Services · Website development · School websites
Codeeo delivers school website development UK schools, trusts and independent groups can keep compliant and current. England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland each set their own rules on what a school must publish, who inspects it and how admissions work, while UK GDPR, PECR and the Equality Act apply to every one. We build sites that respect those differences, with an editor simple enough for office staff and a structure strong enough for a growing trust.
A national approach does not mean one template for every school. It means a shared platform, shared standards for accessibility and data protection, and content that changes where the law, the inspectorate or the language changes.
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What the platform includes
Schools in different parts of the UK look similar to parents but sit inside different legal frameworks. An English academy publishes what its funding agreement and DfE guidance require. A Welsh school answers to Estyn and often works bilingually. A Scottish school publishes handbook information under Scottish regulations and is inspected by His Majesty's Inspectorate of Education. A school in Northern Ireland is inspected by the Education and Training Inspectorate.
Groups that operate across more than one of these, or that plan to, need a website platform that can hold different content rules side by side. The capabilities below are what we build for national and multi-school clients, and most of them work just as well for a single school that wants a solid foundation. Everything is configured, not hard coded, so a new rule or a new nation can be added without rebuilding the platform.
Statutory sections configured per nation: the DfE publishing list for England, handbook pages for Scotland, bilingual structures for Wales and the right inspection reporting for Northern Ireland. A school's settings decide which templates and checklists apply, so nobody publishes the wrong set of documents.
Each school publishes what its own rules require.
Dozens of school sites run from one installation, each with its own domain, branding and editors. Central teams publish shared policies, governance, annual reports and vacancies once, and they appear on every relevant site automatically. Local editors can override shared content only where the trust allows it.
Group-wide changes go live everywhere at once.
Paired language versions for every page, a switch that keeps the reader on the same content, and workflows that hold a page back until both versions are approved. Welsh medium schools can make Welsh the default language. Search works in both languages, and menus, dates and form labels change with the page.
Both languages are complete, not one translated as an afterthought.
A view for trust leaders and governors showing every statutory item across every school: present or missing, the owner and the review date. Alerts go to the right person before a policy expires or an annual statement falls out of date.
Gaps are visible to leaders before inspectors notice them.
Admissions pages that explain each school's criteria and point families to the right local authority, Scottish council or Education Authority in Northern Ireland, since each runs its own application process. Independent schools get registration and assessment flows instead. When a council changes its process, one update reaches every affected school.
Families always reach the right application route.
Every template meets WCAG 2.2 AA, with accessibility statements generated per school. The public sector accessibility regulations give schools a partial exemption, but forms and administrative content must still be accessible, and the Equality Act applies throughout.
Accessibility does not depend on which school built which page.
PECR-compliant cookie consent, analytics that only load after agreement, minimal data collection on forms, UK hosting on request and records of processing for each data protection officer. Pupil photo consent is tracked against each image.
UK GDPR duties are designed in, not patched on later.
Editors sign in with the Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace accounts your schools already use, so leavers lose access the day their account is closed, and passwords are not shared around the office. Roles map to job titles, so a teaching assistant can post class news while only the business manager edits policies.
Access is controlled centrally and securely.
Fee pages that show the full compulsory price including VAT, which applies to independent school fees since January 2025, and acceptance terms that set out cancellation rights where the Consumer Contracts Regulations apply to a place accepted online.
Fee information meets current pricing and consumer rules.
Technical SEO, clean URLs, school structured data and fast pages, so each school ranks for its own name and area rather than being buried under directories and comparison sites. Each school also gets its own analytics view, so heads can see which pages parents use and which they skip.
Parents find the school's own site first.
Who this is for
The case for a shared platform grows with every school you add. A single primary can manage well with a carefully built standalone site. A trust with twenty schools, a foundation with schools in two nations or a local authority supporting maintained schools gains far more from shared templates, central compliance tracking and one security and hosting arrangement. These are the four types of organisation we most often plan national school platforms for. In each case the first step is the same: an honest look at the current estate of sites, contracts and domains, because untangling those often takes longer than building anything new.
Trusts add schools through conversion and transfer, and each arrives with its own old website, supplier contract and content. We give the trust a platform where a joining school can be onboarded quickly, its content moved over, and its compliance tracked alongside the others. Shared policies stay consistent, while each school keeps its identity and local news.
We plan the onboarding process as carefully as the design.
Independent foundations and some trusts run schools in England and Wales, or in England and Scotland. Their sites must reflect different curricula, inspectorates and languages without looking like separate organisations. Nation-aware templates let the group keep one brand and one platform while each school publishes what its own system requires. Inspection reports from Ofsted, Estyn or HMIE sit in the right place for each school.
Some authorities offer a website service to their schools. A shared platform gives them consistent accessibility, security and data protection, with each school editing its own content. The authority can publish shared information, such as admissions guidance and term dates, once for every school it supports. Schools that later convert to academy status can take their site with them, content and domain intact.
Procurement and data agreements are handled in writing from the start.
Not every client is a group. A single school that expects to join a trust, or simply wants a site that will last, benefits from the same standards: accessible templates, consent-led analytics, a clear compliance checklist and content it fully owns. We scale the build to the school, not the other way round. If the school does join a trust later, its site can move onto the trust platform without starting again.
How we work together
Codeeo has no UK office. Our team of 80+ in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi works with schools and trusts across the UK by video call, with every workshop, review and training session recorded. We have delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US and are rated 4.7 from 23 Google reviews. National programmes get a named project lead, a steering group of your leaders, written decisions and milestone reports. Data processing agreements and security documentation are agreed before any school's data moves to the new platform. We work to your procurement rules, whether that is a framework, a tender or a direct award.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
For school groups we usually build a multi-site WordPress platform or a headless Next.js front end with a shared CMS, depending on scale and in-house skills. UK hosting is available, with backups, patching, monitoring and a documented recovery plan as standard. Everything is documented so your own IT team could take it over.
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Through templates and checklists configured per nation.
Each school is tagged with its nation and sector when it is set up. That setting decides which statutory sections, checklists and inspection reporting appear. An English academy sees the DfE publishing list, a Scottish school sees handbook sections, a Welsh school gets bilingual pages, and a Northern Ireland school gets the right inspection and admissions links. Shared content, such as group policies, still appears everywhere it applies, and leaders see compliance for all schools in one dashboard.
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