Learning and skills
Welcome to the toolkit for learning and skills inspection. Here you can find all the information on how we inspect.
What do we inspect?
We inspect a wide range of education and training providers, and can compare standards across the range of publicly funded provision, including those:
...funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families
- Education and training for 14 to 19 year olds in a local area.
- All work-based learning (provided wholly or partly on employers' premises) for people aged 16 or over - for example, apprenticeships and national vocational qualifications.
- Education for people aged 19 or over in further education colleges.
- Learning and e-learning through learndirect, provided by the University for Industry.
- Adult and community learning - for example, local authority-funded evening classes.
...funded by other Government departments
- Training for employment funded by Jobcentre Plus, including the New Deals.
- Work-based and adult learning in prisons and young offenders institutions, at the invitation of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons.
- Training of service men and women from the British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force, as well as Ministry of Defence civil servants.
- Training for probationer constables (in partnership with Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary).