Notices to Improve Issued to Providers

A Notice to Improve is issued to FE colleges where a substantial proportion of provision is identified as inadequate through inspection, as underperforming against the minimum levels of performance or if there is poor financial health and/or control.

Notices triggered by inspection can occur at any point in the inspection cycle. Notices triggered by poor financial health and/or control will be after key assessment points in January and August. Notices triggered by the failure to meet minimum levels of performance are issued in April. This follows the closure of the ILR in March, and moderation at regional level. Moderation for national consistency is then performed by the Learning, Planning and Performance Board. Notices are then issued.

Further details on managing underperformance are available in the LSC publication Identifying and Managing Underperformance and the accompanying annex both published January 2008.

Statutory Intervention Policy

On Wednesday 30 January, the LSC published its proposed statutory intervention policy for consultation.  The consultation began on the date of publication and will complete on 2 May 2008. The policy sets out the proposed actions and processes it will take, if it seeks use the powers of intervention conferred to it under the Further Education and Training Act 2007.

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