Financial benchmarking link: what to publish on your school website
If yours is a maintained school, your website needs a link to your school's page on the DfE's schools financial benchmarking service.
Check this on my websiteWho it applies to
- Published on
- The school's own website
- School type
- Maintained schools
- School stage
- All stages, from early years to sixth form
- Does not apply to
- No school types are excluded
When it's due
Keep it up to date
There's no fixed date. Update it whenever something changes.
What's needed
Link to your school's own page on the GOV.UK schools financial benchmarking service from the statutory information or finance page on your website, and keep the link working.
What it must contain
No parts listedThe official sources name no separate parts for this requirement. We check that it is published and easy to find.
What the official sources say
Set out in 2 official sources:
What maintained schools must publish online
– a link to the dedicated webpage for their school on the schools financial benchmarking service
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ Financial information > What schools must publish
SI 2025/600 (amending School Information Regulations: Schedule 4 para 17, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool)
These Regulations amend the School Information (England) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/3093) to require maintained schools to publish a link to the school's page on the Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool website which is maintained by the Department for Education.
Must: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.§ Explanatory note; Schedule 4 paragraph 17 of SI 2008/3093 as amended by regulation 2(2)
Questions schools ask
Do schools have to link to the financial benchmarking service?
Maintained schools must. The official sources we check set nothing for academies.
When do we need to check the benchmarking link?
Keep it up to date. There's no fixed date. Update it whenever something changes.
Where does the requirement for the financial benchmarking link come from?
It is set out in What maintained schools must publish online and SI 2025/600 (amending School Information Regulations: Schedule 4 para 17, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool).
Recent changes to the official guidance
None of the published updates to the official sources change this requirement.
We last checked these sources on 21 September 2026.
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Official sources last checked 21 September 2026 · register version 1.0.4