3T Training Services Limited

3T Training Services Limited Monitoring visit report

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Name of lead inspector: Glenise Burrell, His Majesty’s Inspector

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Type of provider: Independent learning provider

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Address:

11-12 Jupiter Court Orion Business Park North Shields NE29 7SE Monitoring visit: 3T Training Services Limited, 30 and 31 July 2025

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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

3T Training Services Limited is a global training provider in the oil and gas, wind, and power sectors. Leaders provide Skills Bootcamp training to adult learners funded by Enterprise Cumbria. At the time of the inspection, there were eight adult learners enrolled on a scaffold labourer course.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders have selected Skills Bootcamps which help to fill skills gaps in the construction industry in Cumbria. They offer scaffold labourer courses to adult learners who are unemployed. Learners benefit from a curriculum which includes the knowledge that employers in the area need including first aid at work, asbestos awareness, manual handling and the construction skills certification scheme card (CSCS). Studying these topics supports learners to gain employment in the sector.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders have invested in well-resourced learning environments including both classrooms and practical areas. Learners and staff benefit from access to a subsidised canteen with home-made, healthy food options.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders recruit instructors who are well qualified and experienced to deliver the training. They are experienced in providing education and training in a range of educational settings. Learners greatly appreciate the skills and knowledge their instructors bring to the lessons.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders have in place basic quality assurance arrangements. They have dedicated staff with responsibility to oversee the quality of the provision. Staff measure the quality of the Skills Bootcamps by carrying out activities such as observations of training. However, these activities do not focus sufficiently on the effectiveness of the teaching that instructors provide and, in a few cases, planned assurance Monitoring visit: 3T Training Services Limited, 30 and 31 July 2025 activities are not completed. Leaders are aware of this and have implemented improvements to the processes that they have in place, but it is too soon to measure the impact of these.

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Reasonable progress

Senior leaders provide effective support and challenge to managers. They are familiar with the requirements of Skills Bootcamps. They have a good understanding of the progress that learners are making and challenge managers to ensure that learners are successful.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders and managers have sequenced the Skills Bootcamps course well. Instructors begin by teaching learners important safety elements, such as manual handling and first aid, and then they move to more advanced modules including asbestos awareness and completion of topics required for the CSCS card.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders and managers carry out initial assessment to identify learners’ existing skills. This assessment identifies learners’ skills in English, mathematics and problem- solving. If a learner does not have the required skills to complete the course, they are referred to a local college. Leaders rightly recognise that they do not use the information from these assessments well enough to identify specific learning targets for learners. They have put in place measures to rectify this, but it is too soon to identify the impact.

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Reasonable progress

Instructors provide frequent demonstrations and repeat important content to help learners to secure new knowledge. Instructors encourage learners to work through scenarios in pairs to help them to apply and consolidate their developing skills.

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Reasonable progress

Instructors assess learners’ progress frequently throughout the course using a variety of assessment methods. For example, when carrying out first-aid activities, instructors provide feedback to learners on how to improve and perfect the techniques. Instructors set mini-tests prior to learners taking the actual assessment to help prepare them for the final assessments.

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Reasonable progress

Learners feel safe. Trainers introduce learners to what constitute safeguarding risks early in their training. Learners are informed that they can report concerns relating Monitoring visit: 3T Training Services Limited, 30 and 31 July 2025 to these topics to staff, including their trainers and the designated safeguarding leads.

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Reasonable progress

Until very recently, leaders and managers did not have effective processes in place to identify vulnerable adults. They now have an appropriate process in place but are yet to fully implement it.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders and managers have in place suitable policies and processes to keep learners safe. These include a safeguarding and ‘Prevent’ policy, as well as a ‘Prevent’ duty risk assessment and action plan. Monitoring visit: 3T Training Services Limited, 30 and 31 July 2025 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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Reasonable progress

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