southend adult community college, belfairs centre
Leigh On Sea
Southend Adult Community College (SACC) is Southend Borough Council’s provider
of adult education, providing education and training to more than 5,000
learners. SACC provides 100s of part-time leisure courses, English, maths,
employability courses, traineeships, vocational qualifications, CPD and industry
specific training for adults and for young people 16+ apprenticeships and
full-time vocational programmes. SACC provides community outreach provision and
family learning in local community venues and employee training and assessment
on employer premises. SACC has three activity centres, its main Southchurch
Centre, an adult centre at Belfairs Academy in Leigh and a specialist centre for
young adults with complex and profound learning difficulties and disabilities in
Westcliff. At our last Ofsted inspection, SACC was judged for the second time as
a good college with outstanding features. Key findings are: • success rates have
improved over the last few years and many are well above national rates •
learners develop good practical, vocational and employability skills. They make
good progress in developing these skills • learners on study programmes do well.
The college has made a significant contribution to reducing the number of young
people in the borough who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) •
staff are particularly effective at finding good work placements for learners on
employability programmes. These placements relate directly to learners’ aims and
provide good workplace experience • teachers use their professional skills and
knowledge well to help learners relate their studies to the world of work and
gain employment or promotion • staff, at all levels, create good partnerships
with a range of agencies. They use these partnerships well to help learners
develop a range of useful skills • leaders work well to create, and monitor the
effectiveness of a curriculum that meets the needs of learners and the local
community.
