium funding must publish, by 31 July each year:
- The amount of premium funding received
- A full breakdown of how it has been or will be spent
- The impact seen by the school on pupils’ participation and attainment in PE and sport
- How this improvement will be sustained
By 31 July each year, schools are required to publish the percentage of pupils in their year 6 cohort who have met the national curriculum requirement to:
- Swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
- Use a range of strokes effectively – for example, front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke
- Perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations
Sports Premium (Key Information menu tab)
PUBLIC SECTOR EQUALITY DUTY
Schools must publish:
- Details of how they comply with the public sector equality duty, updating this every year
- Their equality objectives, updating these at least every 4 years
PUPIL PREMIUM
What schools and academies must publish
By 31 December each year, schools that receive pupil premium funding must publish a strategy statement. It must explain:
- How the school’s pupil premium funding is being spent
- The education outcomes being achieved for disadvantaged pupils
- Schools must publish the statement in the DfE template provided on the pupil premium guidance page.
DfE recommends that schools plan their pupil premium spending over 3 years. If they do so, they must still update their statement annually to reflect:
- Their spending activity for the current academic year
- The impact of pupil premium in the previous academic year
Pupil Premium (Key Information menu tab)
REMOTE EDUCATION
Schools should publish information about their remote education provision.
SAFEGUARDING
Schools should ensure they have an effective child protection policy. This should be updated annually (as a minimum), and be available publicly either via the school website or by other means.
SCHOOL OPENING HOURS
What all schools and academies should publish:
- Official start time of the compulsory school day
- Official end time of the compulsory school day
- Total time this amounts to in a typical week, including breaks but not after-school activities
Opening Hours (Key Information menu tab)
SCHOOL UNIFORM
What all schools and academies should publish
Schools whose pupils are required to wear a uniform should publish an easily understandable policy on their website, in line with statutory guidance on the cost of school uniforms.
It should include information about:
- Optional or required items
- Items that will be worn only at certain times of year (for example, winter or summer uniform)
- Items that must be branded or can be generic
- Whether items can be bought only from a specific retailer or more widely
- Where second-hand uniform can be purchased
School Uniform (Key Information menu tab)
SPECIAL EDUCTAIONAL NEEDS AND DISABILITIES
Schools must publish an SEN information report. It should be updated annually and any changes to the information occurring during the year should be updated as soon as possible.
Special Education Needs and Disability Information Report
Special Education Needs and Disability Policy
TEST, EXAM AND ASSESSMENT RESULTS
Academies should, publish a link to the compare school and college performance service and to their performance measures page on it.
Key stage 2
Academies should publish their most recent key stage 2 performance measures, as published by the Secretary of State, comprising:
- The percentage of their pupils who achieved the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (combined)
- The percentage of their pupils who achieved a higher standard in reading, writing and maths (combined)
Their pupils average scaled score in:
- reading
- maths
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