Fullagar Construction Skills Centre Ltd

Fullagar Construction Skills Centre Limited Unit 14, Lea Green Business Park, Eurolink, St. Helens, Merseyside WA9 4TR

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At the most recent full inspection, the following areas were identified as needing to improve:

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 Provide useful feedback and set suitable targets so that apprentices improve the quality of their work.

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 Provide a personal development curriculum for apprentices that includes unbiased careers advice and guidance so that apprentices know what options are available to them beyond their apprenticeship.

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 Improve quality assurance processes so that leaders gain an accurate oversight, and put in place appropriate actions, to improve the quality of education apprentices receive.

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During the monitoring inspection, inspectors focused on the following themes:

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 How much progress have leaders and managers made in ensuring that teachers and trainers use assessment well to provide constructive feedback and set clear targets for apprentices.

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 How much progress have leaders and managers made in ensuring that apprentices receive coherent careers education and guidance so that they know what options are available to them beyond their apprenticeship.

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 How much progress have leaders and managers made in developing and implementing quality assurance processes that give them an accurate understanding of the quality of the curriculum, teaching and training so that they can deal with areas of concern in a timely and effective way. Monitoring inspection report: Fullagar Construction Skills Centre Limited 17 and 18 February 2026

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feedback and set clear targets for apprentices (Curriculum, teaching and

Trainers plan assessments carefully so that apprentices can develop and refine their practical skills. This helps apprentices to become competent in, for example, capping and coving sheet vinyl floors, using welding techniques accurately on internal and external corners, using heat-sealing tape and tractor rollers to seam carpets and fitting carpet on winding stairs. Trainers also use assessment effectively to identify gaps in apprentices’ knowledge. Apprentices complete frequent knowledge checks that focus on their previous learning, and trainers review topics when apprentices answer questions incorrectly.

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feedback and set clear targets for apprentices (Curriculum, teaching and

Trainers provide apprentices with thorough and useful oral feedback, which helps them to understand what they do well and how to improve. However, written feedback remains mostly congratulatory and offers limited guidance on how to make improvements.

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feedback and set clear targets for apprentices (Curriculum, teaching and

Tutors review apprentices’ progress carefully during progress review meetings. However, the targets they set for apprentices are often too broad, including things like ‘improve carpet-fitting skills’. Although tutors encourage apprentices to aim for distinction grades, they do not record these expectations in review documents. While most apprentices pass their course, too few achieve distinction grades.

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know what options are available to them beyond their apprenticeship

Leaders and managers ensure apprentices receive careers information throughout their programme. At induction, staff introduce apprentices to a broad range of career paths in the trade and use a progression chart to help them understand potential next steps. Trainers reinforce this guidance through a dedicated careers lesson during the apprenticeship and they direct apprentices to external resources, including the National Careers Service. The apprenticeship trainer draws on his extensive sector experience to broaden apprentices’ understanding of roles such as self- employment and estimating. Apprentices also explore progression options with their employers. Leaders arrange talks from a range of suppliers so that apprentices gain further insight into specialist areas of floor laying they may not encounter in their day-to-day work.

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know what options are available to them beyond their apprenticeship

However, apprentices struggle to recall key details of this advice and guidance. Most remember information about self-employment but demonstrate little awareness of other roles in the sector. They value talks from manufacturers and suppliers and recognise that these sessions include some careers information, but they have mixed views about how detailed or useful this is. Monitoring inspection report: Fullagar Construction Skills Centre Limited 17 and 18 February 2026

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(Leadership and governance, and curriculum teaching and training)

Since the previous inspection, leaders have strengthened the ways in which they evaluate the quality of training. They now use surveys to gather the views of apprentices, employers and, where appropriate, parents. They collect information about the sustained destinations of apprentices and conduct lesson observations. These processes provide useful insights that managers use well to make improvements. For example, learner surveys showed that many apprentices struggled with welding vinyl flooring, so leaders adapted how they teach this topic.

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(Leadership and governance, and curriculum teaching and training)

While leaders have an accurate understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the curriculum, teaching and training and implement suitable improvements, they do not consistently keep clear records of how they have reached their conclusions or the actions they have taken. Records of lesson observations, for example, do not focus sharply enough on the quality of teaching and while the quality improvement plan includes sensible actions, it does not reflect the full extent of leaders’ evaluation or the steps they take to improve their provision.

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Additional next steps

Leaders should continue to work to deal with the areas identified as needing improvement in the full inspection report.

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About this inspection

This is the first monitoring inspection following publication of the inspection report on 2 May 2025 which found the provider to require improvement.

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About this inspection

The provider’s previous full inspection was carried out under the Education Inspection Framework (EIF) at that time. The renewed EIF took effect from 10 November 2025. The areas for improvement identified at the provider’s full inspection have been cross- referenced to relevant evaluation areas in the inspection toolkit for consideration on this monitoring inspection.

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About this inspection

The purpose of this monitoring inspection was not to determine grades for any of the evaluation areas set out in the further education and skills inspection toolkit. The purpose was to identify and report on the provider’s progress in dealing with the areas identified as needing to improve since the provider’s previous inspection. Monitoring inspection report: Fullagar Construction Skills Centre Limited 17 and 18 February 2026

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funding at time of inspection

Monitoring inspection report: Fullagar Construction Skills Centre Limited 17 and 18 February 2026

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