“5E is skilled at making the best use of the funding available and its links with other providers to offer a comprehensive range of training options”5E is an outstanding provider. Achievements and standards, leadership and management and the extent to which courses meet the needs and interests of learners are all outstanding. Teaching and learning, and support for learners, are good. The arrangements for equality of opportunity are outstanding. 5E’s provision in employability training is outstanding and in health and social care it is good.
Key observations
- Outstanding achievements for learners
- Outstanding development of learners’ vocational and employability skills
- Good teaching and learning
- Outstanding strategic management
- Highly effective communication
- Particularly good staff development
- Prompt and effective actions for continuous improvement
- Excellent strategies to engage disadvantaged and socially excluded groups
- Very good promotion of equality and diversityû Weak use of individual learning plans
- Insufficient focus on annual self-assessment for quality improvement
- Insufficient collection and use of data to monitor the Train to Gain programme
Achievement and standards
- Overall achievement and standards are outstanding
- Train to Gain learners develop excellent workplace skills and greatly improve their working practices
- 5E’s self-assessment report includes accurate judgements about achievement and standards
- No significant differences exist between the achievements of learners from different ethnic groups or between men and women
Quality of Provision
- The quality of provision is good. Overall teaching and learning are good.The monitoring of learners’ progress is very good
- Assessment is satisfactory
- The extent to which programmes meet the needs and interests of learners and employers is outstanding
- Support and guidance for learners are good. Initial advice and guidance is effective and the wide range of
- Languages spoken by staff is used well to meet the needs of learners who do not speak English
Leadership and Management
- Leadership and management are outstanding
- Communications throughout 5E are highly effective
- Staff development and training are excellent
- Actions for quality improvement are prompt and effective
- The procedures for safeguarding learners meet current government requirements
- Overall, the management information system is very good and data is used very effectively to identify trends and promote improvements
- 5E carries out self-assessment carefully and places great emphasis on involving all staff and learners in the process
- The promotion of equality and diversity is outstanding
- Gender, age and ethnicity data is analysed frequently for learners on the programme to monitor trends
- 5E has used very successful strategies to engage disadvantaged and socially excluded groups
Key Statistics
- 60 per cent of learners with severe barriers to employment have gained sustainable jobs after attending employability training courses with 5E
- For Train to Gain learners on skills for life programmes the success rate in 2007/08 was 100 per cent
- In 2007/08, 85 per cent of learners gained ESOL qualifications
- Overall success rates are high at 85 per cent for 2007/08
- Attendance on the courses is excellent at 98 per cent
