Closed 2007 DfE URN 101677 Tables Ages 11–18 Ceased operations August 2007 | Religion Roman Catholic Ofsted Reports Phone +44 20 8777 8383 Gender Mixed-sex education | |
Location Layhams Road
West Wickham
London
BR4 9HN
England Address Layhams Rd, West Wickham BR4 9HN, UK Similar Hayes School, Glebe School, St David's College, Oak Lodge Primary School, Wickham Court School | ||
All Saints Catholic School was a Catholic secondary school located on Layhams Road, West Wickham, London Borough of Bromley. Formerly known as 'St. John Rigby Catholic College', its name was changed in 2004 as a rebranding because of falling pupil numbers and substantial debts following the departure of former headmistress Colleen McCabe.
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Fraud and closure
Colleen McCabe was convicted in 2003 of stealing around £500,000 from her school over a period from 1994 to 1999, which she spent lavishly both on herself and on gifts for her friends. The story was the subject of the 2006 BBC docudrama, The Thieving Headmistress Money was diverted away from the school's budget resulting in the children being without books in a dirty, unheated school. The fraud was only detected when the school's grant maintained status was reverted and control was returned to the local education authority. McCabe was sentenced to five years in prison.
After a consultation period, in April 2006 Bromley Council approved the proposal to close the school with effect from August 2007.