What schools must or should publish online

Information that schools maintained by a local authority and academies must or should publish on their website has been updated.

The guidance has added a new section on pay gap reporting, updated the test, exam and assessment results and included information about a new requirement to publish a music development plan in the curriculum section.

Any employer with 250 or more employees on a specific date each year (the ‘snapshot date’) must report their gender pay gap data in a prominent place on their website within one year of their ‘snapshot date’, which, for most public authority employers, will be 31 March.

All schools should have a music development plan, as set out in the national plan for music education. From academic year 2024 to 2025, schools will be expected to publish a summary of their music development plan on their website. The summary should reflect how a school delivers music education to pupils and what changes they are planning in future years. Schools should then update the summary before the start of each new academic year.

The Department for Education has said that the summary would help pupils and parents or carers understand what a school offers and who a school works with to support this, including their local music hub and other music education organisations. The department has “published a short template as part of the guidance to help schools produce the summary”.

There is separate guidance provided for Maintained Schools and for Academies.