Who is this template for?
This template is designed for leaders of work-based learning providers in Wales, including Headteachers and Heads of Service. It provides a comprehensive structure to guide your whole-setting self-evaluation, ensuring a thorough and effective review of your provision.
Why use this template?
This template provides a clear, comprehensive framework to ensure your self-evaluation is rigorous, effective, and fully aligned with Estyn’s inspection handbook for work-based learning providers.
- Ensure Inspection Readiness: It provides a clear, structured framework that mirrors the official inspection framework, ensuring your self-evaluation is comprehensive and inspection-ready.
- Save Valuable Time: It provides a ready-made structure for your whole-setting review, removing the need to start from a blank page and interpret complex guidance documents yourself.
- Promote an Evidence-Based Culture: The iAbacus process prompts you to support every judgement with reliable evidence, such as performance data, observations, and learner feedback, ensuring your self-evaluation is robust and accurate.
- Drive Meaningful Improvement: Moving beyond a simple audit, the template guides you through analysing the factors helping and hindering progress, leading directly to a clear, actionable improvement plan.
- Foster Collaboration and Clarity: It provides a shared framework for your leadership team to build a collective and accurate picture of provision, fostering shared ownership of the improvement journey.
How does it work?
This template uses the intuitive, step-by-step iAbacus process to guide you from reflection to action. You will evaluate your setting's performance across the five key inspection areas from the Estyn handbook, making judgements against the following levels: Unsatisfactory, Adequate, Good, Excellent.
The key areas evaluated are:
- Standards
- Standards and progress overall
- Standards and progress of specific groups
- Standards and progress in skills
- Wellbeing and attitudes to learning
- Wellbeing
- Attitudes to learning
- Teaching and learning experiences
- Quality of teaching
- Provision (breadth, balance, appropriateness)
- Provision for skills
- Care, support and guidance
- Learning support (incl. tracking, monitoring)
- Personal development
- Safeguarding
- Leadership and management
- Quality and effectiveness of leaders
- Self-evaluation/improvement planning
- Professional learning
- Use of resources
Clear, Professional Reporting
With a single click, you can export your completed evaluation into a polished, visually compelling PDF report. This is the perfect document to present to an inspector as a summary of the setting's self-evaluation, demonstrating a robust and transparent approach to improvement planning with all judgements backed by clear evidence.
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How to Get Started
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