{"id":4469,"date":"2019-06-18T20:41:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T19:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/?p=4469"},"modified":"2019-06-18T20:41:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T19:41:13","slug":"local-authority-training-provider-benefits-from-quality-insight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gpsj.co.uk\/?p=4469","title":{"rendered":"LOCAL AUTHORITY TRAINING PROVIDER BENEFITS FROM QUALITY INSIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reporter: Stuart Littleford<\/span><\/p>\n

Investment in online technology is enabling a local authority-training provider to enhance their quality improvement approach and be prepared for Ofsted.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gateshead Council Learning & Skills, which provides community learning, apprenticeship and JobCentre Plus training, as well as family learning support and Skills 4 Life, helps more than 11,000 people a year to secure new job skills and achieve nationally recognised qualifications.<\/p>\n

The organisation uses Mesma\u2019s insightQ<\/em> subscription-based software to improve self-assessment and quality improvement planning; assuring progress across its operation, centralising co-ordination of actions and reporting and monitoring these more effectively as part of its quality strategy.<\/p>\n

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Gateshead Training & Skills<\/p><\/div>\n

This includes oversight of key activities concerning quality of teaching, learning and assessment, safeguarding, CPD, communications planning, observation processes, accessibility and subcontractor quality arrangements.<\/p>\n

The training provider\u2019s systems are in line with the Ofsted\u2019s Inspection Framework, specifically around monitoring the impact of quality improvement activities to ensure that they have a beneficial impact on learners.<\/p>\n

Sonya\u00a0Anderson, senior adult learning and skills manager sees the \u2018Evaluate\u2019<\/em> and \u2018Improve\u2019<\/em> modules of insightQ, which she and her colleagues, who include the principal, learning skills manager, curriculum managers and those with responsibility for business development, data and funding and safeguarding, use as \u2018extremely valuable tools\u2019.<\/p>\n

She recalls 2016, when Ofsted recognised during its inspection of Gateshead Council Learning & Skills\u2019 activities the value of insightQ<\/em> as providing a real-time and cost-effective management resource – one actively improving their approach to quality management.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cWe could show to Ofsted that our \u2018Good\u2019<\/em> status is supported through having the appropriate information readily to hand during inspection. We put this down to the value of having an effective self-assessment and improvement planning resource – insightQ<\/em> – available, showing the evidence of a quality oversight throughout our journey.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe technology, which has been integrated across our administrative and management processes over several years, is now very much part and parcel of our oversight and managerial operations. It centralises control of important information, allowing us to track priorities and record progress, so much easier than any other systems I have used.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy colleagues also like using insightQ. It keeps them up-to-date about important actions as they track and record their own progress against agreed actions, again helping to improve overall quality levels and boost efficiency.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Mesma\u2019s insightQ<\/em> is a versatile, collaborative and cost-effective online resource, which enables important areas of the self-assessment process and associated improvement plan activities to be allocated to authorised people within any training environment. Its key purpose is to drive quality improvement in educational provision for learners.<\/p>\n

Sonya Anderson says the technology\u2019s pivotal in evidencing improvements in data capture, background processes and demonstrable staff engagements and actions: \u201cThe system is undoubtedly a huge improvement over paper-based ones, adding value to our operations and considerably assisting in addressing and raising quality standards.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe team benefit from shared ownership of the system, seeing the critical information about achievement and improvement across the entire operation. This makes for more informed decisions as we move forward to embrace a changing training landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n

As she looks to the future she is currently integrating the new Observe <\/em>module to allow her colleagues to schedule and capture centrally the outcomes of on-going learning observations.<\/p>\n

She adds that the technology will play a strong role in helping the team prepare to deliver the new apprenticeship standards to all learners in both levy and non-levy paying employers.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a training and skills provider, we are adapting to comply with changes, and new tools like the Observe<\/em> module, will help us prepare for the new Ofsted inspection landscape which will be coming into effect from this September,\u201d says Sonya Anderson.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor instance, we will see more rapid and effective reporting and feedback, helping us to quickly identify trends and direct resources to where they are most required, as the module goes live.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mesma\u2019s insightQ<\/em> is proving to be a shrewd investment for Gateshead Council Learning & Skills. Easy-to-use and well supported, it\u2019s driving through improvements in quality while transforming the measurement of progress into a more manageable, visible daily process.<\/p>\n

insightQ<\/em> users are already using the platform to make the switch in self-assessment reporting to the new Ofsted Education Inspection Framework. More at www.mesma.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reporter: Stuart Littleford<\/p>\n

Investment in online technology is enabling a local authority-training provider to enhance their quality improvement approach and be prepared for Ofsted.<\/p>\n

Gateshead Council Learning & Skills, which provides community learning, apprenticeship and JobCentre Plus training, as well as family learning support and Skills 4 Life, helps more than 11,000 people a year <\/p>\n

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