Please find our policies below as per the DfE guidance document: ‘Statutory policies for schools and academy trusts‘.
Where there is a published electronic policy (as opposed to internally-held policies), these can be accessed by clicking the relevant hyperlink. Paper copies of these policies, or any other information on our website, can be requested free of charge via the ‘Contact Us‘ link.
SECTION 1:
These policies are all live and updated daily or regularly:
| POLICY | DfE APPROVAL LEVEL | NOTES |
|---|---|---|
| Register of pupils’ admission to school and attendance | Governing body, individual governor or headteacher | Held internally; updated daily |
| Register of business interests of headteachers and governors | Governing body can delegate approval subject to the local authority scheme | |
| School information published on a website | Governing body, individual governor or headteacher | Link to DfE document ‘What maintained schools must publish online‘ |
| Single central record of recruitment and vetting checks | Governing body, individual governor or headteacher | Held internally |
SECTION 2:
These policies must be updated annually:
| POLICY | DfE APPROVAL LEVEL | NOTES |
|---|---|---|
| Admission arrangements | Governing body, local authority, academy trust | |
| Child protection policy and procedures ** | Governing body or proprietor | Known as ‘Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy‘ |
| Health and safety ** | Employer | |
| Special educational needs and disability | Governing body or proprietor | |
| Teachers’ pay | Governing body or local authorities | Held internally |
SECTION 3:
These policies are updated less regularly:
| POLICY | DfE APPROVAL LEVEL | NOTES |
|---|---|---|
| Behaviour in schools ** | Headteacher can delegate | Known as ‘Positive Behaviour Policy‘ |
| Behaviour principles written statement ** | Governing body | Included in ‘Positive Behaviour Policy‘ |
| Capability of staff | Governing body or an individual governor | Held internally |
| Charging and Remissions ** | Governing body, individual governor or headteacher | |
| Children with health needs who cannot attend school | Governing body | |
| Data protection | Governing body, individual governor or headteacher | Includes Freedom of Information and GDPR information |
| Early Career Teachers | Governing Body | |
| First aid in schools ** | Employer | Known as ‘First Aid Policy‘ |
| Governors’ allowances | Governing body | |
| Instrument of government | Governing body | Oct 2021: DRAFT version of IoG – awaiting official seal from Bradford Local Authority. February 2022: Chased twice – still awaiting. |
| Premises management documents | Governing body, individual governor or headteacher | Held internally |
| School complaints | Governing body, individual governor or headteacher | Known as ‘Complaint Policy‘ |
| School exclusion | Governing body, individual governor or headteacher | Part of ‘Positive Behaviour Policy‘ |
| Sex and relationships education | Governing body, individual governor or headteacher | |
| Staff discipline, conduct and grievance (procedures for addressing) | For local authority maintained schools: governing body. For academies: governing body, individual governor or headteacher | Held internally |
| Statement of procedures for dealing with allegations of abuse against staff | Governing body, individual governor or headteacher | Held internally |
| Supporting pupils with medical conditions ** | Governing body can delegate | |
| Early years foundation stage (EYFS) | Governing body can delegate | |
| Accessibility Plan | Governing body, individual governor or headteacher | |
| Equality information and objectives (public sector equality duty) statement for publication | Governing body, individual governor or headteacher |
SECTION 4:
These policies are not currently held at All Saints’:
| POLICY | NOTES |
| Careers guidance: details of your careers programme and a provider access statement | Only applicable to secondary schools and FE institutions (see page 4 of here) |
| Protection of biometric information of children in schools and colleges | No biometric data is held at present. A new policy would be implemented if needed. |
** Policies to be read by all staff at induction
Financial Benchmarking information
The document ‘What Maintained Schools Must Publish Online‘ states that we must publish “…how many school employees (if any) have a gross annual salary of £100,000 or more in increments of £10,000.”
No staff member at the school has a gross annual salary of more than £100,000.
A link to the webpage dedicated to our school on the schools financial benchmarking service can be found HERE
As well as the statutory documents and information above, please find our (non-statutory) curriculum subject policies here: