Ofsted has given Ampleforth College a clean bill of health two years after the school was banned from accepting new admissions amid concerns over safeguarding standards.
A new report from the education watchdog has found that child protection at the North Yorkshire public school – sometimes referred to as the “Catholic Eton” – was now “much improved”.
The report guarantees a surer future for an institution which includes among its alumni actors Rupert Everett and James Norton and Julian Fellowes, the creator of Downton Abbey TV series, SAS founder Sir David Stirling and Cardinal Basil Hume.
