Sarah Vickrage of FIN sets out how articulating learner context, utilising the learner voice and enabling learner independence can score with Ofsted on inclusion.
Ask a learner whether their provider is inclusive and their answer is unlikely to reference a policy or strategy. Instead, they will talk about whether staff understand them, whether learning feels accessible, and whether they feel they belong.
As the Chief Inspector recently confirmed in a speech to the sixth form colleges, this learner experience is at the heart of Ofsted’s renewed focus on inclusion under the new Education Inspection Framework. For further education providers, the challenge is no longer to say the right things about inclusion, but to show, through practice and impact, how these barriers to learning are being actively removed.
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