Author: Department for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills
Pages: 38
Year: 2009
Source: Welsh Assembly Government, SSIW, Cathays Park, CF10 3NQ
This document sets out our plans for developing the new QEF and our planned timetable for its implementation. Our stakeholders will have the opportunity to discuss the proposals with us in more detail at a conference to be held in March 2009, and to influence the development of the specific measures and quality assurance arrangements which will underpin the framework. The new Quality and Effectiveness Framework (QEF), developed in close partnership with Estyn, provider representative bodies, learners and other stakeholders, will help us to move the quality of provision to a new level. This ‘new generation’ framework will challenge all providers to continually improve their performance, but will give a greater degree of freedom and flexibility to those which consistently demonstrate their effectiveness. By aligning the new framework with Estyn’s next cycle of inspections starting in 2010, we can use performance information, local intelligence and professional judgements to help drive up quality still further. Meanwhile, providers and learners themselves will have a crucial role to play, working in partnership to learn from and support one another.
