A troubled adult residential college has been praised for its efforts in tackling poor safeguarding, in the first FE Commissioner intervention report to be published in over a year.
Shelagh Legrave’s team visited Ruskin College in February following an ‘inadequate’ Ofsted report several months earlier that came after years of turmoil.
Inspectors found that college leaders were “unable to identify and protect learners who may be at risk or need help”, “do not know about significant personal challenges that some vulnerable adults faced while in their care” and were “unable to help staff to keep these learners safe”.
Leaders also acknowledged at the time of Ofsted’s visit that they had failed to follow their internal safeguarding procedures, for example by not ensuring that staff are safe to work with vulnerable adults while waiting for Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks.
