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Inclusion Quality Mark

IQM Centre of Excellence Award

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Becoming a Centre of Excellence is an opportunity for schools to build on the success of being one of the very special schools which holds the Inclusion Quality Mark award. A Centre of Excellence brings schools together to share and build on their existing good practice in inclusion best practice.

“Around 240 schools in the UK have met the standard required to become an IQM Centre of Excellence for outstanding levels of inclusion best practice. Are you ready to join them?”

Centre of Excellence Criteria

Centres of excellence determine for themselves who will be involved and the direction in which they choose to make progress. There is no upper limit to the number of schools in a cluster group, so this can fit with existing cluster arrangements and local geographical proximity or it can allow schools to twin over distance with the specific aim of making further progress in this very important area of school life.

 

Criteria for Centre Excellence

  • Committed to sustaining the Inclusion Quality Mark ethos through collaborative activities.
  • Have demonstrable plans to sustain and develop internal inclusive practice.
  • Have good mechanisms to disseminate and share good practice between the schools.
  • Have, or are able to develop, the capacity to share and disseminate good inclusive practice across a broader cluster of schools.
  • Are willing to engage in classroom level research activity that explores inclusive practice.
  • Agree to have an annual IQM visit to ratify or validate the progress and develop an annual plan for development.
  • Agree to contribute an annual written update of progress against the eight elements as the basis for the annual review.
  • Are prepared to contribute to the overall development aims of IQM, supporting the need for expertise or trialling practice.

Annual Costs

School with
1 – 400 Students

Years 1, 2 & 3
£975/yr

School with
401 – 2,000 Students

Years 1, 2 & 3
£1075/yr
*Please note the following:
All prices are subject to change.
Review costs do not include expenses and VAT.
Year 3 review incorporates IQM re-accreditation.

IQM Centre of Excellence Schools

The schools marked on the map below have achieved the IQM Centre of Excellence Award.

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IQM | COVID -19 Update

As a result of the ongoing pandemic and the impact it is having in schools we are responding to this challenge by offering our services online where possible whilst still enabling schools to work with us in furthering their inclusion journey.

Annual Reviews

Taking into account the amount of effort and commitment from colleagues in schools in preparing for Centre of Excellence and Flagship reviews, we are carrying these out online for the foreseeable future. If, however, a school would prefer a visit, we will check if the assessor is happy to do that and confirm either way. If, however, we are not able to find an assessor who can visit the school, we will have to move to an online format. The protection of our assessors and colleagues in schools is of utmost importance to us.

Cluster Meetings

Please note that all of our cluster group meetings are being held online during the autumn term. Some have taken place in the first half of this term whilst others are being held between Halloween and Christmas. Invitations to the meetings will be sent out electronically from the Ambassador responsible for each group.

Assessments

All one day assessments will be carried out online until further notice. We would strongly recommend that you continue to submit your paperwork as normal. Feedback will be provided as normal.

Two day assessments are being treated differently – see below

Day 1 – Will be conducted online via Zoom or MS Teams and telephone calls.
Day 2 – A visit by the assessor to the school or a second day of online meetings will be agreed with the school. We reserved the right to move the second day to an online format if necessary.

Registered Schools

If your school has registered to do the Award but is not at the assessment stage and you are working your way through our Self Evaluation Report document, please feel free to submit one or two elements at a time for feedback to elements@iqmaward.com and members of our team will continue to feedback as normal.

Interested in Inclusive School Award

Finally, if you haven’t begun the process yet but would like more information on the Award, please contact us at info@iqmaward.com or download a free information pack from our website www.iqmaward.com.

The IQM Team