Issue - meetings

This report presents York Learning’s Self Assessment Report (SAR) for the academic year 2017/18 and invites the Executive Member to make any comments or recommendations prior to publication of the final SAR on the Ofsted portal.

Resolved:  That the findings of the service’s self-assessment report be noted. 

Reason:     To help monitor the service and ensure robust governance arrangements.

The Executive Member considered a report which presented York Learning’s Self Assessment Report (SAR) for the academic year 2017/18 and invited him to make comments or recommendations for the production and publication of the final report at the end of January.  The high level summary report was attached as Annex 1, with the draft full SAR at Annex 2 and data at Annex 3. 

The cover report highlighted the continuing improvement in education and training achievement identified in the SAR, with overall service achievement now standing at 84%.  However, apprenticeship programmes achievement had fallen below minimum standards for the third year running, largely due to a high staff turnover in the area of Health and Social Care.  Officers confirmed that the service was reviewing this area and had put actions in place to improve performance.

The Executive Member noted the challenges presented by the national crisis in health and social care against the background of a generally good performance by the service.  He congratulated the team for the work they were doing and

Resolved:  That the findings of the service’s self-assessment report be noted. 

Reason:     To help monitor the service and ensure robust governance arrangements.