Aspect Training Limited

Aspect Training Limited Report following a monitoring visit to a ‘requires improvement’ provider

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Name of lead inspector: Hayley Lomas, His Majesty’s Inspector

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Type of provider: Independent learning provider

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Address:

Eckington Business Centre 62 Market Street Eckington Sheffield S21 4JH Monitoring visit: Aspect Training Limited, 28 September 2022

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Context and focus of visit

Aspect Training Limited was inspected in November 2021. At that time, inspectors judged the overall effectiveness of the provision to require improvement.

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Context and focus of visit

The focus of this monitoring visit was to evaluate the progress that leaders and managers have made in addressing the main areas for improvement identified at the previous inspection.

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Context and focus of visit

Aspect Training Limited is an independent learning provider based in Sheffield. It provides adult learning programmes funded through advanced learner loans for adults working in the health and social care sector. At the time of the monitoring visit, there were 36 learners enrolled on three different programmes. Eighteen learners were working towards a level 3 diploma in adult care, six were enrolled on a level 4 diploma in adult care, and the remaining 11 were enrolled on a diploma in leadership and management for adult care.

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Insufficient progress

Since the last inspection, leaders have been very slow to implement improvements to the quality of the adult education programmes that they offer. They have started to act very recently, and several changes have been planned, such as a meeting with teachers to review learners’ progress, and reviews with learners who are part way through their programme. However, it is too early to see any impact that these changes will have on learners’ experience on their programme.

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Insufficient progress

Leaders do not have a clear understanding of what needs to be improved. They have little oversight of the quality of teaching or communication between learners and tutors. Teaching is not effectively planned or sequenced, and learners do not know what they will learn as part of their programme or the order in which they will learn it. Too often, tutors do ensure that learners understand what they have achieved or what they will study next.

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Insufficient progress

Tutors are not aspirational for their learners. Although learners often have a clear rationale for studying their chosen course, tutors do not support them well enough to achieve their qualifications in a timely manner. The majority of learners are significantly beyond their planned end date for completing their course. They do not know what they need to do to complete and, too often, they lose motivation and confidence to learn. Monitoring visit: Aspect Training Limited, 28 September 2022 Learners value the knowledge and experience of their tutors. They know they can contact tutors outside of their lessons. Tutors offer helpful additional workplace guidance to learners working in a management role on how to deal with difficult situations.

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Insufficient progress

Tutors do not set high enough expectations of learners for the development of their knowledge and skills. They do not use the results from assessments of learners’ starting points to help learners identify gaps in their knowledge or skills. This hinders learners’ progress on their course.

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Insufficient progress

Tutors do not review the progress that learners make in developing their English and mathematics skills. They identify learners’ strengths and weaknesses in English and mathematics and use this information to provide learners with access to online training resources, but do not follow up on whether these are used. A few learners have yet to access their online course or have only completed their diagnostic assessments, despite being several months into their programme.

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Insufficient progress

Tutors do not identify the specific actions that learners need to take to move forward. They do not provide clear direction to learners on what they need to do to develop their specific knowledge and skills. As a result, learners are unclear about how much they have to do to complete their programme.

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Insufficient progress

Tutors have recently developed a new individual learning plan to identify the knowledge, skills and behaviours that learners have when they start their course and those that they need to develop on the course. They use this information well to select modules of learning and targets for the programme. However, too few learners have been subject to this new approach to planning, so it is too early to measure its impact.

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Insufficient progress

Tutors identify learners’ career aspirations at the start of the programme. However, they do not use this information to provide learners with careers advice or guidance to plan for their next steps. Some learners currently working in care homes would like to become nurses but receive little advice on how to achieve this. Monitoring visit: Aspect Training Limited, 28 September 2022 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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Insufficient progress

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