Quality Assurance and Improvement Support
Quality assurance and improvement in teaching and learning is a fundamental value for Cheshire County Council’s Lifelong Learning Service. We believe that learners are entitled to a high quality learning experience wherever they are learning; therefore, our policy is to adopt a ‘best practice’ role with regard to the promotion of high quality teaching and learning by applying the following four principles:
- Our partner providers are responsible for delivering a quality learning experience.
- Our partners have suitable and sufficient quality assurance arrangements in place to support learners.
- Where QA arrangements are not sufficient, we will provide the support necessary to raise standards.
- We will promote continuous improvement in our partners through support and challenge as appropriate.
Many of our partners are small community and voluntary organisations who may be in the very early stages of developing their Quality Assurance systems and look to us to support them in building this capacity. We will provide QA proforma and other key resources to support all aspects of learning that partners can then adapt to meet their own particular needs whilst ensuring a basic consistency of approach across all our partners.
Cheshire County Council’s ACL Service works within a Quality Assurance and Improvement Framework which is applied flexibly according to need to both partners who have their own fully established and recognised systems and those that need additional support from us to develop their own framework. In practical terms, this means that we:
- Build quality assurance and improvement into contractual arrangements.
- Provide support material for our programmes and explain our basic requirements for managing and quality assuring these learning programmes.
- Monitor the quality assurance arrangements of those partners that have existing and established quality assurance arrangements.
All our partner learning providers have full support from the ACL team including:
- Named Development Officer as point of contact for all support matters
- Range of proforma to support all aspects of planning and delivering learning
- Application of the Cheshire County Council’s ACL Quality Assurance and Improvement Framework
To contact us regarding Quality Matters contact clare.latham@cheshire.gov.uk
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