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Policy builder
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This mostly decides pupil use, because the age limits on consumer AI tools settle most of it for you.
No AI writes any of this. Every sentence comes from a fixed clause library (version 1.0), so the same answers always give the same policy, word for word. Your answers stay in your browser and in the link.
Updated for September 2026KCSIE 2026, the DfE product safety standards, JCQ rules on AI in assessments and the Data (Use and Access) Act, all in one place.What changed this term
The kit
Four documents to set up once, four to keep up to date, and a guide for every question in between. All free, all editable, none behind a login.
Starting from nothing? Nine steps, about a term
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Done in your first term, then looked at again only when the policy is reviewed.
Build it from ten questions, or download the model and edit it.
One A4 sheet for the staffroom and every new starter.
What you allow, what you teach, who to tell.
For exam candidates, before coursework starts.
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These change as your school’s tools change. Each one says when it needs attention.
Whenever a tool is approved or retired. Checked every term.
One per tool that touches personal data. Revisited when the tool changes.
Sent in writing before any new tool is bought.
Every term, for the governors’ meeting.
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One guide for each chapter of the book, revised whenever the rules move.
From the regulatory map to the first hundred days.
Thirty terms in plain English.
Every update to the guidance and templates, newest first.
The School AI Governance Handbook
for the slightly overwhelmed
Wes Akram
The book
The site gives you the pieces. The School AI Governance Handbook gives you the order they go in and the reasons for each one.
Data protection
Almost certainly, if the tool touches personal data about pupils or staff. The legal test in plain English, the seven steps with a worked example, and who should actually hold the pen.
Reviewed 28 September 2026
Exams
What counts as misuse, why the candidate's declaration decides who hears about a concern, why a detector score is never proof on its own, and the September briefing calendar.
Reviewed 28 September 2026
Safeguarding
What the 2026 edition actually says about AI, who it asks to do what, and the one question to put to your filtering provider in writing.
Reviewed 28 September 2026
Every regulator asks for the same five things in different words. That is the whole mountain.
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Which AI tools are approved, for whom, and for what.
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One that answers real staff-room questions in plain English.
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DPIAs and vendor questions for tools that touch personal data.
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Proof that staff and pupils have been taught.
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So the whole thing stays alive as the guidance moves.
Each update, sent when it is published and not otherwise. It tells you what moved and which of your documents it touches.
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