Amdas Consultancy Ltd

Amdas Consultancy Limited Monitoring visit report

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Name of lead inspector: Lynda Brown, Her Majesty’s Inspector

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Type of provider: Independent learning provider

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Address: 124 Cornwall Road Lambeth SE1 8TQ Monitoring visit: Amdas Consultancy Limited, 29 October 2019

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Context and focus of visit

Amdas Consultancy Limited is a recruitment agency situated in Lambeth, south London. Training is delivered by a sister company, Amdas Training (Amdas), who support apprentices employed by clients of Amdas Consultancy Limited. Amdas Consultancy has received funding from the Education and Skills Funding Agency since 2018. At the time of the monitoring visit, Amdas provided training to 86 apprentices on the level 2 facilities services apprenticeship framework and to three apprentices on the team leader/supervisor level 3 apprenticeship standard.

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Context and focus of visit

At the monitoring visit in July 2019, inspectors found that leaders had made insufficient progress in ensuring that effective safeguarding arrangements were in place. The purpose of this monitoring visit was to judge what progress leaders and managers had made in ensuring that effective safeguarding arrangements are in place.

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Insufficient progress

Leaders and managers at Amdas have not created a sufficiently strong culture of safeguarding within the organisation. Managers have taken some appropriate actions since the previous monitoring visit. For example, they have established a ‘Prevent’ duty risk assessment and action plan and devised training materials and workshops for apprentices. However, managers have not ensured that all apprentices have access to the workshops or training materials swiftly enough.

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Insufficient progress

Staff with responsibility for safeguarding across the organisation, do not work together effectively to plan or evaluate the actions that they have taken. Managers do not monitor carefully how well they achieve the timescales that they have set to implement policies or procedures, or the impact of the actions that they have taken. As a result, too many actions on the ‘Prevent’ action plan have not been completed swiftly enough.

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Insufficient progress

Too few apprentices have attended planned safeguarding training and as a result, too many apprentices do not have a good enough understanding of safeguarding or the ‘Prevent’ duty. Apprentices do not understand fully the risks associated with extremism and radicalisation or how they are relevant in their job roles. Apprentices are unable to discuss how safeguarding affects their daily lives. Most apprentices feel Monitoring visit: Amdas Consultancy Limited, 29 October 2019 safe at work and know how to report concerns at their places of employment and at Amdas. Monitoring visit: Amdas Consultancy Limited, 29 October 2019 regulates and inspects to achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills for learners of all ages. It regulates and inspects childcare and children’s social care, and inspects the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass), schools, colleges, initial teacher

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training, further education and skills, adult and community learning, and education and training in prisons and other secure establishments. It assesses council children’s services, and inspects services for children looked after, safeguarding and child protection.

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