Preparing for Short Notice Inspections

	Mike Cox Workshop Chair Operations Manager, Association of Employment & Learning Providers After 13 years in retail purchasing and supply, Mike became an assessor for apprenticeships with TBG Learning in 1999. He soon moved onto various development roles with learndirect, RNID and then LSN where he headed up the bidding and development team, helping design support programmes and research in areas including Train to Gain, Citizenship, Diplomas, Key Skills, Functional Skills and Foundation Learning. He joined AELP in February 2013. Mike is married with 2 children and lives in rural Kent.
	Carolyn Medlin Director, Fairfield Associates Limited Carolyn works as a practitioner and consultant across the Further Education and Skills sector. She is actively involved in teaching, consultancy, research and resource development. Following a role as Head of Quality Improvement and Curriculum Development for a large ACL provider, Carolyn’s free-lance work focuses on teaching and learning, and helping to develop practitioners’ skills in areas such as: outstanding teaching, learning and assessment observation of teaching and learning short notice inspection planning quality improvement, including writing judgement-rich evaluative self-assessment reports and developing learner-centred continuous quality improvement processes 100% of all organisations Carolyn has worked extensively with have improved at least one grade following an Ofsted inspection. Carolyn also continues to work as a tutor in work-based learning, consistently helping her learners to achieve highly successful outcomes.
	William Baidoe-Ansah HMI Her Majesty’s Inspector West Midlands Region – Further Education & Skills, Ofsted William Baidoe-Ansah is an HMI. He became a full-time inspector in 2002. He is a qualified teacher and has a master’s degree in social sciences and an MBA. He has taught in both further and higher education settings and has held senior management positions in general further education colleges. He has experience of college, work-based learning, adult and community learning and initial teacher education inspections. His particular area of expertise is in the social sciences. He has been involved in several Ofsted surveys, the quality assurance of inspection reports and has contributed to the development of new inspection frameworks.
	Tracey Zimmerman HMI Her Majesty’s Inspector Ofsted Tracey has recently taken up the post of Her Majesty’s Inspector and has an enhanced DBS. She has spent over 15 years in the Further Education sector and seven of these as a senior manager. Tracey has managed cross college functions and a range of sector subject areas, including directly managing health and care, childcare, construction, hair and beauty, basic skills and motor vehicle. In her most recent experience, Tracey has been responsible for all adult and international provision in a medium sized tertiary college.
	Sally Ann Tommy Head of People Development, Voyage Care Head of People Development for a national multi-site business employing over 8000 staff, responsible for all aspects of learning and development including the funded provision currently delivering just under 400 Intermediate and Advanced Level Apprenticeships. Sally joined Voyage Care in 2008, initially as the Management Trainer. Prior to that she held various roles in the FE Sector. Voyage Care was Inspected in October 2012 and graded ‘3’- Requires Improvement. Sally engaged with Ofsted through the support and challenge opportunity early in 2013. The provision was re-inspected on 4th February 2014 and graded ‘2’-Good. The February Inspection team acknowledged significant distant travelled in a short time scale, with significant improvement in outcomes from a low starting point. The ‘requires improvement work’ was intensive and focused on; data (overall and timely success rates), learning and the impact of learning and the engagement of stakeholders at all levels. The work required some honest and brutal reflection of the provision, some back to basics changes in process, a massive shift in focus (from input to outcomes) and a culture change –from qualification to learning.

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