Inclusion strategies are due by 31 December 2026
Evaluate honestly. Listen widely. Publish with confidence.
Self-evaluate against the DfE’s 7 principles, hear from pupils, parents and staff, and publish a strategy your whole community can stand behind.
Free for schools for 3 months, no card needed. Free for local authorities, permanently.
The statutory duty is the deadline. The children are the point. These are the same three steps either way.
Work through the DfE's 7 principles one statement at a time — 42 in all, each with plain descriptions of what every level actually looks like. Rate it, note your evidence, name who owns it. Most schools do this across a few sittings rather than one long afternoon.
Send a short survey to pupils, families and staff. No accounts, no app — a link, or a QR code on a newsletter. Answers are anonymous, and results stay hidden until enough people have replied that no individual could be picked out.
Your strategy drafts itself from your own evidence: the gaps become barriers, the actions you adopt become costed activities, your lowest three principles become the priorities. Check it against the DfE's requirements, edit the words, export to Word or PDF.
Pupil, parent and staff voice
Inclusion is something children experience, so we ask them. Three short surveys measure whether people feel they belong, can join in, and can get at the learning — the three things the framework is ultimately about.
No accounts and no app: share a link, or print the QR code for a parents’ evening. Responses carry nothing that could identify who wrote them, and results stay suppressed until the group is large enough to report safely.
A score only appears once you have answered enough of a principle for it to mean something, and a 4 or 5 without current evidence and a named owner is flagged as provisional rather than quietly counted. No school shows as leading overall while any principle sits below established.
Three ready-made surveys measuring belonging, participation and access — a four-point emoji scale for pupils, agree-scales for adults. Share by link or printable QR code. Results come back as clear positives, with the weakest questions flagged for you.
Every statement carries practical actions drawn from the framework. Adopt the ones that fit, give them an owner and a term, and track them on a plan board. Anything you adopt becomes a real activity in your strategy instead of a placeholder.
Attach the policy, the minutes, the audit to the statement it supports. Files sit in private storage scoped to your school and open through links that expire after 5 minutes.
Attendance, persistent absence, suspensions, exclusions, belonging, staff confidence and participation — recorded each term and charted honestly. A single data point draws as a dot, not a trend, and every axis says which direction is good.
Local authorities see who has published and when the annual review falls due — never your working, your evidence or your survey responses. Maturity bands appear only if you switch sharing on. There is no ranking anywhere in the system.
Security and privacy
We hold no pupil-level records at all — no names, no dates of birth, no UPNs, no SEN status against a named child. The product is designed at school level, and there is no table in the system capable of holding a pupil record.
Accessibility
It would be a poor joke to sell schools an inclusion product that half their staff could not operate. Accessibility here is a build requirement with tests behind it, not a statement on a page nobody reads. The product:
It has to rest on an honest self-evaluation, be shaped by the people it affects, carry its costs, and be reviewed every year. That is a term’s work starting from a blank document. It is a few sittings starting from your own evidence.