Musically Ltd

Name of lead inspector: Jon Bowman, His Majesty’s Inspector

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Type of provider: Independent learning provider

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Address: Holborn Studios 49–50 Eagle Wharf Road London N1 7ED Monitoring visit: Musically Ltd, 18 December 2024

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Context and focus of visit

Musically Limited is an independent learning provider based in central London. It is the lead partner in consortium with Clock Your Skills. The consortium offers music Skills Bootcamp courses based at Collage Arts in Wood Green, London. The consortium started the first Skills Bootcamp course in January 2023, aimed at preparing adults for a variety of jobs in the music industry.

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At the new provider monitoring visit in July 2024 leaders and managers had made insufficient progress in ensuring that effective safeguarding arrangements were in place.

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Reasonable progress

Since the previous monitoring visit, managers have undertaken suitable safeguarding training. They understand their responsibilities to safeguard vulnerable adults, their role as designated safeguarding leads and their responsibilities under the ‘Prevent’ duty. Managers have put in place a suitable safeguarding policy. This includes clear guidance on how to report, respond to and record any safeguarding concerns. There have been no safeguarding concerns, so these policies are, as yet, untested. Managers make sure that learners know who to contact if they have any concerns about their safety or welfare. Safeguarding leads are visible and accessible to learners. Learners are confident that if they raised any concerns they would be treated seriously. Learners describe learning in a warm, caring, and safe environment where staff promote respect and tolerance of each other. Managers make sure that learners understand how to keep themselves safe online.

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For example, through the curriculum learners know to take care with their own digital presence, adhere to guidelines on use of social media, present a professional profile and to think before posting online. Managers have suitably assessed the risks to learners under the ‘Prevent’ duty. For example, they identify the potential risk of outside speakers expressing extremist views to learners. To mitigate against this, managers have devised a checklist to assess whether the content of sessions led by outside speakers is appropriate. However, they have not yet completed any assessments. Monitoring visit: Musically Ltd, 18 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

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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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