Free to use and adapt
24 free AI governance documents
to adapt for your school or trust.
The documents a school or trust is asked to produce when it starts using AI: the policy, the risk assessment, the DPIA, the acceptable use rules, and the plain guidance to hand to staff. Written to be adapted and put on your own letterhead, not signed as they stand.
Leadership
For leaders deciding how AI is introduced
For the person who has to decide how AI is introduced, and answer for it afterwards.
- 101
AI Implementation for Leaders
- 102a
AI Action Plan Checklist
Staff guidance
Guidance to hand to staff who use AI
Short pieces to hand to the people who will actually use it, including a poster for the staff room.
- 201
Staff AI Quick Start Guide
- 202
How AI Can Support You
- 203
Keeping It Safe AI Data
- 206
Poster Best Practice
- 208
What Not To Put Into AI
- 209
Try It Prompts
Policy templates
The policies and data documents you are asked for
The documents a school is asked to produce. Written to be adapted, not signed as they are.
- 301
DRAFT AI Strategy Statement
- 302
AI Policy Template
- 303
Risk Assessment
- 304
QA Data Protection and Processing
- 305
Data Processing Agreement
- 306
Data Protection Impact Assessment
- 307
BoardGovernor Summary Data Protection Impact Assessment
Compliance and safeguarding
How AI fits the duties your school already has
Where AI meets the duties a school already has: KCSiE, the PSED, assessment and intellectual property.
- 401
AI Ethics Safety
- 402
Access Audit Note
- 403
Acceptable Use Policy
- 405
KCSiE AI Scenarios Addendum
- 406
PSED Equality Note
- 407
Parental Communication Homework Policy Addendum
- 409
Intellectual Property Consent Pack
- 414
JCQ AI In Assessments Brief
Thinking
The reasoning behind the templates
The longer argument, for when someone wants the reasoning rather than the template.
Why 2025 is the turning point for AI in educational leadership
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