Community Learning in Partnership Inspection Recommendations

Community Learning in Partnership

Improve learners’ progress and attainment particularly in mathematics by:
- setting, recording and reviewing productive targets that are hard enough
- providing all relevant tutors with training to enable them, where appropriate, to include the teaching of mathematics in vocational lessons
- developing learners’ everyday arithmetic skills further to help them understand personal money matters
- setting more complex tasks for more able learners particularly for intermediate level learners.
Rapidly improve attendance by:
- putting in place thorough arrangements to follow up diligently learners who miss lessons
- setting individual challenging but realistic incremental improvement targets to eliminate unauthorised absence
- ensuring absent learners are not at risk during the periods when they are expected to be in lessons
- ensuring that the initiatives to improve attendance and reduce persistent absence focus closely on those learners who are at a risk of homelessness.
Consolidate the recent improvements and strengthen strategic leadership by:
- requiring the non-executive directors to set the highest expectations of the senior manager, and rigorously managing their performance to consistently raise learner’s achievement
- strengthening arrangements to share good practice
- replicating identified outstanding features from each centre across the provision, and
- enhancing the self-assessment report further.

Further improve the quality of teaching, learning and assessment through more effective session planning that includes a wide variety of engaging and challenging activities, linked to detailed feedback that learners can use to improve their progress and achieve high standards.
Improve the effectiveness of leaders and managers by focusing their efforts on significantly increasing the pace of quality improvement activities. Ensure that managers routinely set and meet ambitious short-term targets to aid improvement performance monitoring.
Enhance the timeliness and effectiveness of decision making through the robust use of data to identify trends and for comparative purposes.
Raise the overall progression rate, and the rate learners enter work and apprenticeship training through the greater use of work placements.
Raise all pass rates, particularly level 1 progression and entry-level mathematics programmes by using more stimulating and engaging class sessions that are relevant to learners’ experiences.
Raise significantly learners’ attendance and punctuality rates through a greater emphasis on its importance for sustained employment and better monitoring and remedial action to address identified shortfalls.