WS Training Ltd

Name of lead inspector: Linnia Khemdoudi, Her Majesty’s Inspector

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Type of provider: Independent learning provider

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Address: Manor Barn Church Road Great Barton Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP31 2QR Monitoring visit: WS Training Ltd, 23 June 2021

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Context and focus of visit

This monitoring visit focused on the providers safeguarding arrangements. It follows a safeguarding concern that was raised with Ofsted. This visit was undertaken as outlined in the operational note on visits carried out from January 2021 and with reference to the further education and skills handbook.

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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 judgement below.

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How leaders and managers ensure the

safeguarding and well-being of their learners.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders have ensured that staff understand fully how to keep learners in their care safe. Several staff have trained to be mental health first-aiders. They support an increasing number of learners who disclose concerns about their own mental well- being. Leaders have good relationships with all relevant external support services. The impact is that most learners get professional support when needed.

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Reasonable progress

Tutors have developed trusting relationships with learners to ensure that they are safe. Staff record safeguarding incidents effectively using an agreed system. All staff are knowledgeable and understand how to report concerns effectively. Leaders’ recording is detailed; appropriate follow up and monitoring is carried out. This contributes towards learners being looked after effectively in the setting. Learners are confident that adults care for them. Learners trust them implicitly to look after them.

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Reasonable progress

Tutors cover a broad range of appropriate safeguarding topics in lessons. For example, identifying healthy/unhealthy personal relationships, how to remain safe with strangers and e-safety. However, teachers do not develop learners’ strategies to apply this learning to a range of real life scenarios.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders’ arrangements to ensure that learners progress to their next steps in learning are incomplete. Leaders often do not put sufficient support in place to assure themselves that learners’ plans result in learners’ intended destination.

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Reasonable progress

Staff develop good relationships with learners’ carers, employers and parents. Staff communicate frequently with them to check on learners’ well-being when they are not in college. As a result, learners are supported at home and in their work settings effectively. Monitoring visit: WS Training Ltd, 23 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 and child protection.

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Reasonable progress

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Reasonable progress

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Reasonable progress

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Reasonable progress

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