Back in March 2025, Bridget Phillipson announced the introduction of ‘digital school profiles’. Something the government pledged would be a step towards making schools much more accountable for their actions. The aim of digital school profiles is to improve transparency in schools. Partly, to force schools to kick themselves up a notch in performance and, partly, to allow parents more information about what schools are available to their children and how those schools are performing.

Digital school profiles are nothing new, with Ofsted offering profiles online for schools, and various ‘ranking’ websites providing more information. However, the whole idea of the system devised by the government is to make the system much more centralised and, hopefully, better. Let’s see how it’ll work.

What are Digital School Profiles?

At the moment, it is not yet known what digital school profiles will entail. However, the basic proposal suggests that digital school profiles will aim to collate the information that, so far, has been spread across multiple resources. So, exam results, attendance, Ofsted reports, and any other important facts that a person would need to know about the school.

The idea is that parents won’t need to hop around multiple sites to find information about schools. They’ll find proper, up-to-date, information on a single website. The information should also be much clearer. This sort of accessibility will be fantastic as it will give parents useful information about how schools are performing.

Why is the Government Making the Change?

According to Bridget Phillipson, the purpose of digital school profiles is to offer a ‘significantly strengthened school accountability system’ coupled with raising ‘the bar on what we expect from schools’. Much of the idea of digital school profiles has been born from the amount of pressure the government has been facing to improve the state of schools in the country.

The government wants to make it easier to see which schools are performing well, and which ones leave a lot to be desired. By offering colour-coded judgements across multiple areas, schools (and parents) can easily see where a school is strong and where it is weak. This will, hopefully, signal a move away from single headline grades which can make determining where issues lie tough.

What This Means for Parents?

The main benefit for parents is that it becomes a whole lot easier to compare schools. Information will be much easier to read, and compare. This can be useful for parents who are fortunate enough to live in an area where their children can attend two different schools.

As we said, the data will also be clearer. There’ll be no bouncing between websites, trying to analyse the reams of information available to come up with a comparison. The comparison will be very easy to decipher.

It should also be much easier for parents to determine what the strengths and weaknesses of each school is. No need to read though loads of complicated Ofsted reports (although, they’ll still be available).

What This Means for Schools

Schools will have much better visibility of their performance data. This can be good or bad, depending on the school. Schools will just know information about how they are performing will be much, much easier to access.

Schools will have to work even harder to ensure that their websites are up to date and Ofsted-compliant. With the introduction of digital profiles, there is a much greater focus on ensuring that schools share the right information. All data on the school’s website needs to be clear and match any official profile.

How School Jotter Can Help

Here at School Jotter, we know just how much schools can have on their plate. While digital profiles are good news for education, it can be tough to stay compliant with the new rules. This is especially true in the early days. This is why School Jotter wants to help.

We can offer Ofsted-complaint website management, ensuring your school stays on top of ever-changing digital profile rules. We can ensure that all key performance information is displayed in parent-friendly formats. We can also ensure that parental engagement with your school’s website is far higher too.

Our team can help keep the link between your school website and Department for Education profile seamless, ensuring that parents can quickly find all the information they need.

Digital School Profiles Explained

New digital school profiles benefit parents in allowing them to have far greater clarity about how schools are performing, ensuring fairer comparisons between schools. Schools will have all their data front and centre, giving them far greater accountability. Hopefully allowing them to show off their achievements, or drive themselves to improve.

Digital school profiles are new, and schools need to stay on top of things to ensure they stay compliant with new rules. This means having a quality website designed. Get your website Ofsted-ready with School Jotter, ensuring that you spend less time keeping your school’s website complaint, and more time focusing on improving education in your school.

Rebuilding Education for the Future:

This Budget isn’t just numbers—it’s about resetting the stage for education in a rapidly changing world.

The £2.3 billion boost to core school funding means more per-pupil resources, helping schools manage rising costs while supporting diverse learning needs across the board. Schools can now plan further, upgrade materials, and give students the quality education they deserve.

£1.4 billion is earmarked to rebuild ageing school infrastructure, with 100 projects launching soon. Beyond aesthetics, this investment addresses structural needs, bringing school buildings up to modern safety and functional standards. Students and staff deserve environments conducive to learning, with comfortable, safe, and inspiring spaces.

For special needs education, a significant portion of funding will be used to upgrade SEN facilities and resources. This funding isn’t just about ticking a box—it’s about reshaping how schools integrate special needs support, making classrooms more accessible and inclusive. More schools will have the means to meet a wide range of learning differences, empowering all students to achieve their best.

And then there’s technology. Education can’t stand still while the world goes digital. Investments will bring modern tech tools into classrooms across the country, ensuring students leave school digitally literate and prepared. Updated systems will also enhance teachers’ ability to create interactive, engaging lessons, and support remote or hybrid learning if needed.

This Budget gives schools the chance to look forward and plan for a sustainable, resilient future—one where funding, facilities, and technology meet the needs of today’s and tomorrow’s learners. This isn’t just spending; it’s setting the stage for the next generation’s success.

Easter is fast approaching and primary teachers are looking for quick and easy ideas to engage students with DIY crafting. With that in mind, we created the infographic below, where teachers and pupils can find some of the greatest and simplest craft ideas for the classroom.
Many teachers are using our Resources app to store all the great ideas, documents and images they create or find online. This helps them to enhance the learning experience of pupils every Easter.

Webanywhere’s latest free guide has been put together to help you create a better website for your school.

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This is a question we hear many teachers ask – and our team regularly speak to schools wanting help with choosing the right content for their website.

Webanywhere has already created a checklist for schools (which you can find here) but now we can offer you even more help with keeping Ofsted happy – with a number of free events around the country.

Tracey Gentle, a CEOP Ambassador and former teacher, will speak at many of these events, using her knowledge of school websites – and what both you as a school and Ofsted as the inspectorate need to get out of having a website. She will even cover the latest additions to the Ofsted/DfE criteria – as of course the guidelines and requirements are updated all the time.
The full list of free sessions covering Ofsted requirements for school websites is below. If you would like further information, or would like to attend, please email events@webanywhere.co.uk.

Thursday 21st November 9.30am-12.30pm

Wolborough Primary School, Newton Abbott, Devon TQ12 2JU

 

Friday 22nd November 9.30am-12.30pm

Christ Church CE Primary School, Leigh, Wigan WN7 4HB

 

Thursday 28th November, 3.15-5.515pm

Westborough School, Westcliff-On-Sea SS0 5BS

 

Friday 29th November, 9am-12pm

St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary School, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 7DG

 

As you may know, the Department for Education introduced new requirements for school websites in September. We have produced a free guide to the changes, which can be downloaded here.
Changes include:

• Schools are no longer obliged to publish a physical prospectus
• There is a list of specific information which schools are required to make available on their website
• If a school has no website, this information must be published elsewhere on the web, and parents must be made aware of its location

Ofsted are also placing more emphasis on the quality of school websites. The Ofsted School inspection handbook from September 2012 states that planning for the inspection should be informed by analysis of: “information available on the school’s website, which may include a prospectus and other information for parents”. The handbook also states “Schools should encourage parents to complete Parent View by placing a link on their website to the Parent View website” (Parent View being the principal source of information that inspectors will use to judge parental opinions).

As you can see, a fully populated, regularly updated website is now essential to a school. With a School Jotter website, you can be sure this is taken care of. Our expertise in creating outstanding school websites is proven, with thousands of customers in the UK alone.

We create websites tailored to meet DfE and Ofsted standards, as well as to reflect the ethos of a school. The intuitive School Jotter website management system means that any member of staff with minimal technical knowledge can easily keep the website updated with all the latest information, with the Webanywhere support team always there to provide a helping hand if necessary.
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