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Further Education Commissioner intervention reports

Summaries of the FE Commissioner’s intervention reports and responses from the Minister for Apprenticeships and Skills.

Reports and responses are organised by the year in which they were published – some inspections may have taken place in the previous calendar year. Once the Minister for Apprenticeships and Skills agrees to remove an FE provider from intervention, it is moved to the ‘closed’ section.

Intervention reports and ministerial responses: 2021

Intervention reports and ministerial responses: 2020

Intervention reports and ministerial responses: 2019

Intervention reports and ministerial responses: 2018

Intervention reports and ministerial responses: 2017

Intervention reports and ministerial responses: 2016

Closed interventions

Oversight of FE providers

Published 19 October 2016
Last updated 28 February 2022 – hide all updates

  1. 28 February 2022Added link to report summary on Kingston Maurward College and City College Southampton.
  2. 8 June 2021Added link to report summary on Northern College for Adult Residential Education
  3. 9 December 2020Added ‘FE Commissioner intervention: Nottingham College’.
  4. 27 November 2020Added the FE Commissioner intervention: City of Wolverhampton College to Intervention reports and ministerial responses: 2020.
  5. 13 November 2020Added the FE Commissioner intervention: Shrewsbury Colleges Group to Intervention reports and ministerial responses: 2020
  6. 6 November 2020Added ‘FE Commissioner intervention: Greater Brighton Metropolitan College’.
  7. 23 October 2020Added ‘FE Commissioner intervention: Richmond upon Thames Borough Council’ and ‘FE Commissioner intervention: Ruskin College’.
  8. 9 October 2020Added reports and ministerial responses for Birmingham Metropolitan College, Coventry College, East Sussex College Group, Gateshead College, Highbury College, Hull College Group, RNN Group and Stoke-on-Trent College.
  9. 18 March 2020Added ‘FE Commissioner intervention: Richmond upon Thames College’.
  10. 25 February 2020Added FE Commissioner interventions for North Lincolnshire Council and St Mary’s College.
  11. 24 February 2020Added ‘FE Commissioner intervention: National College for Advanced Transport and Infrastructure’.
  12. 7 February 2020Added FE Commissioner intervention reports for Warrington and Vale Royal College and Stoke-on-Trent City Council.
  13. 5 November 2019Added ‘FE Commissioner intervention: Cheadle and Marple Sixth Form College’.
  14. 15 October 2019Added intervention reports for Brooklands College, Hartlepool College and Moulton College.
  15. 11 July 2019Added ‘FE Commissioner intervention: St Helens College’.
  16. 23 May 2019Added FE Commissioner intervention reports for Hadlow College and West Kent and Ashford College.
  17. 22 March 2019Added ‘FE Commissioner intervention: North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College’ and ‘FE Commissioner intervention summary report: Macclesfield College’.
  18. 8 March 2019Added the FE Commissioner’s review of Cornwall’s post-16 provision.
  19. 1 March 2019’FE Commissioner intervention: Bracknell and Wokingham College’ and ‘FE Commissioner intervention: Prospects College of Advanced Technology’ moved to closed interventions.
  20. 7 February 2019Added reports and ministerial responses for Easton and Otley College, John Ruskin College and North Hertfordshire College.
  21. 2 November 2018Added ‘FE Commissioner intervention: West Nottinghamshire College’ and ‘FE Commissioner intervention: Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College’.
  22. 11 October 2018Added ‘FE Commissioner intervention: Northumberland College’.
  23. 12 July 2018Added FE Commissioner intervention report: Ruskin College
  24. 25 May 2018Added FE Commissioner intervention reports for Moulton college, PROCAT, Sunderland council. Moved Essex county council and Gateway Sixth Form College to closed interventions.
  25. 11 April 2018Added FE Commissioner intervention report: Barnfield College
  26. 22 March 2018Updated page text to reflect the expansion of the FE Commissioner role.
  27. 22 March 2018Added FE Commissioner intervention report for Cadbury Sixth Form College.
  28. 1 March 2018Added FE Commissioner intervention report for Bradford College.
  29. 1 March 2018Added FE Commissioner intervention report for Kirklees College.
  30. 22 February 2018Added FE Commissioner intervention report: The Guildford College Group.
  31. 8 February 2018Added FE Commissioner’s intervention reports on The Cornwall College Group, and Bracknell and Wokingham College, and the Skills Minister’s responses.
  32. 13 October 2017Added Richmond upon Thames College, Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College, and Wakefield metropolitan district council to ‘Closed interventions’ list.
  33. 19 July 2017Added FE Commissioner’s intervention report on Moulton College and the Skills Minister’s response.
  34. 6 July 2017Added a letter ending FE Commissioner intervention for Canterbury College. Added a report and letter for Wiltshire council, Redcar and Cleveland College and Oldham College.
  35. 23 June 2017Added letter ending FE Commissioner intervention for Stanmore College and moved ‘FE Commissioner intervention report: Stafford College’ to ‘closed interventions’.
  36. 12 April 2017Added FE Commissioner’s intervention reports on Essex county council and Stratford-upon-Avon college, and letter ending FE Commissioner intervention for West Sussex county council.
  37. 24 March 2017Added FE Commissioner’s intervention reports on Huntingdon College and the Skills Minister’s response.
  38. 17 March 2017Added letter ending FE Commissioner intervention for Warrington Collegiate.
  39. 16 March 2017Added FE Commissioner’s intervention reports on Tresham College and Epping Forest College and Skills Minister’s responses.
  40. 24 February 2017Added the FE Commissioner’s intervention report on Lambeth College and the Apprenticeships and Skills Minister’s response.
  41. 23 February 2017Added Hereward College FE Commissioner assessment summary.
  42. 16 February 2017Added Canterbury College FE Commissioner assessment summary.
  43. 10 February 2017Added the FE Commissioner’s intervention report on the Hull College group and the Apprenticeships and Skills Minister’s response.
  44. 19 October 2016First published.

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