Future Horizons Leeds Ltd

Overview

Future Horizons Leeds Ltd is an independent specialist college for learners with high needs, delivering education at a "strong standard" across inclusion, leadership, and provision. The report highlights a "highly personalised, flexible and ambitious curriculum" that enables learners to make "extensive progress" towards independence and adult life.

Strengths

• Leaders demonstrate a "clear and considered approach to inclusion," ensuring learners with diverse barriers participate fully and make appropriate progress.
• Staff provide "highly effective support," using tailored strategies like choice cards and intensive interaction to help learners communicate and regulate emotions.
• The curriculum is carefully sequenced to build skills in self-care, safety, and employability, resulting in learners developing "dignity, independence and preparation for navigating adult life successfully."
• Governance is "highly effective," with trustees providing "very effective scrutiny and challenge" and leaders fostering a supportive culture for staff wellbeing.
• Learners are described as "happy, safe and well supported," benefiting from strong relationships with staff who know them "exceptionally well."

Areas to improve

• Leaders should ensure that support staff assist learners effectively to maintain their focus when completing tasks set by teachers, as this is not always done well enough in "a very few instances."

Safeguarding

The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders establishing an "open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility" and concerns actively identified and managed.