Enterprise Made Simple Ltd

Further education and skills inspection report

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Inspection of Enterprise Made Simple Ltd

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Inspection dates: 30 October to 1 November 2024

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Overall effectiveness Good

The quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Good Adult learning programmes Good Overall effectiveness at previous inspection Not previously inspected

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Information about this provider

Enterprise Made Simple Limited is an independent learning provider, with its head office in Middlesbrough. It provides training courses for adult learners that lead to the level 3 award in business innovation, sustainability and growth, level 3 certificate in principles of management and the level 3 diploma in counselling (free courses for jobs). These courses are taught in the Tees Valley area. Enterprise Made Simple Limited also teaches Skills Bootcamps in digital marketing in North Yorkshire. It receives funding from the Tees Valley Combined Authority and York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority. At the time of the inspection, there were 28 learners enrolled on Skills Bootcamps in digital marketing with no learners enrolled on any other courses. 30 October to 1 November 2024

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What is it like to be a learner with this provider?

Learners experience a calm and welcoming environment which helps them to settle in quickly and to learn. Most learners have been out of education for some time and lack confidence when they begin training. Trainers help learners to develop their presentation skills, work with their peers and learn new business terminology, which helps them to become more self-assured.

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What is it like to be a learner with this provider?

Learners receive effective careers information, advice and guidance to help them make informed choices about their next steps. Trainers signpost learners to further training courses and organise networking events where learners develop contacts with a range of employers and businesses. They arrange for guest speakers to share their experience of working in specific industries. For example, external speakers talk to learners enrolled on Skills Bootcamps in digital marketing about how to grow a business using social media. Learners attend the events to promote their own business ideas and make useful contacts with other professional people.

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What is it like to be a learner with this provider?

Learners feel safe when attending training. They appreciate the security in the building where training takes place, which they regard as a safe space. Learners who set up their own business are often lone workers and learn how to keep themselves safe in these settings.

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better?

Leaders and managers have a clear strategic vision, which is to support people in the Tees Valley and North Yorkshire to enter employment, change career and to set up or further develop their own business. They are passionate and ambitious about working with small business owners to help them develop professionally. Leaders and managers work closely with a range of stakeholders to provide courses that meet regional and local priorities.

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better?

Trainers plan and teach each curriculum in a logical order, which helps learners to build their knowledge and skills over time. For example, learners on Skills Bootcamps in digital marketing start with the foundations of marketing and build on this knowledge until they can apply it to digital platforms. This helps them to develop their skills quickly and apply them in the workplace. Learners then create a content plan to take back to their own organisation.

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better?

Trainers identify accurately what learners can already do at the start of their course. Most trainers use this information well to plan training to meet learners’ specific needs. However, a few trainers do not use information about learners’ starting points effectively when planning training sessions. They do not plan sessions sufficiently well for learners who have more extensive knowledge and experience. This contributes to a few learners not making the progress of which they are capable.

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better?

Trainers are well qualified and experienced in the subjects that they teach. On the level 3 award in business innovation, sustainability and growth trainers have 30 October to 1 November 2024

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extensive business acumen gained from successfully running their own business. They have appropriate subject knowledge, having worked in marketing and managed digital marketing plans. Trainers who teach counselling have a degree in therapeutic counselling.

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Trainers check learners’ understanding effectively through a range of methods. For example, they observe learners using digital applications and ask questions to learners when they give presentations. Trainers provide helpful feedback to learners that identifies where learners have made errors or can develop their answers further. Learners use this feedback to improve their work.

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Trainers attend useful training to keep up to date with their subject knowledge. For example, they attend training about artificial intelligence technologies. Trainers also attend training to enhance their teaching skills, attending sessions on topics such as assessment and techniques to manage groups of learners.

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Trainers use their expertise to explain new concepts well by relating them to their own experiences in industry. Trainers on Skills Bootcamps in digital marketing explain about different types of emails such as transactional and promotional. They demonstrate clearly how emails are used in marketing. Trainers use a range of engaging and well-considered learning activities that enable learners to recap on, repeat and consolidate their learning and skills. For example, learners give presentations, participate in group work with their peers and complete workbooks, which helps consolidate what they have learned.

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Learners develop new knowledge, skills and behaviours successfully. Learners on the level 3 business innovation, sustainability and growth course develop fundamental knowledge and skills to set up and run their own business. They learn about procurement, different client groups, business competition, how to write business plans, including pricing, and the cost for services they offer. Learners on the level 3 counselling course develop knowledge about a range of counselling strategies and understand the benefits and limitations of cognitive behavioural therapy. They reflect on their own practice and become more aware of their own behaviours and the impact this might have on their clients. Most learners achieve their qualifications and move on to employment, set up their own business or further expand their existing business.

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Trainers help learners with additional needs effectively by responding to their individual support needs. For example, they seat learners with autism who are adversely affected by bright lights in darker areas of the training room. Trainers seat learners with hearing correctors at the front of the room so they can hear the trainer and supply coloured workbooks for learners with dyslexia.

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Leaders, managers and governors have effective oversight of the quality of education. They complete a range of activities to ensure that learners benefit from high-quality training. For example, they complete learning walks where they look at specific themes such as pedagogical techniques and assessment and carry out 30 October to 1 November 2024

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observations of training. The governance board includes a specialist consultant who provides effective external scrutiny.

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Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.

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What does the provider need to do to improve?

 Ensure that trainers use the information about learners’ starting points effectively when planning training so that learners make the progress of which they are capable. 30 October to 1 November 2024

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Provider details

Address 4 Eggleston Court Riverside Park Middlesbrough TS2 1RU

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Provider details

Website https:/enterprisemadesimple.co.uk

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Provider details

Principal, CEO or equivalent Phil Teasdale

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Provider details

Provider type Independent learning provider

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Provider details

Date of previous inspection Not previously inspected

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Provider details

Main subcontractors None 30 October to 1 November 2024

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Information about this inspection

The inspection team was assisted by the managing director, as nominee. Inspectors took account of the provider’s most recent self-assessment report and development plans, and the previous inspection report. The inspection was carried out using the further education and skills inspection handbook and took into account all relevant provision at the provider. Inspectors collected a wide range of evidence to inform judgements, including visiting learning sessions, scrutinising learners’ work, seeking the views of learners, staff and other stakeholders, and examining the provider’s documentation and records.

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Inspection team

Jacquie Brown, lead inspector His Majesty’s Inspector Philippa Firth His Majesty’s Inspector Liz Greenhalgh Ofsted Inspector 30 October to 1 November 2024

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