Our quality marks
Independent accreditation that recognises and strengthens the great work already happening in your school. Each mark is awarded at Established, Advanced or Leading, against a clear, supportive framework.
Choose your mark
Explore the quality marks
Each mark stands on its own. Hold one, or build a picture across several.
Inclusion Quality Mark
Whole-school inclusion — from leadership and SEND support to family engagement and fairness for every pupil, regardless of background, disability, or identity.
Find out more →Attendance Quality Mark
A whole-school approach to attendance — from leadership strategy and data analysis to early intervention, tackling persistent absence, and genuine family partnership.
Find out more →Enrichment Quality Mark
Curriculum breadth, extracurricular opportunity, community partnerships, and meaningful participation — the full picture of what a school offers beyond core academic study.
Find out more →SEND Quality Mark
SEND leadership, identification and assessment, quality of provision, teaching and learning, family partnerships, and outcomes for children with special educational needs and disabilities.
Find out more →Behaviour Quality Mark
Culture and relationships, prevention, classroom practice, pastoral support, exclusion and reintegration — moving beyond sanctions to a school where every child can learn.
Find out more →Governance Quality Mark
How your board operates — structure and effectiveness, strategic oversight, financial governance, accountability and challenge, community representation, and board development.
Find out more →Wellbeing Quality Mark
Mental health support, physical wellbeing, pupil voice and agency, staff wellbeing, and the conditions for genuine belonging — for every person in your school.
Find out more →Safeguarding Quality Mark
Whether safeguarding is genuinely embedded in how your school operates — not just in your policy folder, but in your culture, your systems, your…
Find out more →Leadership Quality Mark
Strategic leadership, staff development, distributed leadership, culture, accountability, and impact — what strong school leadership actually looks like from the inside, assessed by someone…
Find out more →Alternative Provision Quality Mark
Independent, externally assessed accreditation for non-school alternative provision — built on the DfE voluntary national standards and set deliberately above them.
Find out more →The same process for every mark
Whichever mark you choose, the route is the same.
Register
Tell us which mark and level, and we talk it through with you first.
Self-evaluate
You rate your own practice against the framework and point to the evidence.
The visit
A reviewer who has read everything first, so the day is a conversation.
Your report
Quality-checked, specific, and ready to put in front of your governors.
Ready to get started?
Schools, trusts and groups can register their interest in any of our quality marks today.