Progress Schools - Liverpool

Overview: The school is likely to meet the relevant independent school standards if the material changes relating to the school provision are implemented.

Strengths:

• The school has prepared an appropriate curriculum policy that promotes fundamental British values.
• The curriculum policy is supported by schemes of work for each subject, which are appropriate and consider the specific needs of pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).
• Pupils’ personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education is taught through timetabled lessons and woven into the whole school curriculum.
• The school provides opportunities for pupils to discuss local and national issues in an impartial way and encourages them to put into practice the values that are fundamental to living in modern Britain.
• The proprietor has a secure understanding of the standards and monitors compliance with the standards regularly.

Areas to improve: The report identifies no significant areas for improvement.

Safeguarding: The school has a suitable safeguarding policy in place, which is published on the school's website and has due regard to current statutory guidance. There are robust procedures in place for staff to report any concerns that they might have about a pupil's welfare, and staff receive regular safeguarding training.