Lighthouse Group ‘delighted’ with Ofsted Report
13/09/2022 - Lighthouse Group
Lighthouse Group are delighted to announce that a ‘good’ rating has been awarded following their first full Ofsted inspection, that took place in June 2022.
As a first official inspection result, we could not be prouder of our trainers, learners, partners and everyone else associated with Lighthouse, for making this result possible.
‘Since starting to deliver these in 2017 we have worked really hard to bring our brand of people development to the apprenticeship world and delighted that this has been recognised’ , Gill Shimmon, Lighthouse’s Managing Director.
Some of the key observations from the report include:
- Apprentices receive high-quality training and support. Expert tutors make learning relevant to apprentices’ work roles.
- Apprentices appreciate the professional and positive relationships they enjoy with staff. They value the high level of support they receive from tutors and workplace.
- Apprentices learn the skills and behaviours needed to achieve high grades. These skills and behaviours allow apprentices to make progress in their chosen careers.
- Leaders have a clear vision for the company. They focus on providing high-quality leadership and management training. Leaders work with both public and private
- Leaders set high expectations for apprentices. Leaders focus the curriculum on both vocational and academic competence. They ensure that good-quality education is provided. Leaders enable apprentices to apply their learning to their specific work.
- Leaders ensure that apprenticeship programmes are closely tailored to individual employers’ requirements.
- Trainers make good use of a variety of teaching and learning strategies. They encourage professional discussions and use effective questioning to determine apprentices’ understanding.
Our relationships with our employers and delegates was praised by every inspector – our ability to deliver truly life changing development to each and every person we work with was clear to see and the inspectors were overwhelmed with positive comments about the experience of working with Lighthouse!
Our results – we already knew our achievement rates (97% merit and distinction) were great however the inspectors all said they had rarely come across such consistently great results – even to the extent that they had to check with us this figure was correct!!
Our ethos – it was recognised that we value quality over quantity and the inspectors were impressed with how we only opt to deliver programmes we can do really well, working to continuously improve these based on our experience and feedback from our employers and delegates. They were also very pleased to see the care and support we had provided for our delegates throughout the pandemic, “not giving up on anyone” who wanted to complete their qualification.
This is a great result that what we do works – we never set out just to get a ‘good’ Ofsted inspection, we set out to do the very best we can for our delegates and this is the best result to demonstrate this!
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