TVS Education Limited

TVS Education Ltd Monitoring visit report

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Name of lead inspector: Gerard McGrath Her Majesty's Inspector

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Type of provider: Independent learning provider

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Address:

Premier Training Academy, Church road, Shropham, Norfolk, NR17 1EJ Monitoring visit: TVS Education Ltd, 19-20 May 2021

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Context and focus of visit

From October 2018, Ofsted undertook to carry out monitoring visits to all newly directly funded providers of adult learning provision which began to be funded from April 2017 or after by the Education and Skills Funding Agency. This monitoring visit was undertaken as part of those arrangements and as outlined in the Further education and skills inspection handbook, especially the sections entitled ‘Monitoring visits’ and ‘Monitoring visits to providers that are newly directly publicly funded’. The focus of these visits is on the themes set out below.

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Context and focus of visit

TVS Education Limited (TVS) is an independent learning provider based in Shropham, Norfolk. TVS changed ownership in 2019 and is now part of the wider Train With Premier Limited (TWP) Group.

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Context and focus of visit

TVS started to provide programmes for adult learners in the sports and leisure sector in October 2020. At the time of the visit, there were 39 adults on level 2 courses. 12 learners were studying the certificate in coaching multi-skills development in sport, 10 were studying the certificate in understanding Autism, 16 were studying the certificate in understanding children and young people's mental health, and one learner was studying the certificate in understanding behaviour that challenges.

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Context and focus of visit

Most learners are recruited through a network of employers who provide exercise and activity programmes in schools. They are on the multi-skill course which is required for their new job roles. The few currently unemployed learners are on courses to help them better understand the emotional and educational support needs of their own children.

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Context and focus of visit

Tutors have been restricted in attending primary school sites because of recent government restrictions. Therefore, on-site assessment of learners’ skills has not yet been carried out on the coaching multi-skills development in sport course. On-site assessment is planned from June 2021.

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Context and focus of visit

The impact of COVID-19 (coronavirus) has been taken into account in the findings and progress judgements below.

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Reasonable progress

Senior managers have developed a range of learning programmes to support adults gain and sustain employment, mainly while working in primary school settings. They have worked effectively with employers to design a curriculum to meet their needs, Monitoring visit: TVS Education Ltd, 19-20 May 2021 and with awarding bodies to provide new learning resources that support a blended model of training.

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Reasonable progress

Managers have an effective oversight of the help and guidance tutors give learners. Senior leaders have recently invested in a new online learning platform. Managers interrogate the information summaries available through this platform and have an accurate overview of each course. They use this information to challenge tutors appropriately on the support they provide to individual learners.

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Reasonable progress

Senior leaders have insufficient formal plans in place for meeting tutors’ training and development requirements. Managers use the results of external quality reports, learners’ feedback and observations of coaching and assessment to agree individual improvement actions with each tutor. However, staff appraisals have not been completed and no formal training and development plan has yet been agreed.

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Reasonable progress

Senior managers monitoring and oversight of learners’ career progression is insufficient. While they know which learners remain employed by their current employers, they do not know the destinations of unemployed learners and those who leave their current employer.

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Reasonable progress

Senior managers have successfully actioned many of the areas for improvement identified at the previous apprenticeship monitoring visit. For example, senior leaders have ensured that governance arrangements and relationships with employers are now effective.

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Reasonable progress

Tutors make insufficient use of learners prior learning and skills to plan training effectively. For example, tutors do not use the results of learners’ initial assessments or their prior qualifications to customise their training plans.

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Reasonable progress

Tutors do not challenge and support learners to consider their longer-term career plans and aspirations. Although, learners are motivated to stay and progress in the sectors they are currently working in, tutors do not provided them with sufficient information and advice to consider their next steps in learning or how their new transferable skills may help them to progress.

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Reasonable progress

Learners benefit from their learning which supports their career and personal aspirations. For example, those on the multi-skills course understand how the qualification will allow them to work in school settings. Those on the understanding Monitoring visit: TVS Education Ltd, 19-20 May 2021 children and young peoples’ mental health course have developed more empathy for their own children following periods of self-isolation because of the pandemic.

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Reasonable progress

Learners develop a wide range of new skills because of their learning. For example, learners on the multi-skills course can adapt their coaching sessions to meet the developmental needs of children in different year groups. Learners in one setting adjust the content of planned exercise sessions after noting that a high proportion of children had gained weight while being home-schooled.

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Reasonable progress

Tutors provide effective feedback that helps learners to know what they have done well and what they need to do to improve. Learners value the support that they receive from their tutors and this helps them to progress well with their learning.

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Reasonable progress

Learners develop useful study skills, including good research and analytical skills. As a result, they produce good quality written work. Learners who have additional learning support requirements benefit from the frequent help that tutors provide. This extra help enables them to understand difficult concepts and express these clearly in academic assignments.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders and managers have developed a supportive culture and robust systems to ensure that staff, learners, and the children that they work, with feel and are safe. Significant concerns that are identified are dealt with swiftly and appropriately. Senior leaders work closely with external agencies, including local authorities, to respond appropriately to incidents. They provide effective support to learners who raise concerns and enable them to succeed with their learning.

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Reasonable progress

Tutors ensure that safeguarding topics are reinforced throughout all training courses. Learners have appropriate knowledge of the risks in their local areas. For example, they have a sound understanding of recent local instances of ‘upskirting’. Learners feel comfortable in discussing these topics and know how they can support children to stay safe.

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Reasonable progress

Senior managers do not check learners’ understanding and application of their safeguarding learning in their own settings. Tutors do not routinely check how often learners use their new knowledge to identify and report relevant concerns in the course of their work in schools. Monitoring visit: TVS Education Ltd, 19-20 May 2021 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 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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Reasonable progress

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Reasonable progress

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