Quality assuring specialist FE provision

Are you responsible for quality assurance in your college? Would it be helpful to review good practice in quality assurance in specialist FE?

This online interactive training is for managers and staff with responsibility for quality assuring specialist SEND provision. This training will consider how to:

• develop a quality cycle for a pathway / curriculum area.
• combine different quality assurance activities to build a rounded, accurate picture of the quality of your provision
• identify and put in place improvement actions where needed
• promote a whole-college approach to quality activities involving staff and including learners wherever possible.
• use data to inform quality improvement

The purpose of this training is to:

• examine the importance of establishing a shared understanding of what constitutes quality provision at different levels of the organisation and look at ways to achieve that
• support you, as a manager, to assess the quality of provision against agreed standards
• explore the effective deployment of different quality assurance tools and strategies
• look at how to combine different quality assurance activities into an overall approach that builds a holistic view of the quality of provision
• examine ways to record data and analyse quality assurance findings
• make effective links between quality assurance and quality improvement.

Session one

This session will: 

• consider how to establish an effective quality team
• explore how to plan an appropriate quality cycle of activities covering all aspects of the learner journey
• support you to produce and use a set of effective quality assurance ‘tools’ to monitor key aspects of the provision
• consider the need to cover all aspects of the curriculum including the work of support staff and therapists

Session two

This session will: 

• provide the opportunity for feedback on the use of the quality ‘tools’ from session one
• explore how to produce effective quality reports
• examine the use of data in quality assurance including in self-assessment reports and quality improvement plans
• explore how to link quality assurance to quality improvement, timely training, and performance management.

Audience

Staff who have an internal quality assurance role for SEND provision, including pathway leads, curriculum managers, quality managers.

Format

This online interactive training is delivered in two half day sessions allowing time in between to carry out quality assurance activities discussed in the first session. There will be opportunities for attendees to work in small groups and share experience.

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