An ISI(Independent Schools Inspectorate) report, published earlier this week, finds Marlborough College does not meet all of the required Independent School Standards – a series of standards for private schools set by the Department for Education. The report states the school should ‘take immediate action to remedy deficiencies’.
The report follows an inspection in November 2021 when a team of seven inspectors visited the school. Inspection findings do not cover the period between March to August 2020 when the school was shut due to the Covid pandemic.
While standards relating to the quality of education, premises and accommodation, provision of information, handling of complaints, spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of pupils are met, inspectors were concerned that not all safe-guarding standards were met.
The report states: “The school’s procedures for safer recruitment, including systems for record keeping and accurate recording of data within the single central register are not sufficiently robust to support the welfare of pupils fully. The school had significant difficulty evidencing the required checks.”
The action points given to Marlborough College include the following: ‘The school must ensure that all required recruitment checks are carried out before a person commences work at the school. This includes barred list checks; checks against the lists of those prohibited from teaching in schools and against the lists of those prohibited from management of schools; and receipt of satisfactory references.
The school must ensure that when a person is allowed to start work in a regulated activity a DBS certificate has been seen.”
To read the full report click here.
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