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Stress-free Ofsted compliance for school websites
Get a clear picture of your school website's Ofsted compliance in minutes, not weeks of manual checking — then fix any gaps with AI-guided assistance.
Signal Layer Education is fast, easy-to-use, comprehensive, and designed specifically for maintained schools in England. It'll show you exactly where the Ofsted compliance gaps are on your website, and guide you to easily fix them yourself (no web developer required!).
Illustrative preview — your review reflects your live website
How it works
Review
We check every page and PDF against the DfE's published requirements and the Ofsted framework.
Fix
Where there are gaps, our AI guides you to ready-to-publish wording — no developer needed.
Re-check
We re-check every two months against the latest gov.uk guidance, so quality never slips.
Status at a glance
Every Ofsted criterion gets one of four results
We assess each criterion — not each page. Your compliance status depends on the required criteria only, so you can fall short on a recommended one and still be compliant.
For every criterion we show where we looked — the exact pages and PDFs — and the evidence behind the result.
You're covered — the required criterion is met, with evidence on your site.
We found related content but couldn't confirm the criterion — worth a human look.
A required criterion appears unmet across the pages we checked — a compliance issue.
A recommended criterion or good-practice suggestion, not compulsory.
What Signal Layer does
Review your website against Ofsted's rules
We check your site against the DfE's published requirements for maintained schools, plus the safeguarding, attendance and restraint guidance, and the Ofsted inspection framework.
Get ready-to-publish fixes for any gaps
Where we find gaps, our AI guides you through updating your policies to meet Ofsted's requirements. You can upload your existing documents, and we'll pull the correct information into a ready-to-publish document, complete with suggested wording. It's ready-to-publish, right away.
Check every page, and every PDF
A lot of school policies live in PDF documents that aren't easy to find. Never worry if they're compliant again — we pull them in automatically, with sensible filters to avoid crawling junk or counting linked government documents as your own.
Separate ‘must haves’ from ‘nice to haves’
Findings are grouped into what you must publish, what you should publish, and what's good practice — so you know which gaps are legal compliance issues and which are improvement opportunities.
Automatically stay up to date
We re-check your website every two months — and we ensure we're always reviewing against the latest underlying gov.uk guidance.
Accessibility
Accessibility is a separate legal duty
On top of the DfE's publishing requirements, your school website must also meet accessibility law — WCAG 2.2 AA under the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations — and publish an accessibility statement. Signal Layer covers that too. See how we handle accessibility
Who it's for
Specifically designed for maintained schools in England.
Our standards are tailored to maintained schools. Academies, free schools, FE colleges and independent schools follow different rules and are covered by a separate service.
Free overview review
Full compliance service
School advisers, improvement partners and inspectors working across a number of schools — get in touch and we'll put together a plan that fits.
Get a free review of your website's compliance
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Prefer us to demo the platform directly, or have a question? Drop our London-based team a line:
hello@signal-layer.ai