Inspection and

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• Inspection and
• Sustainable Development

Melanie Hunt Director, Learning Skills
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Ofsted our purpose

• We will raise standards and improve lives by
• serving children and learners
• encouraging services to improve
• securing value for money

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Sustainable Development at Ofsted

• Sustainable Development Plan (July 2008)
• Ofsted will ensure that we evaluate the
  contribution that providers are making to a
  sustainable future. This will be through
  inspection, ensuring our frameworks take account
  of sustainable development through guidance and
  training for inspectors and encouraging providers
  to consider sustainable development in their own
  self assessment.

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Ofsted Inspectsour new single framework

• Principles of inspection
• Support and promote improvement
• Be proportionate
• Focus on the needs of users
• Focus on the needs of providers
• Be transparent and consistent
• Be accountable
• Demonstrate value for money

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An integrated approach to judging sustainable
development

• Integrated within the inspection framework and
  referenced across the report
• Raises profile and status of sustainable
  development without adding to the burden of
  inspection
• Encourages inclusion of sustainable development
  considerations within self assessment
• Inspectors can use existing inspection processes
  to gather evidence and evaluate progress in
  sustainable development
• Training for inspectors

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Ofsted Inspectsour new single framework

• Overall effectiveness
• Outcomes for learners
• Quality of provision
• Capacity to improve
• Leadership and management

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Integrating sustainable development

• Outcomes for learners
• learners have the knowledge and understanding to
  enable them to make informed choices about their
  health and well-being
• learners are involved in additional activities
  and projects and make a positive contribution to
  the wider community and its sustainability
• learners develop skills, knowledge and
  understanding relevant to community cohesion

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Integrating sustainable development

• Quality of provision
• the provider considers employers views and
  identified training needs and information on
  performance, skills and labour demand
• the range and content of learning
  programmes/services are relevant to local
  communities in that
• the provider helps ensure coherence ofprovision,
  minimising duplication with other local providers
  
• the provider promotes social inclusion
• the provider promotes sustainable development
• enrichment activities / extended services,
  including work experience, contribute to
  learners enjoyment and achievement, and their
  personal, spiritual, moral, social and cultural
  development

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Integrating sustainable development

• Quality of provision
• enrichment activities / extended services,
  including work experience, contribute to
  learners enjoyment and achievement, and their
  personal, spiritual, moral, social and cultural
  development
• learning teaching, training and assessment, takes
  account of equal opportunities principles and
  awareness of cultural and linguistic diversity

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Integrating sustainable development

• Leadership and management
• the provider promotes and implements national
  and local priorities and initiatives that are
  relevant to learners, employers and local
  communities
• resources, including staff, accommodation,
  facilities and technologies, are developed and
  used to support learning effectively
• the provider promotes sustainable development in
  the use of resources
• the provider is committed to managing its own
  resources in a sustainable way
• the quality of the providers environment, which
  may also include care for that environment

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Self Assessment and Sustainable Development

• LSC / LSIS self assessment guidance (2008)
• Sustainability
• Colleges and providers should model effective
  practice in sustainable development
• Action point Do your self-assessment processes
  take sufficient account of the promotion of
  education for sustainable development, as well as
  your own contribution to sustainability e.g.
  through the design of curriculum and
  accommodation strategies?