WHAT WE OFFER

Our Services

What We Offer & How It Can Support Partners Achieve The Success They Seek

Bespoke

We align our work to respond and flex to your individual needs

Progressive

Our work develops in line with key review points and measures

Challenge

We meet the challenge of audit impact head on and break through the barriers 

Accoutable

All work is accountable, defined by regulatory standards and strategic improvement plans, and reported on in line with agreed targets and success indicators

Ofsted Preparation & Support

  • Preparing practitioners before, during and after the inspection.
  • Confidence building around what may be viewed in files and what questions may be asked of practitioners.
  • Facilitating after interview feedback and themes from practitioners to senior management during an inspection.

Audit Resource Package

  • Templates in line with Ofsted requirements and tailored to the ILACS grade descriptors.
  • Moderation QA templates and tracker.
  • One page overview of your last Ofsted inspection
  • Audit framework support
  • Training in respect of all of the above

Project Work (tailored to a specific need including Exploitation)

  • This could include a specific service area
  • This could include specific themes such as Historical Exploitation across Children's and Adult Social Care

Multi-Agency Safeguarding Partnership Auditing

  • Create audit framework.
  • Create audit templates.
  • Set up multi-agency audit streams of work.
  • Provide audit training.
  • Support with reporting.

Audit training programme work stream

  • Induction to auditing
  • How to view audit and why it is important
  • Different formats of auditing
  • How audit links in with day-to-day practice and improvement
  • Understanding the Ofsted approach
  • Wider training packages
  • Programme of work to train and develop internal auditors with a mechanism to grade auditor’s audits to evidence improving audit practice

Internal audit programme work stream

  • Across a whole service or just one with in-depth reporting
  • Audit to Excellence works with your existing audit resources
  • Develop audit templates
  • Develop tracking mechanisms
  • Advise on processes and setting up
  • Support development of Audit Framework
  • Advice on reporting
  • Closing the loop – process development to link internal audit programme with wider improvement programme, training and re-evaluation
  • Wider training advice following audit
  • Holistic approach
  • Range of sources to provide a robust evidence base

Audit to Excellence can Lead or Support with:

  • Audit training
  • Building a team profile
  • Building team plans that link with wider improvement planning 
  • Various forms of audit
  • Audit template design
  • Programme development
  • Confidence building around Ofsted visits
  • Audit framework
  • Evidence based recommendations
  • Self-Evaluation
  • Training
  • Tracking mechanisms
  • Surveys