A controversial Christian school in Dover has closed after Ofsted inspectors ruled it was inadequate.

The report claims Dover School for All Nations (DSFAN) was inadequate in every category and lists the school as now being closed.

It states that improvements were needed in management and quality of teaching, and also that pupils were lacking a broad experience in all the required areas of learning.

Pupils behaviour was good and pupils said they felt safe, but the report reveals the school had failed to make all the required pre-employment checks on staff.

The achievement of pupils was also rated as inadequate, with the inspectors saying they were not taught the full range of required areas of learning in the main school.

“We are not a fundamentalist Christian school. We are just a regular Christian school.” - Mr Fleming.

As a result, pupils did not achieve as well as they should, particularly in the technological, human and social areas of learning.

The inspection took place in November last year, and the report became available in January 2015.

DSFAN came under attack from a national campaigner last year, who accused the curriculum of being fundamentalist.

The claims came from Jonny Scaramanga, who campaigns against Christian fundamentalism.

As an example of the kind of ideas that fundamentalism promotes, Mr Scaramanga said the school’s pupils would have been taught that wives should obey their husbands and submit to their authority.

The school on the former Club Dover site in Port Zone, Whitfield, opened in January 2014 as an independent private Christian school for children aged four to 18.

At the time, managing director Richard Fleming, denied the claims.

He said: “We are not a fundamentalist Christian school. We are just a regular Christian school.”

Mr Fleming said the school was “sailing through everything”, and he was “really pleased” with the children and parents.

DSFAN had not commented by the time the Mercury went to press.