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School policy register template: every policy a school must hold

Every policy a school is expected to hold, already listed.

School Policy Register Template, free for independent schools.

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The Policy Register by Domain free template pack: the How-to guide and the What-next brochure
Free template pack · the How-to guide and the What-next brochure.

One register of the policies an Australian independent school is expected to hold, grouped by domain and already written out, so your first job is answering Held? rather than working out what the list should be. Against each one you record your own policy name, its owner, the approver who is the gate, the current version and its status. The empty cells are the school's gaps, and nobody has to say "gap".

Three files in one zip: Policy-Register.xlsx, the working document with a worked example beside your own; How-to-use-the-Policy-Register.pdf, four pages that take a leadership team through it in one sitting; and What-next-EthosOne-PolicyAI.pdf, four pages on what the same work looks like when it runs live in EthosOne.

Free template pack

Every policy a school is expected to hold, already listed.

Free Policy Register by Domain for independent schools: Policy-Register.xlsx with a worked example, a four-page How-to and the What-next brochure for EthosOne PolicyAI. Every policy a school is expected to hold, already listed.

What arrives in the Policy Register by Domain pack: the working file, the How-to guide and the What-next brochure
Policy-Register.xlsx · Excel, with the worked example inside, the How-to guide and the What-next brochure

Your details stay in Australia. We email you the files, then occasional governance updates you can stop at any time.

The files arrive on the next page and in your inbox.

What is in the pack

  • ExcelPolicy-Register.xlsx

    23 best practice policies across six domains: Student Safety and Wellbeing, Privacy, Data and Information Management, Governance, Finance and Employment, Operations and Risk, Enrolment and Community, Work Health and Safety.

  • PDFHow-to-use-the-Policy-Register.pdf

    Four 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.

  • PDFWhat-next-EthosOne-PolicyAI.pdf

    Four pages on the same work running live in EthosOne PolicyAI.

How schools use it

  1. Read the worked example, then move across

  2. Answer Held? for all 23

  3. Name the owner and the approver

  4. Record the version and the status

What it takes. One sitting with the policy folder open, about ninety minutes. What you end with. A register that says which of the expected policies you hold, with an owner and an approver on each, and the gaps named.

Frequently asked questions

The five we are asked every time.

Still weighing something up? Thirty minutes with us, on your own registers, answers the rest.

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  1. 01Is the Policy Register by Domain 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.

  2. 02What format is it?

    Policy-Register.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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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 describedTrust Centre · ISMS policy · How we handle your data

Every policy a school isexpected to hold, already listed.

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