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 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

 

 

 

 

Equality Objectives 2024-2025

1. To involve families in cultural celebration events that represent a broad range of cultures through sharing our learning. 

2.  To achieve the Gold Award for the "An Equal and Diverse Society" Badge as part of the Lancashire Learning4Life Award.  

3. To meet the social and emotional needs of pupils at Astley Park School through Thrive approaches and practices.  

 

Annual Equality Information 2024-25 

 

Pupils on Roll 

164 

Male  

112 

Female  

52 

Special Educational Needs  

164 

Free School Meals  

39 

English as Additional Language  

Ethnicity  

Chinese 

White Irish 

Other Black Background 

Other Asian Background 

Asian British 

Black African 

Other Mixed Background 

Pakistani 

White and Black Caribbean 

Indian 

Other White Background 

White British 

131 

Religion 

 

Christian  

30 

Hindu  

Mormon  

Lutheran 

Methodist 

Muslim  

Church of England  

36 

No Religion  

54 

Roman Catholic  

24 

Non-Disclosed  

54 

Looked After Children 

 

PLAA 

 

 

Single Equalities Policy

British Values