AI Policy Review

Reviewing a policy against the latest government guidance is slow, detailed work — checking a child protection policy line by line against Keeping Children Safe in Education can take hours. Signal’s AI policy review does the comparison for you, producing a findings report that shows where your policy has gaps, cites outdated guidance, or could be improved, with suggested wording you can copy straight into the document.

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Running a review

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What the report contains

The report starts with a Summary — an overall assessment of how well the policy aligns with current guidance — followed by the individual findings, grouped by severity: Each finding shows:

• The policy section it relates to, with the relevant excerpt quoted so you can find it in your document
• The issue — a plain-language explanation of what is missing, outdated, or could be improved
• A citation — the government guidance document and edition the finding is based on, with the relevant passage quoted
• Suggested wording — draft text you can copy with one click and adapt into your policy

The foot of the report lists exactly which guidance documents and editions the policy was reviewed against, and the date the review was generated.

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Which guidance is used

Each policy is checked against the government guidance mapped to its Policy Type. Signal maintains a curated library of national guidance, including:

• Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) — child protection & safeguarding, online safety, staff behaviour, safer recruitment, and children missing education policies
• Working Together to Safeguard Children — child protection & safeguarding policies
• Behaviour in Schools, Suspension and Permanent Exclusion, and Mobile Phones in Schools — behaviour policies
• Searching, Screening and Confiscation — behaviour and child protection policies
• Working Together to Improve School Attendance — attendance and children missing education policies
• SEND Code of Practice — SEND policies
• The Equality Act 2010 and Schools — inclusion and anti-bullying policies
• Allergy Safety in Schools — allergy safety policies
• Children Missing Education — children missing education, attendance, and child protection policies

Choosing the right Policy Type when adding a policy therefore matters — it determines what the review checks against. Policies with the type Other cannot be AI-reviewed, because no guidance is mapped to them.

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Guidance stays current automatically

You do not need to tell Signal when the government publishes new guidance. Signal checks GOV.UK every week for new editions of every document in its library. When an update is found:

1. The new edition is brought into Signal automatically and replaces the old one, so future AI reviews always use the current guidance.
2. A summary of what changed between editions is generated.
3. A banner appears at the top of the policies page telling you which guidance changed and which of your policies it affects.
4. Every policy whose type is informed by the updated guidance is marked with an amber Guidance updated badge — a signal that a review is recommended even if the policy’s review date is not yet due.

See Guidance update alerts for what the banner shows and how to dismiss it once your school has considered the change. The Guidance updated badge on a policy clears when that policy is marked as reviewed, closing the loop: guidance changes → affected policies are flagged → you review them (with AI help) → the badge clears.

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Using the review well