Fast Forward Vocational Training Ltd held its first instructor training session focused on quality, engagement, and learner experience.

Fast Forward Vocational Training and TeamSport Indoor Karting and have teamed up nationally to offer an exciting, engaging, and unique opportunity for young people wishing to acquire vocational skills and qualifications. Fast Forward are specialist training providers focusing on mechanics with an embedded SEMH programme designed and accredited by SYUK the provision has a determination to bridge the gap between disadvantaged youths and their peers to enable success and build positive futures across the UK. Students will have the benefit of developing their skills in a “live” workshop where they will face real world mechanical problems allowing them to be fully immersed in the programme. Students will also be invited to make use of the karting track giving them a real carrot at the end of the session! The nationally recognised Level 1 Motor Vehicle Studies course accredited by SEG will allow schools to offer an off-site vocational training provision to their students in addition, this qualification will assist schools in meeting the Gatsby benchmarks, it will help schools address the needs of each pupil (Gatsby 3), offer an encounter with an employer (Gatsby 5) and offer a meaningful work experience opportunity (Gatsby 6). Some of the benefits are listed below: 1. Students will gain valuable work experience within the motor vehicle industry. 2. Students will receive a nationally recognised qualification upon completion. 3. Your school will be meeting the Gatsby Benchmarks in Careers for these students. 4. It will improve the behaviour and engagement of your selected students in school. 5. Decrease the chances of those students becoming NEET. With links to local colleges and apprenticeship training providers the FFVT & TeamSport training provision has pathways for students to achieve not only at KS4 but into Post 16 and beyond.