Education Other Than At School (EOTAS)
Quality assurance of Education Other Than At School (EOTAS)
Quality assurance in Education Other Than At School (EOTAS) provision ensures that all educational experiences delivered outside mainstream settings meet rigorous standards of teaching, safeguarding, and learner outcomes.
We regularly monitor and evaluate EOTAS packages of education to ensure they are tailored to individual needs, promote engagement and align with the local authority's broader educational goals.
Through robust quality assurance processes, including site visits, progress reviews, and stakeholder feedback, we maintain high standards across all EOTAS providers and ensure accountability.
| Timescales | Persons responsible | Activities undertaken | Reporting |
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| Weekly | Vulnerable Learners Team (VLT) |
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| Weekly | Alternative Provision (AP) Team | Ensure we have received tutor reports and copies of pupil work | Tutor reports to be saved in child files (in folder 12 EOTAS) |
| Half termly | Specialist Teachers and Home and Hospital teachers | Work Scrutiny. Random sample of 10 pupils across age ranges | Completed work scrutiny proforma saved in AP folder and shared with Service Leads VLT and AP |
| Half termly | Alternative Provision Caseworker, Vulnerable Learners Team | Overall attendance summary for all EOTAS pupils including overall absence, persistent absence and severe absence | Summary shared with Service Leads AP and VLT |
| Termly | Alternative Provision Caseworker, Vulnerable Learners Team and EOTAS caseworker | Review all Learning Plans including progress and outcomes | All reviewed new learning plans to be saved with new dates in child files (in folder 12 EOTAS). All previous plans to remain saved as separate documents |
| Annually | Alternative Provision Team and Specialist Teachers | Quality Assurance of providers | Quality Assurance reports saved by Service Lead AP |
