Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
Young Offender Institutions for Young People Aged 18-21
How effective are leadership and management in raising achievement and supporting all learners?

Checklist for quality improvement strategy

  • Does your institution have a written quality improvement strategy or policy?
  • Is it meaningful and substantial, or simply a bland statement of good intentions that anyone could claim?
  • Does the policy or strategy clearly state how you assure the quality of your provision in sufficient detail to be credible?
  • Does it refer to the elements you use in constructing your quality improvement arrangements and show how they fit together?
  • Does the strategy make clear how each of the elements impacts on all the key learning processes?
  • Do staff and vocational instructors understand the strategy and implement it effectively?
  • Does the strategy show the methods for quality improvement? These methods are likely to be different for each prison or institution.

 

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