Freedom of Information
Guide to information available from New Siblands School under the model
publication scheme
Information to be published.
How the information
can be obtained
Class 1 - Who we are and what we do
(hard copy and/or website)
Cost
(Organisational information, structures, locations and contacts)
This will be current information only
Who’s who in the school
Who’s who on the governing body / board of governors and the basis
of their appointment
New Siblands School
May 2016
Website:
Our Learning/Classes
Our Community
Website:
Our Community/Governors
Free
Free
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Instrument of Government / Articles of Association
Contact details for the Head teacher and for the governing body, via
the school (named contacts where possible).
School prospectus (if any)
Annual Report (if any)
Staffing structure
School session times and term dates
Address of school and contact details, including email address.
New Siblands School
May 2016
Website:
Our Community/Governors
Website:
Our Community/Governors
Contact
Not applicable
Free
Website:
Our Community/Governors
Hard Copy:
From School Office
Website:
Dates/Term Dates
Website:
Contact
Free
Free
Free
Free
Free
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Class 2 – What we spend and how we spend it
(hard copy and/or website)
(Financial information relating to projected and actual income and
expenditure, procurement, contracts and financial audit)
Current and previous financial year as a minimum
Annual budget plan and financial statements
available on
Free
available on
Free
available on
Free
Details of expenditure items over £2000 – published at least annually
available on
but at a more frequent quarterly or six-monthly interval where
practical.
Procurement and contracts the school has entered into, or information Hard copy available on
relating to / a link to information held by an organisation which has
request
done so on its behalf (for example, a local authority or diocese).
Free
Capital funding
Financial audit reports
New Siblands School
May 2016
Hard copy
request
Hard copy
request
Hard copy
request
Hard copy
request
Free
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Pay policy
Staff allowances and expenses that can be incurred or claimed, with
totals paid to individual senior staff members (Senior Leadership
Team or equivalent, whose basic actual salary is at least £60,000 per
annum) by reference to categories.
Staffing, pay and grading structure. As a minimum the pay
information should include salaries for senior staff (Senior Leadership
Team or equivalent as above) in bands of £10,000; for more junior
posts, by salary range.
Governors’ allowances that can be incurred or claimed, and a record
of total payments made to individual governors.
Class 3 – What our priorities are and how we
are doing
New Siblands School
May 2016
Website:
Information/Policies
Not applicable
Free
Hard copy available on
request
Free
Website:
Community/governors
Payments available in hard
copy on request
(hard copy or website)
Free
Freedom of Information
Guide to information available from New Siblands School under the model
publication scheme
(Strategies and plans, performance indicators, audits, inspections and
reviews)
Current information as a minimum
School profile (if any)
And in all cases:

Performance data supplied to the English or Welsh Government
or to the Northern Ireland Executive, or a direct link to the data

The latest Ofsted / Estyn / Education and Training Inspectorate
report
- Summary
- Full report
 Post-inspection action plan
Performance management policy and procedures adopted by the
governing body.
New Siblands School
May 2016
Free
Ofsted report available on
Website via link on home
page
KS2 & KS4 progress on
Website: Our Learning
School action plan
available in hard copy on
request
School uses South
Gloucestershire Council
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Performance data or a direct link to it
The school’s future plans; for example, proposals for and any
consultation on the future of the school, such as a change in status
Safeguarding and child protection
Class 4 – How we make decisions
model policy – hard copy
available from school office
KS2 & KS4 data on
Website:
Our learning/KS2 & KS4
results
Not applicable
Website:
Information/Policies
(hard copy or website)
Free
Website:
Information/Policies/Admis
sions statement
Free
(Decision making processes and records of decisions)
Current and previous three years as a minimum
Admissions policy/decisions (not individual admission decisions) –
where applicable
New Siblands School
May 2016
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Agendas and minutes of meetings of the governing body and its
committees. (NB this will exclude information that is properly
regarded as private to the meetings).
Hard copy – available on
request
Class 5 – Our policies and procedures
(hard copy or website)
Free
(Current written protocols, policies and procedures for delivering our
services and responsibilities)
Current information only.
Records management and personal data policies, including:
 Information security policies
 Records retention, destruction and archive policies
 Data protection (including information sharing policies)
Charging regimes and policies
Class 6 – Lists and Registers
New Siblands School
May 2016
Website:
Information/Policies
Free
Website:
Information/Policies
(hard copy or website;
some information may only
be available by inspection)
Free
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Currently maintained lists and registers only (this does not include the
attendance register).
Curriculum circulars and statutory instruments
Statutory Policies:
Website/Information/Polici
es
Disclosure logs
Not applicable
Asset register
Available by inspection via
the School office
(hard copy or website;
Class 7 – The services we offer
some information may only
(Information about the services we offer, including leaflets, guidance
be available by inspection)
and newsletters produced for the public and businesses)
Current information only
Extra-curricular activities
Out of school clubs
Services for which the school is entitled to recover a fee, together
with those fees
New Siblands School
May 2016
Not applicable
Not applicable
Website:
Information/Policies/Chargi
ng policy
Free
Free
Freedom of Information
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publication scheme
School publications, leaflets, books and newsletters
New Siblands School
May 2016
Website:
Home/Newsletters
Free