Future Finders Employability College

Overview

Future Finders Employability College is a small specialist college in Oldham providing supported internships for students with special educational needs and disabilities. The inspection judged the overall effectiveness as ‘Good’, with ‘Outstanding’ ratings for behaviour and attitudes and personal development. Leaders have successfully improved the quality of education since the previous inspection, creating an environment where students feel respected and are well-prepared for employment.

Strengths

• Staff have created an “extremely positive and respectful culture” where learning environments are “highly purposeful, welcoming and calm.”
• Students demonstrate high attendance and punctuality, learning to behave professionally and becoming “work-ready quickly.”
• The curriculum includes “ambitious and purposeful supported internships” that align with students’ aspirations and local skills needs.
• Teachers use “innovative methods” to reinforce literacy and reading skills, helping students develop accuracy and fluency.
• Students participate in democratic activities through the ‘student parliament’, developing leadership skills and a sense of responsibility.

Areas to improve

• Ensure that teachers and job coaches utilise detailed information from half-termly reviews more effectively to inform teaching.
• Establish a clear demarcation between achievements made at previous educational settings and those required at the college, particularly regarding EHC plan outcomes.

Safeguarding

The report states that “the arrangements for safeguarding are effective.”