Kingdom College Limited

Kingdom College Limited Monitoring visit report

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Name of lead inspector: Claudia Harrison, His Majesty’s Inspector

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Inspection dates: 28 and 29 February 2024

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Type of provider: Independent learning provider Address: 14 Ealing House 33 Hanger Lane Ealing London W5 3HJ Monitoring visit: Kingdom College Limited, 28 and 29 February 2024

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Context and focus of visit

Ofsted undertakes to carry out monitoring visits to all newly directly funded providers of apprenticeship training provision funded 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

Kingdom College Limited is an independent learning provider based in London. The first cohort of apprentices started their training in February 2023.

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Context and focus of visit

At the time of the monitoring visit, there were seven apprentices on the level 5 leader in adult care apprenticeship. There were fewer than five apprentices on each of the level 2 adult care worker, level 2 early years practitioner, level 3 lead adult care worker, and level 3 motor finance specialist standards.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders and managers have devised an ambitious curriculum that considers the needs of apprentices, employers and the national shortage of skilled adult care workers. They have included additional training to help apprentices develop important skills that benefit them and their employers, such as academic writing and digital skills.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders and managers monitor the quality of teaching, learning and assessment well. They use the information they gather from activities such as lesson observations to create sound plans to continue to improve the quality of their training. However, leaders and managers do not give feedback to assessors on the quality of their work in a consistent way. As a result, occasionally, assessors are unclear about how to improve their practice.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders and managers work well with apprentices’ employers. They provide them with clear information about their role supporting apprentices and keep in regular contact with them. Employers attend apprentices’ review meetings and are involved in assessing apprentices’ progress. Apprentices work in a supportive environment where they get enough time to balance their studies and their work. Monitoring visit: Kingdom College Limited, 28 and 29 February 2024 Leaders and managers have recruited assessors who have good expertise in the health and social care sector. They invest well in their assessors and tutors, providing them with useful professional development opportunities. This means that teaching staff develop the knowledge and skills they need to offer apprentices high-quality training.

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Reasonable progress

A suitably experienced board of directors has a sound understanding of the strengths and areas for improvement of the provision. They challenge leaders and managers effectively in frequent meetings and visits.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders and managers use a rigorous recruitment and induction process to make certain that they match apprentices to the programme that is right for them. Managers carefully assess apprentices’ prior experience and job roles so that they teach them genuinely new content and behaviours. For example, level 5 leader in adult care apprentices gain the knowledge and confidence to suggest improved processes to their managers. Over time, apprentices gain relevant skills, knowledge and behaviours that help them to achieve their professional goals.

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Reasonable progress

Managers and assessors monitor apprentices’ progress well. They provide suitable help for apprentices who fall behind with their work. For example, assessors arrange extra one-to-one sessions for apprentices who need help to complete overdue assignments. As a result, apprentices who could be at risk of withdrawing get back on track with their studies.

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Reasonable progress

Well-qualified assessors give apprentices clear feedback on their written and practical work. For example, they give apprentices comprehensive feedback about structuring their essays and how to best respond to different types of questions. Apprentices receive better grades over time for their work.

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Reasonable progress

Tutors adapt their teaching to meet the needs of apprentices during lessons. For example, mathematics tutors use work-based examples to help apprentices understand positive and negative numbers. Because apprentices can relate the calculations to their everyday working lives, they find them more straightforward to carry out and their mathematical skills improve.

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Reasonable progress

Assessors do not inform apprentices consistently about, or prepare them well enough for, the assessments they need to take to achieve their apprenticeship. For example, leaders have not yet implemented their plans for a practice end-point assessment (EPA) within each curriculum. A small minority of apprentices remain not sufficiently aware of the details of their EPA. Monitoring visit: Kingdom College Limited, 28 and 29 February 2024

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Staff promote a culture of safeguarding. For example, the designated safeguarding lead sends apprentices and staff weekly safeguarding updates. Apprentices find this reassuring.

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Reasonable progress

Apprentices feel safe. Leaders and managers have implemented suitable safeguarding policies and processes. Apprentices and staff know how to report safeguarding concerns.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders and managers have taken reasonable steps to meet the requirements of the ‘Prevent’ duty. However, leaders have not tailored their ‘Prevent’ risk assessment well enough. For example, they have not included the specific risks of online learning. Apprentices remember what assessors teach them about the risks of radicalisation and extremism. Monitoring visit: Kingdom College Limited, 28 and 29 February 2024 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 looked after children, safeguarding

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