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
- FE Commissioner intervention: Kingston Maurward College
- 28 February 2022
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: City College Southampton
- 28 February 2022
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: Northern College for Adult Residential Education
- 8 June 2021
- Decision
Intervention reports and ministerial responses: 2020
- FE Commissioner intervention: Nottingham College
- 9 December 2020
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: City of Wolverhampton College
- 27 November 2020
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: Shrewsbury Colleges Group
- 13 November 2020
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: Greater Brighton Metropolitan College
- 4 November 2020
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: Richmond upon Thames Borough Council
- 23 October 2020
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: Ruskin College
- 23 October 2020
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: East Sussex College Group
- 9 October 2020
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: Coventry College
- 9 October 2020
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: Gateshead College
- 9 October 2020
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: Highbury College, Portsmouth
- 9 October 2020
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: Hull College Group
- 9 October 2020
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: RNN Group
- 9 October 2020
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: Stoke-on-Trent College
- 9 October 2020
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: Birmingham Metropolitan College
- 9 October 2020
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: Richmond upon Thames College
- 11 March 2020
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: National College for Advanced Transport and Infrastructure
- 24 February 2020
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: North Lincolnshire Council
- 25 February 2020
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: St Mary’s College
- 25 February 2020
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: Warrington and Vale Royal College
- 23 January 2020
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: Stoke-on-Trent City Council
- 22 January 2020
- Decision
Intervention reports and ministerial responses: 2019
- FE Commissioner intervention: Cheadle and Marple Sixth Form College
- 5 November 2019
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: Brooklands College
- 15 October 2019
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: Hartlepool College
- 15 October 2019
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: Moulton College (June 2019)
- 15 October 2019
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: St Helens College
- 11 July 2019
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: Hadlow College
- 23 May 2019
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: West Kent and Ashford College
- 23 May 2019
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College
- 22 March 2019
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention summary report: Macclesfield College
- 22 March 2019
- Decision
- FE Commissioner: review of Cornwall’s post-16 provision
- 23 May 2019
- Independent report
- FE Commissioner intervention: North Hertfordshire College
- 31 January 2019
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: John Ruskin College
- 22 January 2019
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: Easton and Otley College
- 18 July 2019
- Decision
Intervention reports and ministerial responses: 2018
- FE Commissioner intervention: West Nottinghamshire College
- 2 November 2018
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: Northumberland College
- 11 October 2018
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: Ruskin College
- 12 July 2018
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: Moulton College
- 25 May 2018
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: Sunderland City Metropolitan borough council
- 25 May 2018
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention report: Barnfield College
- 11 April 2018
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention report: Cadbury Sixth Form College
- 22 March 2018
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention report: Bradford College
- 1 March 2018
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention report: Kirklees College
- 1 March 2018
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention report: The Guildford College Group
- 22 February 2018
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College
- 6 November 2018
- Decision
Intervention reports and ministerial responses: 2017
- FE Commissioner intervention report: Moulton College
- 13 October 2017
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention report: The Cornwall College Group
- 25 August 2017
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention report: Oldham College
- 25 April 2017
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention report: Redcar and Cleveland College
- 20 April 2017
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention report: Wiltshire council
- 20 April 2017
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention report: Stratford-upon-Avon College
- 3 April 2017
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention report: City of Liverpool College
- 30 March 2017
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: Huntingdonshire Regional College
- 28 February 2017
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention report: Epping Forest College
- 28 February 2017
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention report: Hull College group
- 19 January 2017
- Decision
Intervention reports and ministerial responses: 2016
- End of FE Commissioner intervention letter: Warrington Collegiate
- 28 October 2016
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention report: Hereward College
- 12 December 2016
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention report: Tresham College
- 21 November 2016
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention report: Lambeth College
- 3 November 2016
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention report: Mid Cheshire College
- 14 June 2016
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention reports: June 2014 to May 2016
- 17 August 2017
- Decision
Closed interventions
- FE Commissioner intervention: Bracknell and Wokingham College
- 1 March 2019
- Decision
- FE Commissioner intervention: Prospects College of Advanced Technology
- 1 March 2019
- Decision
- End of FE Commissioner intervention: Essex county council
- 25 May 2018
- Decision
- End of FE Commissioner intervention: Gateway Sixth Form College
- 25 May 2018
- Decision
- End of FE Commissioner intervention: Richmond upon Thames College
- 13 October 2017
- Decision
- End of FE Commissioner intervention: Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College
- 13 October 2017
- Decision
- End of FE Commissioner intervention: Wakefield district council
- 13 October 2017
- Decision
- End of FE Commissioner intervention: Stafford College
- 23 June 2017
- Decision
- End of FE Commissioner intervention letter: Stanmore College
- 19 April 2017
- Decision
- End of FE Commissioner intervention: Canterbury College
- 19 April 2017
- Decision
- End of FE Commissioner intervention: West Sussex county council
- 21 March 2017
- Decision
Oversight of FE providers
- College oversight: support and intervention
- 28 July 2021
- Guidance
Published 19 October 2016
Last updated 28 February 2022 – hide all updates
- 28 February 2022Added link to report summary on Kingston Maurward College and City College Southampton.
- 8 June 2021Added link to report summary on Northern College for Adult Residential Education
- 9 December 2020Added ‘FE Commissioner intervention: Nottingham College’.
- 27 November 2020Added the FE Commissioner intervention: City of Wolverhampton College to Intervention reports and ministerial responses: 2020.
- 13 November 2020Added the FE Commissioner intervention: Shrewsbury Colleges Group to Intervention reports and ministerial responses: 2020
- 6 November 2020Added ‘FE Commissioner intervention: Greater Brighton Metropolitan College’.
- 23 October 2020Added ‘FE Commissioner intervention: Richmond upon Thames Borough Council’ and ‘FE Commissioner intervention: Ruskin College’.
- 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.
- 18 March 2020Added ‘FE Commissioner intervention: Richmond upon Thames College’.
- 25 February 2020Added FE Commissioner interventions for North Lincolnshire Council and St Mary’s College.
- 24 February 2020Added ‘FE Commissioner intervention: National College for Advanced Transport and Infrastructure’.
- 7 February 2020Added FE Commissioner intervention reports for Warrington and Vale Royal College and Stoke-on-Trent City Council.
- 5 November 2019Added ‘FE Commissioner intervention: Cheadle and Marple Sixth Form College’.
- 15 October 2019Added intervention reports for Brooklands College, Hartlepool College and Moulton College.
- 11 July 2019Added ‘FE Commissioner intervention: St Helens College’.
- 23 May 2019Added FE Commissioner intervention reports for Hadlow College and West Kent and Ashford College.
- 22 March 2019Added ‘FE Commissioner intervention: North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College’ and ‘FE Commissioner intervention summary report: Macclesfield College’.
- 8 March 2019Added the FE Commissioner’s review of Cornwall’s post-16 provision.
- 1 March 2019’FE Commissioner intervention: Bracknell and Wokingham College’ and ‘FE Commissioner intervention: Prospects College of Advanced Technology’ moved to closed interventions.
- 7 February 2019Added reports and ministerial responses for Easton and Otley College, John Ruskin College and North Hertfordshire College.
- 2 November 2018Added ‘FE Commissioner intervention: West Nottinghamshire College’ and ‘FE Commissioner intervention: Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College’.
- 11 October 2018Added ‘FE Commissioner intervention: Northumberland College’.
- 12 July 2018Added FE Commissioner intervention report: Ruskin College
- 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.
- 11 April 2018Added FE Commissioner intervention report: Barnfield College
- 22 March 2018Updated page text to reflect the expansion of the FE Commissioner role.
- 22 March 2018Added FE Commissioner intervention report for Cadbury Sixth Form College.
- 1 March 2018Added FE Commissioner intervention report for Bradford College.
- 1 March 2018Added FE Commissioner intervention report for Kirklees College.
- 22 February 2018Added FE Commissioner intervention report: The Guildford College Group.
- 8 February 2018Added FE Commissioner’s intervention reports on The Cornwall College Group, and Bracknell and Wokingham College, and the Skills Minister’s responses.
- 13 October 2017Added Richmond upon Thames College, Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College, and Wakefield metropolitan district council to ‘Closed interventions’ list.
- 19 July 2017Added FE Commissioner’s intervention report on Moulton College and the Skills Minister’s response.
- 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.
- 23 June 2017Added letter ending FE Commissioner intervention for Stanmore College and moved ‘FE Commissioner intervention report: Stafford College’ to ‘closed interventions’.
- 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.
- 24 March 2017Added FE Commissioner’s intervention reports on Huntingdon College and the Skills Minister’s response.
- 17 March 2017Added letter ending FE Commissioner intervention for Warrington Collegiate.
- 16 March 2017Added FE Commissioner’s intervention reports on Tresham College and Epping Forest College and Skills Minister’s responses.
- 24 February 2017Added the FE Commissioner’s intervention report on Lambeth College and the Apprenticeships and Skills Minister’s response.
- 23 February 2017Added Hereward College FE Commissioner assessment summary.
- 16 February 2017Added Canterbury College FE Commissioner assessment summary.
- 10 February 2017Added the FE Commissioner’s intervention report on the Hull College group and the Apprenticeships and Skills Minister’s response.
- 19 October 2016First published.
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