Safeguarding and contacts
- Safeguarding route remains reachable
- DSL and reporting information visible
- Telephone, email and address consistency
- Urgent reporting links still work
Monthly compliance watch
Audit the information most likely to drift out of date.
A monthly crawl checks presence, reachability, dates, broken links and meaningful changes. It is designed to surface governance risk early—not replace professional judgement.
Every month
Core assurance checks for public education websites.
Admissions and recruitment
- Application route and deadlines
- Open-event dates not left in the past
- Prospectus links and downloads
- Course, phase and entry-point information
Policy and publication presence
- Required-profile topics remain findable
- Documents have not moved or disappeared
- Visible years and versions are recorded
- Potentially stale items are escalated
Accessibility and inclusion
- Accessibility statement reachable
- SEND and equality information
- Broken document links
- Basic keyboard, heading and form checks
Governance and leadership
- Leadership and governance pages present
- Governor or trustee information changes
- Interests and attendance information
- Trust-to-school consistency checks
Parent and student essentials
- Term dates and calendars
- Uniform, meals and attendance routes
- School day, transport and wraparound care
- Mobile contact and absence-reporting journey
Change detection
The alert should explain what changed and why it matters.
Priority
Safeguarding policy link now returns an error
The public route used in last month's scan is no longer reachable. Check whether the file was renamed or removed.
Review
Prospectus still references the previous academic year
A visible 2024–25 reference was found on a live admissions page. Review before the next campaign.
Resolved
Accessibility statement restored
The page is reachable again and has been removed from the open-issues list.
Recommended ownership
Send each issue to the person who can actually resolve it.
DSL or safeguarding lead
Safeguarding routes, reporting information and public contact details.
School business manager
Policies, funding statements, governance information and review dates.
Admissions or marketing
Open events, prospectuses, application journeys and community visibility.
Website or IT provider
Broken links, accessibility, speed, security and technical page issues.