THE LANCASHIRE Telegraph today reveals the damning Ofsted report into Hameldon Community College.

We have obtained a copy of the inspector's report, which was not due to be made public until next week.

In it the inspector slams the leadership, quality of teaching and attitudes of pupils at the Byron Street school in Burnley.

The "super school", which only opened six months ago as part of the £250million Building Schools for the Future programme, has been put it into special measures in a bid to turn it around.

Inspectors will return in six months time to see if improvements set out in an action plan are being brought about.

In the report, the inspector identified four major things the school should do to improve:

* Raise levels of achievement
* Improve students' behaviour and attitudes to learning
* Increase the quality of teaching so more of it is good or better
* Improve the consistency of leadership and management

On 21 and 22 February, inspector Garry Jones, visited the school.

The school was judged on 26 factors and was awarded the lowest possible grade four - exceptionally low' - in 19 of them.

In the rest it was given a score of three - broadly average to below average.

It received no one or two grades - exceptionally and consistently high and generally above average with none significantly below average - respectively.

In other findings, the reports says that the school had failed to gain the confidence of a significant proportion of parents.

Students attitudes to learning were found to be unsatisfactory, and the development of social, moral, spiritual and cultural awareness was unsatisfactory.

Attendance was poor, and bad behaviour had lead very high levels of suspensions, the report found.

It also said that overall achievement of pupils was poor, which he blamed on the quality of teaching and the poor attitudes of pupils.

In a letter to pupils Mr Jones has urged pupils to do their part to improve the school.

Mr Jones wrote that the overall leadership and management of the school was inadequate.

But he states that the senior management team was hard working and committed but was over-optimistic in evaluating how it was dealing with failings.

A troubleshooter is now working with Miss Broome to draw up an action plan to try and address the failings.

The news over Hameldon's failure has prompted a row between bosses at county hall and Burnley Council over who was to blame.

Coun Marcus Johnstone, cabinet member for children and young people, hit out at the school's "extraordinarily weak leadership" and said if he had been leading the school he have would considered resigning.

But leader of Burnley Council, Coun Gordon Birtwistle, said the county council had "hung headteacher Gill Broome out to dry" and called for members of LCC to resign over their "sheer, rank incompetence".