Auchenharvie Community Learning receives outstanding HMIE Report
North Ayrshire Council's Community Learning and Development Service was today celebrating three top awards for outstanding performance in a Government report on community learning in its area.
In an HMIE report, Auchenharvie Learning Community in Stevenston has received an outstanding report. Praised in particular by the inspectors for its "excellent range of quality learning opportunities for young people".
The inspectors said that despite facing a number of significant challenges in term of deprivation, unemployment and poor health, the learning community around Auchenharvie showed particular strengths including being "well-targeted, inclusive, responsive and effective".
HMIE awards grades in five performance categories and Auchenharvie received the top "Excellent" grade in three and the second top "Very Good" in the other two.
The report marks Auchenharvie's performance as "outstanding and sector leading" in its impact on young people, its impact on adult learners and in its service improvement. It notes that it also shows "major strengths" in its impact of capacity building on communities and in performance improvements.
Inspectors praised North Ayrshire staff and their youth work partners for their "belief in supporting young people to succeed" and for their use of a wide range of accreditation awards.
Adult learners within the community, says the report, are "progressing and achieving well" thanks to a "range of inclusive and accessible learning opportunities".
Carol Kirk, North Ayrshire Council's Corporate Director of Education, said: "The level of HMIE grades awarded to Auchenharvie are unprecedented and mark out our learning community as amongst the best in the country. Congratulations go to all staff and partner organisations involved."
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