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Fircroft College of Adult Education
Telephone: 0121 472 0116 Email: [email protected]
Address: 1018 Bristol Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham, B29 6LH
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Quality Mark Information

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Ofsted Good         

At their October 2017 Inspection, Ofsted judged that Fircroft remains a Good Provider. They said we have:

  • Very high achievement rates
  • Strong links with partners
  • Clear focus on those who are most disadvantaged
  • Support staff with good knowledge
  • Very strong emphasis on involving learners

 You can read their report here: https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/inspection-reports/find-inspection-report/provider/ELS/130467

 


Matrix      

Matrix is the quality standard for information, advice and guidance - http://matrixstandard.com/

Their report says we have 3 real strengths:

  • “passion for delivering an effective social justice agenda”
  • “strong, effective, dynamic and developmental partnership working”
  • “enable clients to make well-informed and realistic decisions”


Disability Confident 

 

 

As a Disability Confident ‘Committed’ employer, Fircroft is committed to:

  • Actively looking to attract and recruit disabled people
  • Providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process
  • Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
  • Proactively offering and making reasonable adjustments as required
  • Ensuring employees have appropriate disability equality awareness
  • Promoting a culture of being Disability Confident
  • Supporting employees to manage their disabilities or health conditions
  • Ensuring there are no barriers to the development and progression of disabled staff
  • Ensuring managers are aware of how they can support staff who are sick or absent from work
  • Valuing and listening to feedback from disabled staff
  • Providing occupational health services if required

You can find out more about Disability Confident here.


Mindful Employer

The Charter for Employers who are Positive about Mental Health is a voluntary agreement seeking to support employers in working within the spirit of its positive approach. The Charter is one element of the MINDFUL EMPLOYER® initiative which is aimed at increasing awareness of mental health in the workplace and supporting businesses in recruiting and retaining staff.

A wide range of employers from all over the UK are involved in the initiative which gives businesses and organisations easier access to information, practical support, training, networks and assistance from other employers.

MINDFUL EMPLOYER is a UK-wide initiative run by Workways, part of Devon Partnership NHS Trust. More information at www.mindfulemployer.net

 

 

Published: 18th December, 2017

Updated: 1st January, 2021

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Student Charter

Complaints and Compliments Procedure and Forms

Prevention Duty

Freedom of Information Policy

Data Protection Policy

Equality and Diversity and Inclusion Policy

Financial Statement 2016/17

Financial Statement 2017/18 

Financial Statement 2018/19 

Financial Statement 2019/20

Whistleblowing Policy

Fircroft College Strategy 2019-2024 

Safeguarding Policy and Procedure 2021 

Admissions Policy

Published: 4th January, 2018

Updated: 9th March, 2021

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Research

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  • Lenehan.M (2017) Residential Adult Education: Transforming the lives of educationally, socially and economically disadvantaged adults. Fircroft College
  • Clancy and Holford (2017) Life-changing things happen. University of Nottingham
  • Adriaanse, Barnes and Hughes (2016) Adult education, too important to be left to chance. University of Warwick
  • Adriaanse and Hughes (2017) Adult Education: Important for Health and Well-being. University of Warwick
  • inTuition Research Supplement.Issue.3 (2018)
  • Conway-Jones, M. (2019) "Better Citizens”: levels of citizenship and their significance for an adult education provider.  In proceedings of 48th SCUTREA conference.  University of Nottingham.

Published: 29th January, 2018

Updated: 16th September, 2019

Author: Naomi Minto

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