Apprenticeship Reviews helping to ensure the accuracy of your self-evaluation
15+ Years' Experience
130 Schools Supported in 23-24
4,300 Hours of Support Delivered
What is an Apprenticeship Review?
Our apprenticeship review service is for apprenticeship training providers looking to ensure they are prepared for the rigours of their first monitoring visit or full inspection.
This services also supports with addressing the areas for improvement that may have been identified.
B11 Education can conduct a review of your apprenticeship provision so that you can be sure of the accuracy of your self-evaluation: strengths, areas for development and impact of your improvement actions prior to a visit by Ofsted.
How it works
- ✓We start with a conversation to find out about your provision. Are you a single site provider or do you deliver across multiple sites at a regional or even national scale?
- ✓In collaboration with you, we develop a focus for the review and a timetable for what we will look at.
- ✓The duration is likely to be about four days to cover the breadth of provision that you offer, though this could be reduced to three days if your delivery is localised.
What You Receive
- ✓We will provide a comprehensive report that sets out the strengths along with areas for development, including recommended actions.
Additional information on our apprenticeship review service?
A typical timetable will include activities such as scrutiny of learner documentation, including initial assessments, programme outlines, reflective accounts and observation feedback; observations of an off-the-job practical and a theory lesson in different locations; face-to-face and telephone interviews with a sample of apprentices, employers and trainers; and face-to-face and telephone interviews with the training director from the commissioning provider.
A simple step-by-step process to ensure you know exactly what you’re getting:
Initial Consultation
A free 20-minute consultation to understand your school’s needs.
Preparation
Thorough analysis of your provision, and development of a focus for review.
Review
Scrutiny of learner documentation, face-to-face interviews and more.
Report write-up
Clear actionable feedback delivered verbally and in a comprehensive written report.
What do training providers say about B11’s Apprenticeship Reviews?
This is exactly what we needed. We had been given some advice that proved to be inaccurate and, in spite of challenging some of that guidance, we had been told time and again that the processes we had in place were more than adequate for the apprenticeships we were providing. Fortunately, we were able to engage an expert through B11 Education, who provided the level of expertise we have needed all along. They told us what was good about what we do but also pointed out where we need to do better. It is now absolutely clear what we need to work on and we have already booked a follow-up session with the reviewer to develop an action plan.
Anon.
