Education/OFSTED

Education/OFSTED

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EDUCATION SECTOR

BKR Care Consultancy offers mock inspection and support services to schools, Learning Difference Schools and children’s residential services across the UK. With experts in their fields on hand to support organisational improvement or development.

BKRCC have a number of consultants that have worked as Ofsted Inspectors as well as teachers and education specialists.

BKRCC can also offer business support to schools to review costs and explore revenue streams in the current economic climate. BKR Care Consultancy are also able to offer independent reviews of complaints or investigations where internal options are exhausted or where families, or employees, have lost faith in the independence of the internal processes.

Case Studies

BKR Care Consultancy were contracted by a London Borough Council to support the development of a residential wing providing respite care to the students of a Learning Difference school.

BKR Care Consultancy advised on the required designs of the service, development of all policies and procedures as well as identifying suitable staffing levels and costings as well as supporting the registration process. The resulting service operational today supports children and their parents through respite placements, enhancing skills stays and provides day care during school holidays maintaining a familiar environment for the children.

A small group of children’s services were in difficulty in three of their sites with Ofsted and called in their legal team to assist them. The legal team commissioned BKR Care Consultancy to refute the allegations made against the services by Ofsted as expert witnesses. The services were scheduled for a First Tier Tribunal and BKR Care Consultancy were able to negotiate a stay, and later a withdrawal, of the case against the services.

A school approached BKR Care Consultancy after serious safeguarding failures by the headmaster in relation to two siblings were identified. The parents had lost faith in the school and its Governors and BKR Care Consultancy were commissioned to conduct and independent investigation into the complaints raised by the parents. BKR Care Consultancy met with all parties and completed the investigation before feeding back to all parties. The school recognised that the parents required support to move the children to a new school and requested BKR Care Consultancy support the family in doing so. BKR Care Consultancy successfully supported the parents in their appeal for a mid-year transfer for the children to a school that initially turned down the application due to oversubscribing concerns at the chosen school. Both children were transferred to the new school with a comprehensive handover report of their pastoral care needs and both have
reengaged with school life.

Queensmills School
We commissioned BKRCC to help set up a children’s
home. We found them to be very knowledgeable and
experienced in both Ofsted and CQC legislation.