“Everything changed when I came to 5E, my confidence is back”
– Learner quoted in report
– Learner quoted in report
The overall effectiveness of the provision is good. Achievement and standards are satisfactory. The quality of provision is good. Leadership and management, and equality of opportunity are outstanding. Overall provision in preparation for life and work is good. Teaching and learning are also good, as is the extent to which the programme meets participants’ needs. Guidance and support for participants is outstanding.
Key observations
- Particularly effective use of classroom observations
- Very good development of personal and social skills
- Very good achievement of job related qualifications
- Outstanding development of jobsearch skills
- Very good use of resources
- Outstanding support for participants
- Very good operational and strategic management
- Highly effective communications
- Particularly good use of management information systems
- Excellent development and training for staff
- Very effective management of resources
- Outstanding promotion of equality and diversity
- Very effective actions for continuous improvement
- Insufficient follow-up of potential participantsû Insufficient job outcomes
- Insufficient use of assessment information to plan and monitor progress
Achievement and standards
- Very effective actions for continuous improvement
- Development of participants’ personal and social skills is very good
- Achievements of job-related qualifications are very good
- Participants develop effective skills in filtering and selecting employment opportunities that are suitable for their aspirations, prior experience and potential
- Most participants’ attendance is satisfactory
- Retention is satisfactory at 80 per cent
- Job outcomes vary considerably between each of the centres and the overall rate for the programme centre provision is only 41 per cent compared with the programme target of 70 per cent
Quality of Provision
- Jobsearch skills development is outstanding
- Support for participants is outstanding in helping them overcome barriers to employment
- Good use is made of the wide range of resources and materials available to meet participants’ individual needs
- Delivery of information days and induction is satisfactory
- Assessment is satisfactory. Fortnightly progress reviews are thorough and provide an effective opportunity to review participants’ progress and to identify further developments and support needs. However, the scoring system used to record this information is not sufficiently detailed to plan and measure progress
Leadership and Management
- Operational and strategic management of the programme is very good
- Communications throughout 5E are highly effective
- Management information is particularly good and used very effectively to identify trends and promote improvements
- Staff development and training are excellent
- Resources are managed very effectively and their use demonstrates value for money
- Policies are updated annually and effectively define the organisation’s response to legislation and employment rights
- The strategy for literacy, numeracy and language provision is satisfactory
- The promotion of equality and diversity is outstanding
- Equality of opportunity is promoted extremely well and is effectively established into all parts of the programme
- Gender, age and ethnicity data is frequently analysed for participants on the programme, to monitor trends and identify developments, however, no analysis is routinely made of those gaining work
- Complaints and grievances are few
Key Statistics
- At the Barnet centre, job outcomes are satisfactory at 63 per cent
- At the Edmonton centre job outcomes are low at 46 per cent
- At the Haringey centre, job outcomes are very low at 22 per cent
- The overall rate for the programme centre provision is only 41 per cent compared with the programme target of 70 per cent
