RB-NW London – Registered charity number 1109947
Performance outcomes
Our programme is designed to reduce students’ social isolation, build their confidence and get them back on an academic track, raising their ambitions and interest in learning.
We support a very diverse group of you people, many of whom have been out of education for several months or years. When our students join us, they have missed extensive periods of schooling. Accordingly, their attainment levels are usually well below the national average for their age.
We also have a high proportion of students with special educational needs – in 2017/18, 81% of our students had special educational needs. It is therefore important to view performance not just in terms of academic attainment.
Our targets for our students
We continually monitor the quality of our provision. We aim to achieve the following outcomes:
- 80% of students improve attendance from 0% at their previous school to over 70% at Red Balloon after 12 months on the programme.
- 85% of students return or transition to appropriate mainstream or alternative education or further education, training or work.
- 90% of eligible students (Years 10 and 11) sit exams and obtain qualifications.
- 75% of students increase activities outside the home by 50% after 12 months on the programme (for RBAir students)
Inspections
RB-NW London was last inspected by Ofsted in 2012 and by the Independent Schools Report (ISI) in 2021, and re-inspected by the ISI in 2022. Ofsted found RB-NWL to be good in the categories of quality of education and pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development, and to be satisfactory in the category of welfare, health and safety of pupils.
You can see the full ISI reports here (2021), and here (2022), and Ofsted’s report here.
Annual reports
Red Balloon Learner Centre Group produces an annual report for the work undertaken across the Red Balloon federation of charities. Our most recent reports are available below.
Policies
Policies are reviewed annually by the Centre trustees. The Chair of Trustees signs a policy list (held in the Centre office) to indicate that this has been carried out. Names of ‘responsible staff’ (e.g. Examinations Officer) as required within policies are also available from the Centre office.
Number of official complaints received: 1