Astley Park School

Equality Statement and Objectives

 

Astley Park School 

Equality Statement and Objectives 

  

 

Equality Statement 

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 Miss Michelle Miller, Miss Emma Down, Miss Rachael Cross, Miss Lauren Hendy, Mrs Denise Williams, Miss Eloise Stack, Mrs Angela Worthington 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 reaccreditation for the LCC Equality Mark. 

 

Equality Objectives 2025-2026 

1. To develop and implement a Community Cohesion Policy.  

2.  To investigate good practice of local inclusive places of worship. 

3. To better understand how to maximise engagement of all families at school events using a variety of forums with targeted groups. 

 

Annual Equality Information 2025-26 

  

Pupils on Roll  

161 

Male   

110 

Female   

 51 

Special Educational Needs   

161  

Free School Meals   

60 

English as Additional Language   

6 

Ethnicity   

Chinese  

0 

White Irish  

1 

Other Black Background  

10 

Other Asian Background  

2 

Asian British  

2 

Black African  

2 

Other Mixed Background  

3 

Pakistani  

3 

White and Black Caribbean  

3 

Indian  

4 

Other White Background  

1 

White British  

130 

Religion  

  

Christian   

21 

Hindu   

2 

Mormon   

1  

Lutheran  

1  

Methodist  

1  

Muslim   

8  

Church of England   

33  

No Religion   

60  

Roman Catholic   

24  

Non-Disclosed   

6  

Looked After Children  

  

5 

PLAA  

1 

  

Single Equalities Policy

British Values