The School Consent & AUP Toolkit

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EDITION 03  ·  2026  ·  FREE

The School Consent & AUP Toolkit

The structures for the documents that put an AI position into operation: a staff acceptable-use agreement, age-banded pupil agreements, and a parental consent instrument. Where published guidance exists on a field, the source is named beside it.

6 SECTIONS  ·  3 INSTRUMENTS  ·  12 PAGES

FOR SLT  ·  DSL  ·  GOVERNORS  ·  DATA PROTECTION LEADS

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WHAT'S INSIDE

1. 01

   The instruments

   What each document is, who the parties are, whether anything comes back — and which policy each one attaches to.

   2 PAGES
2. 02

   Staff agreement

   A fourteen-field staff acceptable-use agreement: scope and tools, output and accountability, boundaries and escalation.

   3 PAGES
3. 03

   Pupil agreements

   Six themes at three age bands. The register, the sentence construction, and how each band is issued change at every level.

   3 PAGES
4. 04

   Parental consent

   What a consent instrument is made of, and the fields that follow when consent is not given.

   2 PAGES
5. 05

   Issuing and review

   Named owners, issue points, collection, review cadence, and the triggers that bring a review forward.

   1 PAGE
6. 06

   Closing and reference

   Digital-consent age and governing instrument for six jurisdictions, each row dated and status-labelled.

   1 PAGE

SCOPE AND APPLICABILITY

This edition attributes rather than advises. Where a named regulator has published on a field, the note beside it gives the body, the document, and the date. Where none has, the field is carried and nothing is claimed. Use it to draft, issue, and file the instruments that sit beneath an existing AI position.

Guidance current as of 14 August 2026. Several relevant instruments have pending secondary legislation. Schools should verify against their own regulator and data protection adviser before issuing.

CONTEMPORARY REFERENCES INCLUDE

• DfE Generative AI: product safety standards, updated 19 Jan 2026
• Keeping Children Safe in Education 2026 (UK), statutory from 1 Sep 2026
• FTC COPPA Rule as amended, effective 23 Jun 2025
• EU AI Act, Article 4 — Regulation (EU) 2024/1689
• OECD–European Commission, Empowering Learners for the Age of AI, 2026
• UNESCO AI Competency Framework for Students, 2024

PAIRS WITH

Edition 02 — The AI Position Statement

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