What does the provider need to do to improve further?
- Leaders should ensure that adult learners from all curriculum areas attend their courses at high rates.
- Leaders should gather data on all learners’ and apprentices’ destinations after they finish their courses to help them inform future curriculum changes.
- Leaders should ensure that all tutors set learners specific targets to help learners develop the weakest areas of their knowledge.
What does the provider need to do to improve further?
- Enhance the use of available management information by managers to set precise targets to:
- consolidate the effectiveness of the career guidance and advice team by offering excellent service to all those who need it
- secure rapid improvements to the management of the apprenticeship provision.
- Consolidate the significant improvements in teaching and learning to the highest possible standards by:
- ensuring that all tutors raise the standards of teaching by sharing good practice within the service, particularly in apprenticeships and English.
What does DALS need to do to improve further
- Further improve information, advice and guidance to learners by making it available on site in the service’s own centres.
- Ensure that observers focus on learning and the recording of learners’ attainment in their observations.
- Meet the learning needs of all learners through better lesson planning and involving them in the delivery of lessons through more interactive activities.
Key areas for improvement
- Better individual planning and recording of learners’ progress
- Development of the quality improvement process
- The complexity of management information systems
- The focus on equality and diversity at service level
- Monitoring and communication of action plans to stakeholders
- The focus of staff training
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Key challenges for Derby LEA
- improve curriculum management across the provision
- consolidate quality assurance arrangements
- use data to monitor and improve performance
- ensure all accommodation is at least satisfactory
- improve initial assessment
- promote equality of opportunity
- implement the literacy and numeracy strategy
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