Islamic Tarbiyyah Preparatory School

Islamic Tarbiyyah Preparatory School, 6 May 2026 1 Islamic Tarbiyyah Preparatory School Ambler Street, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD8 8AW

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Overall outcome The school meets all of the independent school standards that were checked during this inspection

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This inspection was commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE), which is the registration authority for independent schools. It was commissioned because of concerns raised with the DfE about safeguarding at the school.

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Part 8. Quality of leadership in and management of schools

When we carry out emergency inspections of independent schools, we report on the school’s likely compliance with part 8 of the independent school standards first. Under part 8, the proprietor is required to ensure that the school meets all of the independent school standards consistently. The standard in part 8 is intended to ensure that the quality of leadership and management at the school is sufficient for that purpose.

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Part 8. Quality of leadership in and management of schools

The proprietor works closely with school leaders and those responsible for governance. It helps them to ensure that the independent school standards (the standards) are consistently met.

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Part 8. Quality of leadership in and management of schools

Leaders, including the proprietor, are clear on the ways in which the school keeps pupils safe. They make regular, informed checks to ensure that their expectations are put into practice. This includes checking that policies are followed and pupils feel safe. The proprietor understands their responsibilities with regard to the health and safety of the school building, pupils and staff. As with safeguarding, the proprietor makes the necessary checks to ensure that health and safety policies are enacted well. Collectively, this provides assurances that pupils are safe in this school. Islamic Tarbiyyah Preparatory School, 6 May 2026 2 The proprietor has further developed assurances in the school’s work through the engagement of external advisers, who carry out additional checks. The feedback that the advisers provide to governors, alongside the oversight of the proprietor, ensures leaders are held to account in a timely way. This provides increased rigour

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Part 8. Quality of leadership in and management of schools

to the strategic accountability of the school.

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Part 8. Quality of leadership in and management of schools

The standards in this part continue to be met.

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Safeguarding

The school has maintained its focus on safeguarding since the previous standard inspection in October 2025. There is a clear culture of safeguarding in the school. This is seen through the actions of the proprietor, leaders and school staff. Each adult knows the importance of their role in keeping pupils safe.

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Safeguarding

The school’s policies and expectations for safeguarding are clear. The school’s safeguarding and child protection policy is published on the school’s website. Leaders, along with the proprietor, ensure that safeguarding training is relevant and up to date. For example, leaders have prioritised updates around recent changes to statutory documents. This is over and above annual and induction training, which is carefully planned to cover aspects of safeguarding such as the ‘Prevent’ duty. Both the proprietor and leaders ensure that staff understand and recall relevant safeguarding information. They make timely checks on staff’s understanding through weekly briefings. Staff understand how to identify any changes that might indicate a safeguarding concern and how to report them. They articulate clearly how to raise concerns about adults who work with children.

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Safeguarding

Leaders ensure that they deal with any concerns promptly. Record-keeping is clear and sufficiently detailed. This ensures that pupils’ voices are heard and that they are supported appropriately. Leaders with responsibility for safeguarding know where to make relevant referrals to the local authority.

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Safeguarding

The culture of safeguarding is evident in the actions of adults during the school day. Staff consider and implement careful supervision for pupils as they move between the school’s 2 sites. At the end of the day, thorough and well-organised handover procedures help keep pupils safe. Leaders ensure that they and staff understand and implement aspects of the early years welfare requirements. Together, this helps pupils to feel safe during the school day.

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Safeguarding

Pupils feel safe. They enjoy coming to school. They know who the key adults are in school, such as the designated safeguarding leads, and how they keep them Islamic Tarbiyyah Preparatory School, 6 May 2026 3 safe. The curriculum helps pupils to make safe choices. Pupils understand clearly about staying safe online. Pupils meet important professionals such as the police, who provide guidance on safe behaviour in the community.

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Health and safety

At the time of the school’s most recent standard inspection in October 2025, this standard was met. Leaders, including the proprietor, continue to have appropriate oversight of health and safety in the school and for its pupils. The health and safety policy is clear and is fully reflected in leaders’ and staff’s responsibilities and actions. The proprietor, with leaders, ensures appropriate health and safety checks are made on the premises. These include daily checks as well as regular scheduled checks, such as those linked to water safety including legionella. The building is secure, and appropriate supervision is in place as pupils move around the school and its 2 sites. Staff understand their role in relation to health and safety. They are suitably trained. This enables them, with leaders, to keep pupils safe and promote their welfare.

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Risk assessment

The school’s risk assessment policy is appropriate and reviewed regularly. It provides all adults in the school with the guidance needed to ensure that risk assessments are considered in sufficient detail. Leaders ensure that individual risk assessments are written for specific spaces and activities in the school. Leaders review the risk assessments and ensure that appropriate actions are taken to reduce and mitigate risk effectively.

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Risk assessment

Staff have relevant knowledge and understanding around risk assessments. They are clear about the role they take in managing risk and contribute to written school risk assessments where appropriate.

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Risk assessment

The standards in this part continue to be met.

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The school’s accessibility plan

The school has an appropriate accessibility plan that meets the requirements of schedule 10 of the Equality Act 2010.

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About this inspection

Inspectors carried out this inspection under sections 109(1) and (2) of the Education and Skills Act 2008, at the request of the registration authority for independent schools. Inspectors checked the school’s compliance with the Islamic Tarbiyyah Preparatory School, 6 May 2026 4 independent school standards. These are the requirements set out in the schedule to the Education (Independent School Standards) Regulations 2014.

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About this inspection

Following our renewed inspection framework, all inspections are now led by His Majesty’s Inspectors (HMIs) or by Ofsted Inspectors (OIs) who have previously served as HMIs.

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About this inspection

The purpose of the inspection was to ensure the school continued to meet the relevant independent school standards linked to safeguarding and health and safety. The inspection was conducted without notice.

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About this inspection

The inspectors spoke with the executive headteacher, other school leaders, the chair of the proprietor body and the chair of the board of governors. The inspectors also spoke with pupils and staff. The inspectors also liaised with a representative from the local authority.

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About this inspection

The inspectors confirmed the following information about the school:

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About this inspection

The school is an Islamic faith primary school for boys and girls.

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About this inspection

The school is registered to admit children from 3 years old. At the time of this inspection, there were no nursery-age children on roll. At the time of the previous standard inspection in October 2025, there were no children on roll in the early years foundation stage. The school currently has a Reception-age cohort.

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About this inspection

The school does not currently use any alternative provision.

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About this inspection

The school operates from sites at the same address. The second site is above a car garage at 1a Ambler Street, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD8 8AW.

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About this inspection

The school is registered to admit 225 pupils.

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Team inspector

Lynda Florence Ofsted Inspector Islamic Tarbiyyah Preparatory School, 6 May 2026 5

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About this school

Chair of the proprietor body Shakil Nawaz

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