Camphill Wakefield (Pennine Camphill Community Ltd)

Overview: Camphill Wakefield (Pennine Camphill Community Ltd) is an independent specialist college providing further education and training for learners with high needs aged 16-25. The college has a highly inclusive culture, where learners with high needs can access their curriculum, participate in sessions, and thrive in a friendly and welcoming environment.

Strengths:

• Leaders and staff quickly identify learners' needs through extensive engagement with relevant stakeholders.
• Leaders provide high-quality training for all staff and use data well to monitor learners' progress carefully.
• Dedicated staff provide learners with tailored careers guidance in line with their aspirations and education, health and care plan outcomes.
• Learners develop the skills and behaviours they need to progress successfully to adulthood, including accessing the community safely and living independently.
• Staff provide effective communication aids to learners who are non-verbal to enable them to participate in lessons, communicate with friends, and make choices.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders should provide further professional development for teaching staff focused on pedagogy and the craft of teaching.
• Leaders should ensure consistent use of age-appropriate resources and activities.
• Leaders should ensure consistent use of high-quality support where staff allow learners sufficient time to process and respond to questions and complete their work independently.

Safeguarding: The safeguarding standards are met, meaning that leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfil their specific responsibilities and have established an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon, and managed.