Verdict
Almost certainly not, on the programme’s own terms. DfE’s guidance for partner schools addresses the school, and everywhere it names actual people it names senior leaders — it even costs the commitment in days of leadership time. The single point where ordinary staff appear is as respondents to a survey about behaviour. If more than that is being asked of you, that is your school’s decision about how to run its side of the programme, not something the programme requires.
What the source actually says
The commitment is costed in leadership time, twice, once for each pathway:
“Senior leaders from the partner school will need to: attend one open day per term participate in 6 two-hour online CPD sessions, and complete the attendance and behaviour self-assessment to guide their engagement This will involve around 5 to 10 days of leadership time.”
— RISE attendance and behaviour hubs: guidance for partner schools, DfE, published 23 July 2026, “Time commitment — Regional support” DfE
“Senior leaders from the partner school will need to: be available and able to engage with their lead school across 10 days of support: 5 in term 1, 3 in term 2, 2 in term 3 complete the self-assessment host the lead school for a deep-dive visit develop and implement an improvement plan attend open days at the lead school This will involve around 10 to 20 days of leadership time.”
— ibid., “Time commitment — Enhanced support”
The one line in the guidance that reaches beyond the leadership team reaches staff as people who are asked, not as people who deliver:
“run perceptions of school behaviour surveys with pupils and staff to identify areas for improvement and focus”
— ibid., “What is expected of participants”, enhanced support pathway
What the school has to hand over is documents it already holds, and DfE supplies the rest itself:
“As a partner school receiving enhanced support you will need to share the following with your allocated lead school: a completed behaviour and attendance self-assessment relevant sections of your school improvement plan and attendance and behaviour improvement strategies results from your perceptions of behaviour survey for pupils and staff”
— ibid., “What we need from you”
Note what this card does not claim. The guidance is written for schools that are already “confirmed participants”, so it says nothing about whether joining is a choice — that question cannot be answered from this document. It also contains no sentence disclaiming an inspection or judgement role, so this card does not say the hub does not judge your school. What it does say is that DfE separately supplies the lead school with “your most recent Ofsted report” and “published exclusions data”, which is worth knowing.
Your school may still require it
Your school can absolutely require you to contribute — to complete the behaviour survey, to change a routine the action plan commits to, to attend training, or to gather evidence for the self-assessment. Those are lawful directions. They are your school’s choices about how to deliver the programme, though, and the guidance itself does not put any of them on you.
See also Does my school have to have a behaviour policy? and Can I be required to do things that aren't teaching?.