Achievement for All Impact Report 2014 - 2015

Working With Post 16
Achieving Further is the Post 16
programme from Achievement for
All. Following our successful Post 16
two-term feasibility study (2013/14)
Achievement for All identified a number
of key issues in the further education
(FE) sector where the Achieving
Further programme could support
improvement.
• Proficiency in English and maths
are fundamental to young people’s
employment and education
prospects. Yet less than 50% of
students are proficient by the age of
16.
• Within the FE sector there is still a
shortage of outstanding teaching
and learning (only a small number
of colleges were rated ‘outstanding’
overall in 2012/13 and even fewer
have achieved outstanding for
Teaching and Learning).
• Arrangements to support transition
are poor and system wide incentives
to put young people through the ‘path
of least resistance’ do not benefit
young people.
• These challenges are magnified for
those young people with the most
severe and complex needs who
often participate within independent
specialist colleges.
We successfully approached The
Blagrave Trust for a grant to pilot a new,
high impact programme, ‘Achieving
Further’ to address the critical issues
outlined through a programme of
activity in 22 further education colleges
serving rural and coastal communities
and particular pockets of deprivation
within Berkshire, Hampshire, Sussex
and Wiltshire. Over three years,
approximately 1,320 vulnerable
and disadvantaged students, 120
professionals and 1,000 families and
carers will participate in the programme.
BENEFICIARY
ACHIEVING
FURTHER
Settings (All) 28
All Students
(Indirect - Based on the numbers
in the college with SEN)
2, 800
Target Pupils (Direct) 840
Parents / Carers (Direct) 1, 512
Teachers (Direct) 280
College Leaders (Direct) 56
Wider Professionals
(Direct)
280
Total People Impacted 5, 768