Carey Group Limited

Carey Group Limited Monitoring visit report

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Name of lead inspector: Saher Nijabat, His Majesty’s Inspector

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Inspection dates: 10 and 11 September 2024

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Type of provider: Independent learning provider

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Address: Carey House Great Central Way Wembley Brent HA9 0HR Monitoring visit: Carey Group Limited, 10 and 11 September 2024

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Context and focus of visit

Ofsted undertakes to carry out monitoring visits to all newly directly funded providers of adult learning provision where the provision offered is in scope for inspection. 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

Carey Group Limited (Careys) is an employer provider with its training campus in Wembley, London. Careys operates its construction business across the country and mainly offers privately funded training in construction. Careys started teaching construction Skills Bootcamps in August 2024. At the time of the monitoring visit, there were five adult learners enrolled on a Skills Bootcamp course in ground works for general operatives.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders have a sound rationale for the Skills Bootcamps they offer. They aim to reduce the shortage of skilled workers in the construction sector. Leaders have suitable partnerships with employers, sector bodies in construction and various charities to recruit learners and identify employment opportunities for them. They use their networks and industry experience effectively to plan training that prepares learners well for work in the sector.

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Reasonable progress

Since starting to teach Skills Bootcamps, leaders have taken suitable actions to manage and teach their courses effectively. They planned to introduce Skills Bootcamps at the start of 2024. At that time, leaders correctly identified that they lacked the expertise to do so successfully. They redesigned their curriculum and hired tutors who have the subject knowledge and experience to teach about ground operations. Leaders have now implemented Skills Bootcamps effectively.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders have a suitable quality improvement plan in place to improve the quality of their Skills Bootcamps. They have also established a separate board of governors to provide detailed oversight of the provision. However, some of the improvement actions are very new and not fully implemented, and it is too early to judge their impact on the quality of education and training that learners receive. Monitoring visit: Carey Group Limited, 10 and 11 September 2024

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Leaders ensure learners on Skills Bootcamps learn in an environment which closely replicates construction sites. Learners benefit from learning in an industry standard training workshop, with a digging pit and multiple workstations. They gain valuable hands-on experience with tools and equipment commonly used in the industry.

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Reasonable progress

Tutors use their industry experience well to explain topics using relevant examples from their work. Tutors plan lessons so that learners can apply the theoretical knowledge they learn to practical tasks to help them to remember what they have been taught. In practical sessions, they give learners helpful hints and tips on their practical skills. For example, when learners struggle to complete a task, such as levelling the base for paving, tutors demonstrate how to do it correctly. As a result, learners develop and improve their practical skills quickly.

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Tutors support learners effectively to gain accredited qualifications in health and safety and achieve construction skills certification scheme (CSCS) cards. Staff also help learners to improve their employability skills and to find work. For example, staff send learners job vacancies, support them to write their CVs and help them to prepare for job interviews. Consequently, learners develop the essential knowledge and skills they need to help them prepare for employment.

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Tutors frequently recap on previous learning at the start and end of sessions to help learners remember what they have been taught. However, they do not always ask learners sufficiently probing questions to check their understanding or clarify misconceptions. Tutors do not always give learners useful feedback on their written work. As a result, learners do not know how to make necessary improvements.

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Leaders have put in place appropriate safeguarding policies and procedures, including those that set out how they comply with the ‘Prevent’ duty. Leaders ensure that the designated safeguarding leads are suitably trained to undertake their roles effectively.

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Learners feel safe. Tutors teach learners well about the health and safety risks they may face at work as part of the curriculum. As a result, learners know how to work safely on construction sites. However, staff do not teach learners well enough about the local risks they may face related to radicalisation or extremism. Consequently, Monitoring visit: Carey Group Limited, 10 and 11 September 2024 learners do not have a clear understanding of how these risks may impact their lives and work. Monitoring visit: Carey Group Limited, 10 and 11 September 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

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