What must a school website include?

Updated 29 October 2026 from GOV.UK. A guide for heads, business managers and governors, not legal advice.

What schools must publish

1. Contact details. Postal address, phone number, the name of the person who handles queries, and your SENCO’s name and contact details (mainstream schools).
2. Admissions. Community and voluntary-controlled schools link to the council’s admissions page. Foundation and voluntary-aided schools publish their own arrangements by 15 March, in-year arrangements by 31 August and an appeals timetable by 28 February.
3. Ofsted report. A copy of your latest report, or a link to it on the Ofsted website.
4. Results. A link to your page on the compare school performance service, plus your latest key stage 2 measures (primary) or key stage 4 and 16 to 18 measures (secondary).
5. Curriculum. What you teach in each subject in each year, including RE and the right to withdraw from it, your phonics or reading scheme (key stage 1), and how to find out more.
6. Behaviour policy. Under section 89 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006.
7. Complaints policy. Including how complaints about SEN support are handled.
8. Charging and remissions policies. What you charge for, and when you waive or reduce charges.
9. SEN information report. Updated every year, with your accessibility plan and arrangements for disabled pupils.
10. Pupil premium strategy. On DfE’s template, by 31 December each year.
11. PE and sport premium. Amount, spending, impact and year 6 swimming figures, by 31 July each year (primary schools that receive it).
12. Equality. How you meet the public sector equality duty, updated yearly, and equality objectives, updated at least every four years.
13. Governance. Your governing body and its committees.
14. Financial information. How many staff earn over £100,000, in £10,000 bands, and a link to your page on the schools financial benchmarking service.
15. Allergy safety policy. New from September 2026: published on the website and reviewed at least once a year.
16. Careers (secondary). Your careers programme and careers lead, and the provider access policy statement.

What schools should publish

• Ethos and values statement
• Uniform policy: required and optional items, branded items and where to buy second-hand
• Opening hours: start and end of the school day and the weekly total
• Governors’ names, terms, attendance and business interests
• Music development plan summary
• Remote education provision

The yearly deadlines

• 31 December: pupil premium strategy statement
• 28 February: admission appeals timetable (own admission authority schools)
• 15 March: admission arrangements for the following September (own admission authority schools)
• 31 July: PE and sport premium report and year 6 swimming figures
• 31 August: in-year admissions arrangements (own admission authority schools)

Academies and free schools

Academies use DfE’s separate guidance, what academies, free schools and colleges should publish online. Most items match the list above. Their funding agreement and the Academy Trust Handbook add trust-level items such as annual accounts and governance.

Keeping it compliant

The hard part isn’t building these pages, it’s keeping them current. Date every policy, put each deadline in someone’s calendar, and check the site against this list at the start of each term. A PDF that hasn’t changed since 2021 is the first thing an inspector notices.

Sources

• What maintained schools must or should publish online, DfE, last updated 24 October 2024
• What academies, free schools and colleges should publish online, DfE
• Maintained schools: governance guide, DfE (allergy safety duty from September 2026)