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EduGapIntelligent trust systems

Trust executives, IT and data directors and governance leads

AI Readiness

Staff are already using AI tools, expectations are rising, and few trusts have an agreed, evidenced position on where AI is appropriate.

Who this affects

  • Chief executives
  • IT and data directors
  • Data protection leads
  • Governance professionals

What usually makes it difficult

  • No current register of AI tools in use
  • Unclear ownership of AI decisions
  • Uncertainty about what data may be used
  • Pressure to adopt without an assessment route

What EduGap could build

An indicative scope for this area

Actual scope is agreed during the operations review and recorded in your system blueprint.

  • An AI product register with approval decisions and reviewers
  • A defined assessment route for new AI use cases
  • Trust-specific AI assistants with scoped permissions
  • Human approval rules for every consequential AI output
  • Reporting on AI use to executives and trustees

Example workflow

  1. 1A school requests approval for an AI tool.
  2. 2The assessment route gathers purpose, data and controls.
  3. 3Named reviewers record their decision.
  4. 4The register is updated with a re-review date.
  5. 5Trust-wide AI use is reported to the board.

Example management view

  • AI tools in use by school
  • Approval status and reviewer
  • Re-reviews due
  • AI-assisted outputs awaiting human approval

How the platform approaches it

  1. 1Record honestly what is already in use.
  2. 2Give AI decisions a named owner and a route.
  3. 3Scope trust AI assistants to authorised data only.
  4. 4Keep humans in control of consequential outputs.

Capabilities used

  • AI product register
  • Assessment workflow
  • Scoped AI assistants
  • Approval controls
  • Audit history
  • Reporting

Intended outcomes

Design goals for the platform, not measured results from real schools.

  • An honest picture of AI use
  • A defined route for new requests
  • AI introduced purposefully rather than accidentally

EduGap does not assess the legal or data protection compliance of third-party AI tools, and AI does not determine compliance, safeguarding, employment or expenditure decisions.

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  • Filtering and Monitoring Reviews

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Could your trust operate with greater clarity?

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