The Ignite Capacity Audit Suite

The Ignite Suite

The Ignite Capacity Audit Suite

You can feel when a school is under pressure. What you rarely have is the data to show where, and why.

Most school data tells you what happened. Attendance figures, attainment, turnover rates. The Ignite audits work differently. They measure how your people feel as human beings at work, whether they feel safe, whether they feel they belong, whether they are actually growing. That is not soft data. It produces scored, structured results across every level of your school.

Organisational Audit

The whole picture, in numbers

The Organisational Capacity Audit maps how leadership, people, and systems are functioning and translates those scores directly into financial figures: the cost of absence, the cost of losing staff, the cost of a team that has quietly stopped giving everything.

Headteacher Audit

This one is for you

The Headteacher Capacity Audit is completed by you, about you. It looks honestly at your personal resilience, your professional autonomy, and the weight of systemic pressure you carry. A school can only be as sustainable as the person leading it, and this audit gives you the data to understand where you actually are.

Individual Staff Audit

Day-to-day experience, heard clearly

The Individual Staff Audit goes to the heart of what it feels like to teach. It asks whether your people feel safe enough to be honest, supported enough to stay, and trusted enough to grow.

How it works

Start with one audit, or the whole suite

Each audit works as a standalone diagnostic. You can begin wherever the need is greatest, whether that is with your own capacity as a leader, your staff's experience, or the organisation as a whole. For schools that want the full picture from the outset, the complete suite is available as a package.

The audits create awareness. They show you where you are with clarity and without judgement. What comes next is strategy: making sense of what the data is telling you and deciding, with confidence, where to go from here. The full package includes two sessions designed to do exactly that.

2 hours

INSET Session

2 hours

Leadership Session

These are not action plans. They are orientation. A clear, honest picture of where your school currently stands, one that only becomes more powerful over time. Used across months and years, patterns emerge, movement becomes visible, and growth can be recognised without pressure or comparison.

The schools that perform sustainably are not the ones that push hardest. They are the ones that have built conditions where people want to stay, want to contribute, and feel free to do their best work.

The Ignite audits tell you honestly how close you are to that.