Education Options
A daily companion for school leaders
A compliance, governance and readiness dashboard for leaders of UK independent schools and British international schools, so a Head can see at a glance that the school is on top of everything it must do.
No card required. Full access for 21 days, then €1,140 a year if you stay.
Every view answers the same question: is the school on top of everything it must do?
Every statutory duty your school carries, in one live register built on the Independent School Standards, the BSO and COBIS standards and KCSIE, each with its status and owner.
Safeguarding and mandatory staff training in one view, so nothing lapses quietly and renewal dates never arrive as a surprise.
The statutory policies your school must hold and publish, tracked with review dates, so your website and files stand up to scrutiny.
Minutes, registers and governance documents kept in order and in one place, ready for the day someone asks to see them.
A structured self-evaluation across the areas inspectors focus on, so you know where you stand before they tell you.
Statutory and guidance changes tracked for you and shown before they become compulsory, then folded into the register, so nothing arrives unannounced.
Attach each policy or piece of evidence to the duty it satisfies, and print a clean evidence folder when someone asks to see it.
One home screen. Green, amber and red across the whole school, so a Head can see in seconds what needs attention today.
The policy assistant
No other compliance tool does this. The Companion's assistant works from sourced requirements, drawn from the regulations and statutory guidance themselves, and it never guesses: what it does not know, it asks or marks plainly for you to confirm.
Upload any statutory policy and get a row-by-row report against every sourced requirement that applies to your school, citing the regulation each finding rests on.
A policy that has fallen behind comes back as a corrected redraft: what already meets the standards is kept in your school's own voice, what does not is fixed, what is missing is added.
Starting from nothing, the assistant asks you how your school actually works, then drafts the policy around your answers, structured so every applicable requirement is addressed.
Every check and every draft is saved to your school's review history, with owner notes and sign-off, so there is an audit trail of what was checked, what was found and who closed it. In beta now and rolling out to founding schools first. Included in the subscription; the published regulations remain authoritative and the judgement is always your school's.
The Head's Companion is an Education Options product, built by current and former Heads of School who have carried everything this dashboard holds: the standards, the training records, the statutory policies and the inspection cycles. Meet the team behind it at Education Options.
New to headship, or preparing for an inspection? The team behind The Head's Companion also advises schools directly: inspection readiness, policy audits, and mentoring for Heads.
For the Head. One school, billed annually as a single invoice.
Guidance to verify against the source, not a guarantee of compliance.