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Stored in Ireland

Your policies and records are stored in Ireland. Every provider that handles them is named in our DPA.

Private to you

Each organisation's policies are kept apart. No one else can see yours.

Nothing changes on its own

Giraft prepares the next step. Nothing is sent, approved or published until you say so.

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The same spine — map, review, approve, publish, evidence — shaped to the policies your sector actually holds.

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The live policy register for secondary schools — mapped, reviewed, ratified, published, evidenced.

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One live policy register, sized for a teaching principal and a volunteer board.

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The record around your service's policies: review dates, sign-off and staff acknowledgement.

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A live governance and audit layer for cross-cutting institutional policy.

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What Giraft does · 1 of 7

Three ways to start a policy.

Whether you draft from scratch, generate from our catalogue, or bring your existing work — every policy ends up in the same review, approval, and audit pipeline.

01

National templates

DEY-aligned, statutorily-grounded, ready to circulate. Pre-cited against the relevant Acts and Circulars.

Bí Cineálta Procedures (2024)

02

Giraft templates

Our curated catalogue, drafted from Irish education law and refined with school feedback.

Children First Act 2015

03

Bring your own

Bring your existing policies as Word documents. Each one joins the same review, approval and acknowledgement record.

Your work, our scaffolding

What Giraft does · 2 of 7

Every comment, in one panel.

When you circulate a policy, every staff comment, parent comment, and Board concern lands in one panel alongside the policy text. No chasing email threads. No PDFs scribbled on. No 'I sent you that on WhatsApp three weeks ago.'

Review feedback · 3 awaiting

v3 · circulating

3. Reporting Procedures

2 days ago

J. O'Connor (Deputy)

“The escalation path here doesn't mention the DLP by name. Should it?”

Giraft · suggested reply

The DLP is named in §1 and referenced in the cross-section flow. Children First Act 2015 §14 establishes the role; we already point to it.

5. Online Safeguarding

3 days ago

M. Walsh (Parent)

“Could you spell out what 'inappropriate use' means in this section?”

Giraft · suggested reply

Reasonable ask — current wording is general. Suggest substituting a definition with concrete examples (filters, messaging apps, confidential material).

7. Staff Training

4 days ago

A. Murphy (Chair)

“Annual refresher is good. We should specify Garda vetting renewal too.”

Giraft · suggested reply

Vetting cycle (Garda Vetting Bureau, every 3 years) is named under §6. We can cross-link from §7 for clarity.

What Giraft does · 3 of 7

One-click edits in response to comments.

When you'd rather change the text than defend it, Giraft drafts the exact change. Red strike, green replacement — exactly what would change. One click to apply, every change recorded against the comment that triggered it.

Suggested edit · §5 Online Safeguarding

PENDING

Giraft: “The reviewer is asking for clarity on what counts as inappropriate use. Substituting a definition with examples should resolve.”

−Inappropriate use of school technology will be addressed under this policy.
+Inappropriate use — including unauthorised messaging apps, sharing of confidential material, or attempts to bypass content filters — is addressed under this policy.

Edit applied to v3 draft

09:54 PM · audit_event #4127 · triggered by M. Walsh comment

Recorded as audit-trail event

What Giraft does · 4 of 7

Passwordless Board approval.

Board members vote by magic link — no logins, no apps to install, no helpdesk tickets. Each link is personal, single-use, time-bound. Quorum reached, you seal the policy with one click.

Giraft

Response required · Expires Friday 2 May 2026
CBS
CBS Midleton

Board approval requested

Dear Chair, please review the full policy and record your vote before the link expires.

Policy

Code of Behaviour

Version 4

Single-use magic link · no password

CBS

Code of Behaviour

v4 · awaiting your vote

§1 · Purpose

This Code of Behaviour sets the standards of behaviour expected of every member of the school community, in line with the Education (Welfare) Act 2000.

§3 · Reporting Procedures

All concerns are recorded in writing. The Designated Liaison Person is named in §1 and acts as the school’s point of contact under Children First Act 2015.

Reviewed: 7 staff comments addressed, 3 edits applied. Sealed draft ready for the Board.

Vote recorded — Approve

The principal can now seal this version once quorum is reached.

Board quorum · 5 of 5

You · A. Murphy · M. Walsh · T. Quinn · K. Doyle

What Giraft does · 5 of 7

Cryptographic seal. Full audit trail.

A policy your board approves in Giraft carries its history: who voted, what they said, every edit applied and the comment that prompted it. The approved words and the votes are sealed with a SHA-256 fingerprint that anyone can check outside Giraft. When an inspector asks how a policy came to be, you hand them the record.

Code of Behaviour

Approved

CBS Midleton · Version 4 · Sealed 1 May 2026

1 May 2026 · 14:22
Sealed policy · A. Murphy (Chair)
✓ sealed
1 May 2026 · 11:08
Voted Approve · J. O'Connor (Deputy)
30 Apr 2026 · 18:14
Voted Approve · M. Walsh (Member)
29 Apr 2026 · 09:31
Accepted edit on §5 Online Safeguarding · Principal

Triggered by comment from M. Walsh (parent)

seal · sha256:9f4c2b7e…3d8a01Anyone can check it outside Giraft

What Giraft does · 6 of 7

Staff read it. Giraft records it.

Once a policy is published, you send it to your staff with one click. Every teacher, SNA and admin gets a personal link — no accounts, no apps. They read, type their name and acknowledge it. You watch the tracker fill in real time, and download a compliance audit pack the day the inspector asks for it.

Bí Cineálta Policy

Staff acknowledgement round

Open

0 / 3

Staff signed

0 viewed · 0% complete

  • MO

    Mary O'Brien

    Principal

    Invited
  • TW

    Tom Walsh

    Teacher

    Invited
  • ÁM

    Áine Murphy

    SNA

    Invited

What Giraft does · 7 of 7

A public portal you can put on a letterhead.

Every approved policy lives at one branded URL with your school crest, ready for the next inspection or admissions enquiry. When a parent asks 'where's your acceptable use policy?' — you send a link.

CBS Midleton crest

CBS Midleton · Policies

giraft.ai/s/cbsmidleton

public · indexed

CBS Midleton recognises the paramount importance of safeguarding children. The DLP is named in §1 and reachable through the procedures in §3.

Children First Act 2015Child Protection Procedures 2023
sealed · A. Murphy (Chair) · 12 Apr 2026Open full policy →

Bullying behaviour is identified, recorded, and addressed in line with Cineáltas principles. Reporting routes are set out for students, staff, and parents.

Cineáltas Action Plan 2023Education (Welfare) Act 2000
sealed · A. Murphy (Chair) · 4 Apr 2026Open full policy →

Standards of behaviour expected of every member of the school community, with a graduated response set out under §4.

Education (Welfare) Act 2000
sealed · A. Murphy (Chair) · 11 Feb 2026Open full policy →

Personal data is processed lawfully, fairly, and transparently. The school's data protection contact is named in §2, with retention periods set out in the schedule.

Data Protection Act 2018GDPR Articles 5, 13, 17
sealed · A. Murphy (Chair) · 28 Jan 2026Open full policy →
Click any row to preview · all four publicly accessible without login

Side by side

What changes for you.

You scribble through 14 PDFs of staff feedback.
You can't remember whether v2 was approved before or after the parent submission.
You bring an existing Word doc into the school and it sits in a folder.
At inspection, you scramble for sealed versions, board minutes, version history.

See it with your own policies.

We’ll walk you through Giraft with your school’s own policies, and show you the record it keeps for your board.

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Common questions

Ask Giraft anything.

The same way reviewers and Board members talk to your policies inside Giraft — type a question, get a grounded answer with citations.

Try

A

Giraft · answer

About an afternoon. Locked DEY-mandated policies (Child Safeguarding Statement, Admissions, CCTV) interpolate your school details into the statutory template — minutes. Generated policies (Data Protection, Health & Safety) take 30–90 seconds for Giraft to draft, then run through review, Board approval, and seal at your pace.

CitesBí Cineálta Procedures (2024)Lifecycle · 5 stages
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Giraft · answer

Yes. Send them as Word documents. Each one joins the same review, comment, approval and acknowledgement record as a policy written in Giraft. You don't have to start over.

CitesBring-your-own upload
A

Giraft · answer

No accounts, no apps, no helpdesk tickets. Board members get a magic-link email — single-use, time-bound, personal to them. They click, read the policy, vote Approve or Reject. The vote is recorded against your audit trail and counts toward the quorum your board sets.

CitesMagic-link authYour quorum
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Giraft · answer

Your policies and records are stored in Ireland and encrypted at rest. Each school's data is kept apart, so no one from another school can see your policies. Giraft is your processor under GDPR and your school remains the controller. Every provider that handles your data is named in our Data Processing Agreement, published at giraft.ai/legal/dpa.

CitesGDPR Articles 5, 28, 32Data Protection Act 2018
A

Giraft · answer

Three ways to start a policy. National templates are DEY-mandated structures (e.g. Child Safeguarding Statement) you can't deviate from — Giraft fills your school details in. Giraft templates are our curated catalogue, drafted from Irish education law and refined with school feedback. Your own is anything you upload. All three feed into the same review, approval, audit, and re-seal pipeline.

CitesThree starting points
A

Giraft · answer

Yes. Send a circulation round to anyone — staff, parents, board members — and every comment lands in one panel beside the policy text. Giraft suggests a reply or an edit for each comment, you decide which to accept, and every action is recorded against the comment that triggered it.

CitesCirculation rounds

Different question? Email hello@giraft.ai — usually back same day.