Accessibility

Standards Compliance

All pages comply with all priority 1 and 2 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Attempts have been made to comply with priority 3 guidelines.

All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict in accordance with the W3C HTML Validator.

All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. H2 tags are used for main titles, H3 tags for subtitles.

DDA Compliance

This web site is compliant with the UK Disabilities Discriminations Act, where from 1st October 1999 "a service provider has to take reasonable steps to change a practice which makes it unreasonably difficult for disabled people to make use of its services (including web sites)"

Access Keys

We have provided a number of keyboard shortcuts to help users who have difficulty in using pointing devices such as a mouse.

Charnwood uses the UK Government access key system and the following information summarises each of the keyboard shortcut commands available to you.

Our access keys are as follows:

  • s - Skip Navigation
  • 1 - Home
  • 2 - About Us
  • 3 - Courses/Programmes
  • 4 - Recruitment
  • 5 - Bar & Catering
  • 6 - Conference & Meetings
  • 7 - Latest News
  • 8 - Contact Us
  • 9 - Your Account
  • y - Go to top of page

Depending on your browser type use one of the following:

Windows

With Windows-based systems, in general, press the "Alt" key and the relevant access key:

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer  - press "Alt" and the relevant number/letter, then press the "Enter" key
  • Mozilla or Firefox - press "Alt"+"Shift" and the relevant number/letter at the same time
  • Google Chrome - press "Alt" and the relevant number/letter at the same time

Macintosh

With Macintosh-based systems, press the "Ctrl" key and the relevant access key

Accessibility Software

  • JAWS, a screen reader for Windows. A time-limited, downloadable demo is available.
  • Home Page Reader, a screen reader for Windows. A downloadable demo is available.
  • Lynx, a free text-only web browser for blind users with refreshable Braille displays.
  • Opera, a visual browser with many accessibility-related features, including text zooming, user stylesheets, image toggle. Compatible with Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and several other operating systems.
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Charnwood compared nationally are ahead of the game

Managing Partners of a leading Hospitality Training Provider, Charnwood training group, along with its Staff, Learners and National Employers were delighted with the excellent praise received from their recent Ofsted inspection, which graded the National training provider as 'good across the board' and 'when compared on a National scale is ahead of the game'

Charnwood training group provides commercial and government funded work based learning and workforce development training within the catering and hospitality industries.

Of particular merit was the way learners enjoy their training, and statistics prove that most go on to further training or gain promotion at work. In this section 'outcomes for learners', Charnwood was recognised for  'the support and care given to learners is a rare quality to be seen in a work based learning provider and Inspectors commented that 'training officers maintained strong relationships with Learners and showed a genuine passion for training.

Teaching and Learning Provision for 14 -- 16 years old within the Academy are of a 'high quality and extremely well maintained, learning is effective in meeting the needs and interests of all learners.'

Although the Training Provider were expecting an inspection as their last was completed in 2007, they didn't realise they would be inspected under a framework released just 4 weeks prior.

Managing Director, Gerwyn House, nominee for the Inspection stated "In light of this context in which Training Providers are now inspected we are extremely pleased to have achieved such a positive report. These judgements represent the best Ofsted report in Charnwood's history."

The employers whom Charnwood work with gave extremely gratifying feedback and were keen on 'Charnwood's excellent understanding of the hospitality, the support to reduce staff turnover rates and the improved development of learners' customer service skills.'

"We are determined to continue to build on our successes and strengths and are resolute in our determination to make Charnwood the provider and employer of choice." Gerwyn House, Managing Director. 


Click here for Charnwood's full report