The Collett School Accessibility Plan. Review Jan 2025

St Luke's School Accessibility Plan. Review Jan 2025

Accessibility statement for The Blue Tangerine Website

This website is run by e4education. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:

• change colours, contrast levels and fonts.
• zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen.
• navigate most of the website using just a keyboard.
• navigate most of the website using speech recognition software.
• listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver).

We’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand.

We know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:

• the text will not reflow in a single column when you change the size of the browser window.
• you cannot modify the line height or spacing of text.
• live video streams do not have captions.
• some of our online forms are difficult to navigate using just a keyboard.
• you cannot skip to the main content when using a screen reader.
• there’s a limit to how far you can magnify the map on our ‘contact us’ page.

Enforcement procedure

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 (the ‘accessibility regulations’). If you’re not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).

Contacting us by phone or visiting us in person

We provide a text relay service for people who are deaf, hearing impaired or have a speech impediment.

Our school halls have audio induction loops.

Technical information about this website’s accessibility

The Blue Tangerine Federation of Specialist and Special Educational Needs Schools is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.

This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due to the non-compliances listed below.

Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations

Some images do not have a text alternative, so people using a screen reader cannot access the information. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.1.1 (non-text content).

We plan to add text alternatives for all images by September 2022. When we publish new content we’ll make sure our use of images meets accessibility standards.

Disproportionate burden

• accessibility problems may be a disproportionate burden to fix

Navigation and accessing information

There’s no way to skip the repeated content in the page header (for example, a ‘skip to main content’ option). This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 2.4.1 (bypass blocks).

It’s not always possible to change the device orientation from horizontal to vertical without making it more difficult to view the content. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.3.4 (orientation).

It’s not possible for users to change text size without some content overlapping. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.4.4 (resize text).

Content that’s not within the scope of the accessibility regulations

PDFs and other documents

Some of our PDFs and Word documents are essential to providing our services. For example, we have PDFs with information on how users can access our services, and forms published as Word documents.  January 2022; we have either fixed these or replaced them with accessible HTML pages.

Neither of our schools are our own admissions authority though both are foundation schools.  This is due to the strict admissions of the local authority regarding the complexity of needs of the pupils.

Our Special Education Schools' Admissions are managed by Hertfordshire Local Authority.  

Admissions Policies: See our Policies Page

Behaviour Policies: See our Policies Page

Collett Careers Information: Link

St Luke's Careers Information: Link 

Charging and Remissions Policy: See our Policies Page

Complaints Policy: See our Policies Page

Stephen Hoult-Allen, Executive Headteacher:

Executivehead@bluetangerine.herts.sch.uk

The Blue Tangerine Federation's Official Address:

St Luke's School, Crouch Hall Lane, Redbourn, Herts AL3 7ET

Key Blue Tangerine Federation Staff

The following staff work across two or more of our schools:

• Executive Headteacher: Mr Stephen Hoult-Allen BEd(Cantab) BAHons PGCE NPQH (executivehead@bluetangerine.herts.sch.uk)
• Head of Operations: Mrs Manda Sides (operations@bluetangerine.herts.sch.uk)
• HR Officer: Miss Donna Abel (hr@bluetangerine.herts.sch.uk)
• Bursar: Ms Rachael Lampey-Williams (bursar@stlukes.herts.sch.uk / rachel.lampey@collett.herts.sch.uk)
• Designated Senior Lead Safeguarding (DSL): Mr Phil MacBeth-Seath (dsl@bluetangerine.herts.sch.uk)
• Chair of Governors: Mr Ian Dignum (chair@bluetangerine.herts.sch.uk)

The Collett School Curriculum

St Luke's School Curriculum

Our Federation's Vision and Values

Our vision is a world where people with learning disabilities and mental health thrive.

Our mission is to promote the 'Abilities in Disability' within our immediate, local and wider communities in order that our vision is realised.

Our Schools' Values

• We look after ourselves
• We look after each other
• We look after our environment
• We look after our learning

School's Financial Benchmarking Service

The Collett School

St Luke's School

The Blue Tangerine Federation Governors

The Blue Tangerine Charity Trustees

Friends of The Collett School Trustees

Friends of St Luke's (Redbourn) Trustees

The Collett School

St Luke's School
 

Schools with fewer than 250 employees are not required to comply with the regulations.

We do however, give serious consideration to the business benefits of analysis of our gender and pay.

The Collett School Sports Premium

St Luke's School Sports Premium
 

How we comply with the Public Sector Equality Duty

Our Equality Objectives

The Collett School Pupil Premium Grant

St Luke's School Pupil Premium Grant

The Collett School

St Luke's School

The Collett School - Pupils' School Day

• Arrival 8.25 - 8.30am
• Registration: 8.30-8.45am
• Break: 15 mins 10.15-10.25am
• Tier One Group Lunch: 45 mins 11.45 - 12.30pm
• Tier Two Group Lunch: 45 mins 12.00-12.45pm
• Transport: 2.20pm-2.30pm 

St Luke's School - Pupils' School Day

• Arrival and Registration: 8.45am-9am
• Break: 15 mins 10.45-11am
• Lower School Lunch: 30 mins 12.00 - 12.30pm
• Middle and Upper School Lunch: 45 mins 12.30-1.15pm
• Transport: 2.45pm-3pm 

The Collett School

St Luke's School

The Collett School

St Luke's School

The Collett School

St Luke's School