MVRRS Training Limited

MVRRS Training Limited Monitoring visit report

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Name of lead inspector: Russell Shobrook, Her Majesty’s Inspector

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Type of provider: Independent learning provider

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Address: 36 Charles Street Newport NP20 1JT Monitoring visit: MVRRS Training Limited 28‒29 July 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

MVRRS Training Limited is a private limited company based in Newport, Wales. The company became an approved apprenticeship training provider in 2019. At the time of the monitoring visit, there were 20 apprentices, all over the age of 18 years old. Apprentices study health and social care at levels 2 and 3 and the children and young people apprenticeship at level 4. All are standards-based apprenticeships. The vast majority of apprentices are based in the southwest of England.

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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 developed a curriculum that meets the needs of the sector. They have used their extensive knowledge of the care sector to identify health settings who find it difficult to recruit suitable staff. Leaders have carefully selected employers who ensure that the requirements of the apprenticeship are met. Apprentices are matched with suitable employers who support them to practise and rapidly consolidate the skills and knowledge they are learning.

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Reasonable progress

Staff have a strong sense of social justice and are committed to improving the lives of their apprentices through education and training. They focus on developing apprentices’ key behaviours, such as care and compassion, and support them to recognise their own strengths. As a result, many apprentices feel empowered to embark on a new career in care. Apprentices understand how the apprenticeship qualification can help them to progress in their future careers, and a few are already aspiring to become team leaders. Monitoring visit: MVRRS Training Limited 28‒29 July 2021 Senior leaders check routinely the quality of the training apprentices receive. They monitor closely the progress apprentices make in their learning. Leaders work in partnership with employers to take prompt remedial action and support apprentices as required. Leaders ensure that teaching staff are appropriately qualified and experienced. Managers conduct regular assessments of teaching sessions. Tutors

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Reasonable progress

that are not teaching to the required standard are given additional support and training. As a result, apprentices are taught and supported well and make the expected progress towards achieving their planned outcomes.

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Reasonable progress

Governors provide effective challenge and support to the senior leadership team and ensure they meet their statutory responsibilities. Governors routinely monitor the impact of the actions identified in leaders’ quality improvement plans. They ensure that the business is operated within their stated aims and values.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders have designed a well-sequenced curriculum. This enables apprentices to progressively develop the appropriate knowledge, skills and behaviours for the health and social care sector. For example, tutors start by teaching fundamental skills, such as handwashing and correct lifting techniques, so that apprentices can safely work with clients. Tutors then teach apprentices more complex skills and knowledge, such as nutrition and care legislation.

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Reasonable progress

Staff use assessments of apprentices’ skills and knowledge effectively to accurately identify their starting points. Managers use this information well to identify whether apprentices have any barriers to learning and what additional training they need to be successful in their roles. Apprentices make good use of online learning resources and, as a result, most make the expected progress towards their planned learning goals.

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Reasonable progress

Apprentices enjoy their training and are enthusiastic and excited about learning new knowledge and skills. Apprentices rightly value the opportunities they have to put into practice this new learning. For example, apprentices who work with young people learn how to better protect children through working closely with other agencies.

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Reasonable progress

Employers value the off-the-job training that apprentices receive. They can see how this training enables apprentices to better care for their clients. Employers are rightly complimentary about how effectively tutors communicate with them. As a result, employers understand the progress their apprentices are making in their learning and how they can best support them to consolidate their skills at work.

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Apprentices demonstrate high standards of written English in their work. For example, the use of clear and comprehensive language which apprentices develop Monitoring visit: MVRRS Training Limited 28‒29 July 2021 when writing client case notes and developing care plans. Employers ensure apprentices practise their mathematics skills during their on-the-job training, such as when measuring a clients’ body mass index and checking medication quantities.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders correctly recognise the importance of safeguarding apprentices and their clients. They emphasise potential safeguarding issues during apprentices’ induction and continue to revisit these throughout their training.

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Reasonable progress

Staff monitor and support apprentices’ well-being through additional review meetings. Staff liaise closely with employers to ensure that apprentices are supported effectively in the workplace. As a result, apprentices rightly feel well supported and safe in both their on- and off-the-job training.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders have ensured that the designated safeguarding officers are appropriately trained and experienced. Safeguarding officers collate intelligence updates from local and regional agencies and incorporate this information into training for both staff and apprentices. For example, safeguarding officers have recently provided briefings and update sessions on radicalisation, county lines and knife crime.

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Reasonable progress

Senior leaders have developed safeguarding policies, procedures and guidance. However, not all guidance is sufficiently contextualised to the health setting or the specific risks their apprentices may face. Monitoring visit: MVRRS Training Limited 28‒29 July 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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