KYP Know Your Potential Consultancy Ltd

KYP Know Your Potential Consultancy Limited Monitoring visit report

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Name of lead inspector: Ian Higgins, Her Majesty’s Inspector

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Type of provider: Independent learning provider

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Address: Anglo House Worcester Road Stourport-on-Severn DY13 9AW Monitoring visit: KYP Know Your Potential Consultancy Limited, 17–18 June 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 apprenticeship training provision which began to be funded from April 2017 or after by the Education and Skills Funding Agency and/or the apprenticeship levy. 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

Know Your Potential Consultancy offer apprenticeships in the adult care sector and in working with vulnerable children and young people. At the time of the visit, 162 apprentices were on a programme. Exactly 100 apprentices were enrolled on the level 4 children, young people and families practitioner standard. A further 57 apprentices were enrolled on the level 2 adult care worker standard, with the remaining five apprentices enrolled on the level 5 lead adult care worker standard.

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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 leaders have a clear rationale for the apprenticeships that they teach. They have very positive relationships with the employers that they work with. Leaders have identified a clear need in supporting the adult care sector and to support those working with vulnerable children and young people. Leaders identified a need for employers to upskill their workforce and meet the regulatory qualification requirements for staff within these sectors.

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Reasonable progress

Mangers quickly put in place arrangements for the final assessments that apprentices undertake. They work closely with awarding bodies to ensure that apprentices can take their final assessments despite the ongoing pandemic.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders and assessors work well with employers to select and agree what apprentices will learn during their apprenticeship. For example, leaders and employers work together to select the optional units they teach as part of the apprenticeship, so that the curriculum closely matches the apprentices’ job role. Monitoring visit: KYP Know Your Potential Consultancy Limited, 17–18 June 2021 Leaders work proactively with employers and have recently started pilot schemes where assessors have returned to face-to-face teaching within the apprentices’ workplace. Apprentices enjoy face-to-face teaching, and leaders have been very responsive to this.

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Reasonable progress

Assessors and employers ensure that apprentices apply the theory that they learn to their day-to-day job. As a result, apprentices are developing significant new knowledge, skills and behaviours. However, employers do not receive a long-term plan of what apprentices will be learning to support their long-term planning.

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Reasonable progress

Senior leaders have a process for capturing action points to help them continue to improve the quality of their provision. However, action points focus too narrowly on the arrangements that need to be in place for apprentices’ final assessments, rather than to improve the quality of teaching to make sure apprentices have the knowledge, skills and behaviours needed for their final assessments. Actions set for improvement are not precise enough and do not always have clear dates for completion. As a result, some actions are not completed in a timely manner.

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Reasonable progress

Assessors work well with apprentices and their employers to make sure what apprentices learn links to their job role. Assessors reorder and prioritise what apprentices most need to know and learn. For example, they prioritise information on working with people with disabilities, where apprentices would most benefit and are completely new to the adult care sector.

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Reasonable progress

Assessors have significant experience of working within the settings in which apprentices work. Employers comment on how well assessors know the apprentices. Assessors use the knowledge they have of the settings that apprentices work in and link their teaching to real examples, which apprentices rightly value. Employers and assessors work well together to support apprentices to catch up with their work if they fall behind.

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Reasonable progress

Assessors use a wide range of teaching methods that support apprentices in developing new knowledge, skills and behaviours. They use a mixture of one-to-one and small-group sessions which take place face to face and virtually. Assessors encourage apprentices to reflect on and revisit their learning, which is supporting apprentices to remember their new learning long term and apply it within their job role.

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Reasonable progress

Assessors provide valuable feedback to apprentices, which helps them improve the standard of their work. Assessors complete formal reviews with apprentices on the progress that they are making. They use these well to set clear actions for Monitoring visit: KYP Know Your Potential Consultancy Limited, 17–18 June 2021 apprentices to complete. However, apprentices cannot always remember the actions they need to take to improve the standard of their work.

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Reasonable progress

Apprentices benefit from a wide range of support and resources that help them improve their English and mathematics skills. Senior leaders have recently recruited a new functional skills specialist to further strengthen this provision. However, for those apprentices who already have the required level of functional skills, there is no clear plan to support apprentices to develop these skills and knowledge. Assessors do not clearly identify what apprentices need to know to develop their English and mathematics skills.

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Reasonable progress

A designated safeguarding lead is in place. Staff have a clear understanding of safeguarding and the risks posed to apprentices. However, leaders do not have clear links with local safeguarding agencies to support them in being aware of the local risks within the areas in which they work.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders have put a clear policy and process in place for the reporting of any safeguarding incidents. Apprentices know how to and feel confident to report any safeguarding issues that they may have. Apprentices say that they feel safe and well supported by their assessors and line managers.

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Reasonable progress

Senior leaders employ only staff who are suitable to work with apprentices. Leaders undertake relevant pre-employment checks when recruiting staff.

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Reasonable progress

Apprentices learn about a wide range of safeguarding topics. They know very well about the different types of abuse and what potential signs of such abuse to look for when working with service users. However, apprentices are not clear on the full range of potential risks to their own safety and well-being, such as the risks posed by county lines. Monitoring visit: KYP Know Your Potential Consultancy Limited, 17–18 June 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

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Reasonable progress

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