School assurance log template: evidence for registration and review
The evidence, organised by the question a regulator asks.
School Assurance Log Template, free for independent schools.
One log of the checks an independent school already runs across a year, organised by the question they answer rather than by the date they happened. Each row names the activity, the evidence it produces, where that evidence lives, who verified it and when it falls due again, and carries the finding, the action and the owner where a check found a gap.
Three files in one zip: Assurance-Log.xlsx, the working document with a worked example beside your own; How-to-use-the-Assurance-Log.pdf, four pages that take a leadership team through it in one sitting; and What-next-EthosOne-Assurance.pdf, four pages on what the same work looks like when it runs live in EthosOne.
The evidence, organised by the question a regulator asks.
Free Assurance Log for independent schools: Assurance-Log.xlsx with a worked example, a four-page How-to and the What-next brochure for EthosOne Assurance. The evidence, organised by the question a regulator asks.
Your details stay in Australia. We email you the files, then occasional governance updates you can stop at any time.
What is in the pack
- Excel
Assurance-Log.xlsxWorked example: one school's full year, 24 verified activities across eight assurance areas, from child safety to boarding and early learning.
- PDF
How-to-use-the-Assurance-Log.pdfFour pages: what you have, what it takes and what you end with, then five steps that name the tab and the column each one touches.
- PDF
What-next-EthosOne-Assurance.pdfFour pages on the same work running live in EthosOne Assurance.
How schools use it
Agree the areas
Map your existing checks to the rows
Set the verifier, the frequency and the date
Record the first term
What it takes. One executive sitting of about ninety minutes, then ten minutes a month. What you end with. An agreed set of assurance areas, a named verifier on every row, and a board summary you can table.
The five we are asked every time.
Still weighing something up? Thirty minutes with us, on your own registers, answers the rest.
Get the free pack01Is the Assurance Log free?
Yes. Tell us who you are and the link is emailed to you. No trial, no card, and the file is yours whether or not you ever talk to us.
02What format is it?
Assurance-Log.xlsx opens in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets and the two PDFs open anywhere. The worked example tab or appendix is finished and protected; your own is blank and editable.
03Do we need EthosOne to use it?
No. The pack works on its own, and the How-to is written for a school that runs it in a spreadsheet or a document. The What-next brochure and the six notes in the file say where the work strains and what the platform does at that point.
04Who is the worked example?
One invented Australian independent school, the same one across all eleven packs, with a consistent principal, business manager, chair and set of risks. Nothing in it is a real school.
05What happens after I download?
The thank-you page names the three files and the first thing worth doing today, and offers the Board-Ready Governance Review as the next step. One email, no sequence you did not ask for.
What a pack is
- Eleven
- free packs, written for independent schools
- Three
- AI packs: the risk register, the incident plan and the vendor assessment
- Three files
- the working document, a four-page How-to and a What-next brochure
- One worked example
- in every pack, so the standard is visible before you write to it
- Stored in AustraliaAWS Sydney and Melbourne, one database per school
- AI stays in the country tooHosted in Sydney and Melbourne; never trained on your content
- Published, not describedOur policies in the Trust Centre · How we handle your data
