Equality Statement

Astley Park School

Equality Statement and Objectives

Astley Park School seeks to provide Equality of Opportunity for all members for the school community whatever their disability, age, gender, race, nationality, religion, marital status, maternity, sexual orientation or background. We recognise that people have different needs and treating them equally does not always mean treating them the same. We recognise that some members of the school community will need additional support to enable them to fully access school services. We strive to challenge discrimination and prejudice of all levels in the school community. We are working towards reaccreditation of the LLC Equality Mark having successfully achieved all the 6 Equality badges, these being Race, Gender, Socio-Economic, Disability, Sexual Orientation and Religion and Belief.

Specific Duties

We have two Specific Duties under the 2010 Equality Act:

• To publish information to demonstrate our compliance with the general duty to promote equality.

• To prepare and publish one or more equality objectives.

We have therefore prepared this section of our school website to show what we do to promote equality of opportunity and highlight the equality objectives that we are working on this year. You can also review the linked documents below to see our progress towards our objectives in previous years.

Review Process

Mrs Lauren Hey is the Equality Working Party Lead and she is supported by Equality Champions Mrs Michelle Crouch, Miss Emma Down, Mrs Heather Hylands, Miss Rachael Cross and Miss Lauren Hendy and Nominated Governor for Equality Mr Mick Maher. The team have specific responsibility for equality issues within school and meet termly to plan events, discuss issues and solutions and report on progress towards our objectives. The Leadership Team and Governors at Astley Park School regularly review the progress we are making towards meeting our equality objectives via a report and via drop-ins in school. The Equality and Diversity Team from Lancashire County Council review our progress on a three-year cycle via the reaccrediation for the LCC Equality Mark.

ANNUAL EQUALITY INFORMATION 2024-25

Pupils on Role	164
Male	Primary	Secondary
Male
Female	Primary	Secondary
Female
Special Educational Needs	Specific Learning Difficulty
	Moderate Learning Difficulty
	Severe Learning Difficulty
	Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties
	Social, Emotional and Mental Health
	Speech, Language and Communication Needs
	Mutli-Sensory Impairment
	Hearing Impairment
	Vision Impairment
	Physical Disability
	Autistic Spectrum Disorder
	SEN support – No Specialist Assessment
	Other Difficulty/Disorder
Free School Meals	Primary	Secondary
Free School Meals
Pupils First Language	Arabic
	English
	Urdu
	Gujarati
	Polish
	Romanian
Ethnicity	Indian
	Pakistani
	White and Black Caribbean
	Black and White African
	Any Other Mixed Background
	Any other Asian Background
	Any Other White Background
	White British
	White and Black African
	Black African
	Non-Disclosed
Religion	Christian
	Hindu
	Mormon
	Muslim
	Church of England
	No Religion
	Other Religion
	Roman Catholic
	Refused
	Non-Disclosed
Children Looked After (CLA Children)
(PLAA)