When striving for excellence, it is often helpful to have expert guidance and support for you and your team. Our consultants are experts across a wide range of educational sectors and have all held senior management and leadership positions in education. All our consultants have worked as Ofsted inspectors and have extensive experience and knowledge of the inspection process and requirements.
Our consultants have worked with an extensive range of clients, from major public sector, including NHS Trusts, to smaller training providers and large FE colleges. We provide support to new apprenticeship employer providers to support their understanding of apprenticeship requirements to ensure they feel prepared for their Ofsted monitoring visit. We work with existing apprenticeship and adult education providers, including SEN provision, to guide them towards outstanding. Additionally, we have specialists safeguarding consultants who provide a range of services including safeguarding quality audits, guidance around policies and procedures.
Governance is a key focus of Ofsted inspections; our consultants can provide support, external challenge and training for your board. For example, one of our consultants sits on the governing body of an apprenticeship training provider and was recently interviewed by the lead inspector, evidence of their impact is highlighted in the inspection report:
“Managers have established an effective board of governors. They have recruited governors with suitable expertise. For example, board members with a strong background in education usefully helped managers formulate the most recent curriculum plan. Governors provide managers with appropriate challenge and support.” WMC Training, Ofsted Report, July 2022
All our consultancies are bespoke and tailored to meet the needs outlined by our clients. This might be a one-off consultancy, support with SAR/ QIP development, CPD training, quality audits (mock inspections) or a series of support visits over a period of time.
If you are looking for the best consultancy support for your organisation, please get in touch to discuss your individual requirements and find out how we can provide you with the help and support that you need.