Inspection briefing

Youth

Topics to cover:

1

•Introduction and inspection updates

2

•What happens before inspection?

3

•What happens during inspection?

4

•What happens after inspection?

• To promote the highest possible standards of learning, youth work and achievement across the youth sectors

• To promote improvement in the interest of all learners

Purpose of inspection

Current Previous

Outstanding Outstanding

Very Good Very Good

Good Good

Important area(s) for improvement Satisfactory

Requires significant improvement

Inadequate

Requires urgent improvement

Unsatisfactory

Used to report on the quality of:

• Achievement and standards

• Provision

• Leadership and management

Revised performance levels

•One of four inspection outcomes for overall effectiveness

Inspection reporting

The organisation has a high level of capacity for sustained improvement in the interest of all the learners. The ETI will continue to monitor how the organisation sustains improvement.

Previously Outstanding or very good

Inspection reporting

The organisation demonstrates the capacity to identify and bring about improvement in the interest of all the learners. The ETI will continue to monitor how the organisation sustains improvement.

Previously good

•One of four inspection outcomes for overall effectiveness

•One of four inspection outcomes for overall effectiveness

Inspection reporting

The organisation needs to address (an) important area(s) for improvement in the interest of all the learners. The ETI will monitor and report on the organisation’s progress in addressing the area(s) for improvement which include the need to……There will be a follow-up inspection in 12-18 months.

Previously satisfactory

•One of four inspection outcomes for overall effectiveness

Inspection reporting

The organisation needs to address urgently the significant areas for improvement identified in the interest of all the learners. The ETI will monitor and report on the organisation’s progress in addressing the need to…… There will be a follow-up inspection in 12-18 months.

Previously inadequate or unsatisfactory

What happens before inspection?

Letter of notification, 2 weeks prior to inspection

Immediately, the reporting inspector (RI) will make contact with the organisation via phone call – direct them to ETI website

Within a few days, RI will conduct a briefing, information re: data, and other inspection requirements including, BIS, IOD, safeguarding proforma

Immediately prior to inspection, organisation to email data and other inspection material to the ETI (RI)

Pre-inspection information

Data requirements

PC and Safeguarding

What happens during inspection?

Inspection team

Inspection activities

Inspection reporting

ETI:

• Reporting and deputy reporting inspector

• Specialist inspectors – for example PE inspectors in outdoor education

• Associate assessors, if required

Organisation:

• Organisation’s representative

Inspection Team

Representative

Day 1-3• Meet with the representative - short overview of

the organisation’s self-evaluation of the effectiveness of the provision

• Observation of sessions and activities• Scrutinise documentation• Meetings with key personnel• Review of care, support and guidance • Focus groups with young people, learners• Daily report backs to representative

Inspection Activities

Day 4 and 5

• Moderation meeting, the representative is invited to attend

• Spoken report back

Inspection Activities

• Opportunities for representative to attend all meetings during the inspection, including the moderation meeting

• Spoken report back of main findings

• One of six performance levels used for each of the three key questions – A&S, Q of P and L&M

• One of the four inspection outcomes used for overall effectiveness

• Written SOKF and overall conclusion left with the organisation [provisional]

Inspection reporting

A self-evaluation tool:

• Achievements and standards

 • Quality of provision for learning

 • Leadership and management

Together Towards Improvement

• How well do the young people achieve?

– Personal development

– Social development

Achievements and standards

• How effective are youth work planning, practice and assessment?

– Planning

– Practice

– Assessment

Quality of provision for learning

• How well do the learning experiences, programmes and activities meet the needs of the young people and the wider community?

– Curriculum

Quality of provision for learning

• How effective are leadership and management in raising achievement and supporting the young people?

– Strategic leadership

– Action to promote improvement

– External links

– Equality of opportunity

– Safeguarding

Leadership and management

Inspection outcomes

What happens after inspection

&

WHAI

• Organisation receives a pre-publication copy of the report for factual accuracy check

• The RI considers any factual errors identified, and if necessary, discuss these with the organisation, making any required adjustments to the report prior to publication

• Report publishes on the ETI website, normally within 30 days of spoken report back

Published report

Inspection follow-up process

• If safeguarding is evaluated as

unsatisfactory

• Safeguarding areas for improvement

followed-up by the ETI within 6 working

weeks

• Short letter publishes on the ETI website

Safeguarding FUI

Inspection outcomes and what happens after inspection

Overall effectiveness outcome

Action Follow-up process

The ETI will continue to monitor how the

organisation sustains improvement.

Sustaining improvement

inspection

The organisation has a high level of capacity for

sustained improvement in the interest of all the

learners.

The organisation demonstrates the capacity to identify and bring about improvement in the interest

of all the learners.

The ETI will continue to monitor how the

organisation sustains improvement.

Organisation produces action plan to address AFIs

Sustaining improvement

inspection including AFIs identified in

inspection.

Inspection outcomes and what happens after inspection

Overall effectiveness outcome

Action Follow-up process

Organisation produces action plan to address AFIs and submits it to DE within

30 days.

ETI evaluate AP

There will be a follow-up inspection in 12-18 months.

The organisation needs to address (an) important

area(s) for improvement in the interest of all the

learners.

Organisation produces action plan to address AFIs and submits it to DE within

20 days.

ETI evaluate AP

There will be a follow-up inspection in 12-18 months.

The organisation needs to address urgently the significant areas for

improvement identified in the interest of all the

learners.

Questions