Pertemps Recruitment Partnerships Limited

Pertemps Recruitment Partnerships Limited Monitoring visit report

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Name of lead inspector: Steve Kelly, His Majesty’s Inspector

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Inspection dates: 18 and 19 December 2025

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Type of provider: Independent learning provider

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Address: Unit A4 Elmbridge Court Cheltenham Road East Gloucester GL3 1JZ Monitoring visit: Pertemps Recruitment Partnerships Limited, 18 and 19 December 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

Pertemps Recruitment Partnerships Limited is a national recruitment company and independent learning provider that teaches 16-week Skills Bootcamps through its training division, PDT Fleet training solutions. The provider offers Skills Bootcamps to adults to enable them to drive Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) and gain employment in the transport and logistics industry. Training is both online and taught at training centres across England.

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Context and focus of visit

At the time of the monitoring visit, the provider was running one Skills Bootcamp with 468 learners in training.

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Context and focus of visit

The provider works with 28 subcontractors who deliver the practical training and test element of the curriculum.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders have significant expertise in the logistics and recruitment sectors. They work closely with their partners and are passionate about ensuring that learners have the skills, knowledge and behaviours to enable them to become HGV drivers.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders and managers have a clear rationale for the Skills Bootcamp they offer. The curriculum aims to support adults who want to develop new skills in the HGV driving industry. The curriculum contributes to the local, regional, and national skills gaps and enables haulage companies to meet the demand for qualified HGV drivers.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders and managers have developed strong links with national employers to enable learners to find employment after completing the bootcamp. Leaders also subcontract to trainers with subject expertise to teach the practical element of the Skills Bootcamp. Monitoring visit: Pertemps Recruitment Partnerships Limited, 18 and 19 December 2024 Leaders manage their subcontractors well and ensure appropriate checks are in place before they assign learners. This includes checking trainers’ qualifications and experience as well as ensuring that they have suitable policies and procedures, including for safeguarding and equality and diversity, in place. Although leaders set key performance indicators for subcontractors, they mostly relate to business performance rather than the quality of teaching. Consequently, leaders do not have full oversight of the quality of training that contractors provide.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders have appropriate governance arrangements in place. They report to directors so that they can provide direction and strategic challenges. Leaders and governors are clear on their strengths and areas for improvement. They know what they need to do to improve further, including working with critical friends with experience in further education.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders have created a suitably sequenced curriculum guided by HGV sector legislation and regulation. Learners gain an introduction to the sector, which includes an overview of the haulage industry’s rules and regulations. They then move on to more complex topics, such as driving articulated vehicles, legislation in other countries, and weight restrictions.

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Reasonable progress

Staff monitor learners’ progress closely to identify gaps in their knowledge. Staff make frequent well-being calls and provide support sessions for learners who need extra help. Qualified driving instructors train learners to industry standards to enable them to pass both the theory and practical elements of their HGV licence.

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Reasonable progress

Trainers develop learners’ mathematics skills during the Skills Bootcamp, such as the use of ratios, long-distance travel calculations and the 24-hour clock. However, leaders recognise they need to do more to identify learners’ English skills at the start of their Skills Bootcamp so that they can plan and support them for their next steps.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders work closely with haulage employers to plan and develop the Skills Bootcamp. For example, they have added training on safe and efficient driving to ensure learners have the necessary skills that employers expect. Trainers also ensure learners understand weight restrictions, the use of tachographs, and how to hitch and reverse a trailer safely. Most learners benefit from employer ‘buddy’ days, where they can get hands-on experience with an employer.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders have ensured that the vast majority of learners who complete the Skills Bootcamp achieve a positive outcome. This includes gaining employment as HGV drivers or continuing in their current sector-relevant job with increased responsibilities. Monitoring visit: Pertemps Recruitment Partnerships Limited, 18 and 19 December 2024 In earlier cohorts, leaders recognised that the proportion of learners who left the Skills Bootcamp early was too high. Leaders have taken swift action to deal with this, such as recruiting more welfare staff to support and monitor learners’ progress. This has contributed to the proportion of learners leaving the course early decreasing.

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Reasonable progress

Learners feel safe. Leaders have developed appropriate safeguarding policies and procedures for recording concerns and have appointed a suitably trained designated safeguarding lead member of staff. Leaders also ensure that staff undertake annual training and understand their responsibilities.

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Reasonable progress

Learners learn how to keep themselves safe when out driving and the importance of healthy eating and taking frequent breaks. Learners understand the risks of human trafficking for HGV drivers and their role and responsibilities to conduct daily vehicle checks while on the road.

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Reasonable progress

Learners are less confident about how to recognise the signs of radicalisation and how to protect themselves from extremist behaviours. Monitoring visit: Pertemps Recruitment Partnerships Limited, 18 and 19 December 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 children looked after, safeguarding and child protection.

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