Every policy in this vault carries the following YAML frontmatter. Tags drive the audience views, the commissioner pack, and the Nudge platform sign-off integration.

---
title: <Policy Title>
audience: internal | external | both
groups: [list of groups this policy is relevant to]
provision: nudge-education | neo | haven | all
type: core | addendum | standalone-neo | inactive-neo
status: live | draft | archive
version: <e.g. Dec 2025 or v04.26>
owner_role: <role responsible — DSL, DPO, Director, etc.>
source_file: <original filename for audit>
neo_addendum: true | false
last_reviewed: YYYY-MM-DD
---

Field reference

audience

  • internal — staff only; not surfaced on the public Quartz site
  • external — commissioners, parents, carers, learners; surfaced publicly
  • both — surfaced publicly with internal supplementary detail visible to staff via Nudge platform

groups

  • all-staff — every Nudge Education employee
  • practitioners — named practitioner / mentor role across all provisions
  • qualified-teachers — subject-specialist teachers (NEO live lessons)
  • dsl-safeguarding — DSL, DDSL, and named safeguarding team
  • slt-directors — Senior Leadership Team and Directors
  • office-staff — finance, admin, HR, operational support
  • commissioners — Local Authority commissioning officers
  • schools — school-based commissioners, school DSLs, AP coordinators
  • parents-carers — families of learners
  • learners — learners themselves

provision

  • nudge-education — applies to Nudge Education Ltd parent operations
  • neo — applies to Nudge Education Online specifically
  • haven — applies to Haven (rare in this vault — Haven has its own)
  • all — applies across all Nudge Education-operated provisions

type

  • core — canonical Nudge Education policy
  • addendum — NEO online overlay added to a core policy (lives within the core file as a section)
  • standalone-neo — NEO-only policy (no parent equivalent)
  • inactive-neo — Nudge Education policy explicitly not applicable to NEO online provision
  • meta — vault meta documents (taxonomy, indexes, change logs)

status

  • live — current, signed-off
  • draft — in progress, awaiting sign-off (typically DSL for safeguarding)
  • archive — superseded version retained for audit

neo_addendum

  • true — this core policy contains an NEO Online Addendum section
  • false — no NEO addendum (NEO inherits unchanged, or NEO has a standalone)