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Freedom of Information

Guide to information available from Portal House School under the model publication scheme.

 

Information to be published

How the information can be obtained

Cost

Class 1 – Who we are and what we do

(Organisational information, structure, locations and contacts)

 

This will be current information only

(hard copy and/or website)

Website: www.portalhouse.sch

 

Hardcopy

Contact secretary for school prospectus

Free

 

 

 

Free

Who’s who in the school

Website: www.portalhouse.sch

 

Who’s who on the Governing Body and the basis of their appointment

Hardcopy – contact secretary

Free

Instrument of Government

Hardcopy – contact secretary

 

Contact details for the Headteacher and for the Governing Body (named contacts where possible with telephone number and email address (if used)

Website

Hardcopy – school prospectus

 

School prospectus

Website

 

Annual Report

Website

 

Staffing structure

Hardcopy – contact secretary

 

School session times and term dates

Website

 

 

Information to be published

How the information can be obtained

Cost

Class 2 – What we spend and how we spend it

(Financial information relating to projected and actual income and expenditure, procurement, contracts and financial audit)

 

Current and previous financial year as a minimum

(hard copy and/or website)

 

 

Annual budget plan and financial statements

Hardcopy – contact secretary

 

Capitalised funding

Hardcopy – contact secretary

 

Additional funding

Hardcopy – contact secretary

 

Procurement and projects

Hardcopy – contact secretary

 

Pay Policy

Hardcopy – contact secretary

 

Staffing and grading structure

Hardcopy – contact secretary

 

Governors’ allowances

Hardcopy – contact secretary

 

 

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Information to be published

How the information can be obtained

Cost

Class 3 – What our priorities are and how we are doing

(Strategies and plans, performance indicators, audits, inspections and reviews)

 

Current information as a minimum

(hard copy and/or website)

 

 

School profile

§        Government supplied performance data

§        The latest Ofsted Report

-         Summary

-         Full report

Hardcopy – contact secretary

Website: www.portalhouse.sch

               www.ofsted

 

Performance management policy and procedures adopted by the Governing Body.

Hardcopy – contact secretary

 

Schools future plans

Hardcopy – contact secretary

 

Every Child Matters – policies and procedures

Hardcopy – contact secretary

 

 

 

 

Information to be published

How the information can be obtained

Cost

Class 4 – How we make decisions

(Decision making processes and records of decisions)

 

Current and previous three years as a minimum

(hard copy and/or website)

 

 

Admissions policy/decisions (not individual admission decisions)

Hardcopy – contact secretary

 

Agendas of meetings of the Governing Body and (if held) its sub-committees

Hardcopy – contact secretary

 

Minutes of meetings (as above) nb this will exclude information that is properly regarded as private to the meeting.

Hardcopy – contact secretary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

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Information to be published

How the information can be obtained

Cost

Class 5 – What our priorities are and how we are doing

(Current written protocols. policies and procedures for delivering our services and responsibilities)

 

Current information only

(hard copy and/or website)

 

 

School policies including:

§        Charging and remissions policy

§        Health and Safety

§        Complaints procedure

§        Staff conduct policy

§        Discipline and grievance policies

§        Staffing structure implementation plan

§        Information request handling policy

§        Equality and diversity (including equal opportunities) policies

§        Staff recruitment policies

Hardcopy – contact secretary

 

Pupil and curriculum policies, including:

§        Home-school agreement

§        Curriculum

§        Sex education

§        Special Educational needs

§        Accessibility

§        Race equality

§        Collective worship

§        Careers education

§        Pupil discipline

Website: www.portalhouse.sch

Hardcopy – contact secretary

 

Records management and personal data policies, including:

§        Information security policies

§        Records retention destruction and archive policies

§        Data protection (including information sharing policies).

Hardcopy – contact secretary

 

Charging regimes and policies.

This should include details of any statutory charging regimes.  Charging policies should include charges made for information routinely published.  They should clearly state what costs are to be recovered, the basis on which they are made and how they are calculated.

Website: www.portalhouse.sch

 

 

 

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Information to be published

How the information can be obtained

Cost

Class 6 – Lists and Registers

 

Currently maintained lists and registers only

(hard copy or website; some information may only be available by inspection)

 

Curriculum circulars and statutory instruments

Hardcopy – contact secretary

 

Asset register

Inspection only

Free

Any information the school is currently legally required to hold in publicly available registers (THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE THE ATTENDANCE REGISTER)

Inspection only

 

 

 

 

 

Information to be published

How the information can be obtained

Cost

Class 7 – The services we officer

(Information about the services we offer, including leaflets, guidance and newsletters produced for the public and businesses)

 

Current information only

(hard copy or website; some information may only be available by inspection)

 

Extra curricular activities

Website: www.portalhouse.sch

 

School publications

Website: www.portalhouse.sch

 

Leaflets, books and newsletters

Website: www.portalhouse.sch

 

Additional Information

This will provide schools with the opportunity to publish information that is not itemised in the lists above.

 

 

 

 

 

Contact details                Mrs R. Bradley

Portal House School

Sea Street

St. Margaret’s at Cliffe

Dover

Kent  CT15 6SS: