Risk-based IQA

Risk-based IQA sampling with explainable coverage

Plan, select, record and sign off internal quality assurance across learners, assessors, programmes, methods and risk factors.

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Ofsted Readiness (SAR)

Self-Assessment Report · Evaluated Nov 2025

Safeguarding: Met
Provision Grades
Internal 5-point scale evaluation against EIF criteria.
Quality of education
Strong
Behaviour and attitudes
Exceptional
Personal development
Expected
Leadership and management
Strong
Apprenticeships
Strong
Key Strengths
  • High achievement rates across digital standards.
  • Strong employer engagement in tripartite reviews.
  • Robust safeguarding culture and rapid escalation.
Areas for Improvement
  • Consistent recording of 20% OTJ across all cohorts.
  • Deepening contextualised English and Maths delivery.

Illustrative IQA sampling and coverage view with sample data.

Definition

What is risk-based IQA sampling software?

Risk-based IQA sampling software helps quality teams build a defensible sampling plan that balances coverage and risk across assessors, learners, programmes, assessment methods, sites and other relevant factors.

How does Journey select work for IQA sampling?

Journey applies configurable, human-controlled sampling rules and explains why each candidate was selected. Quality staff can see coverage gaps, conflicts, workloads, findings, actions and sign-off history without turning the sampling algorithm into an unreviewable black box.

Brings together what used to be separate tools

Sampling spreadsheetsSeparate observation logsManual coverage checks

Configurable strategy

Define coverage across learners, staff, programmes, sites, employers, methods and verified risk factors.

Explainable selection

Every candidate shows the coverage and risk reasons behind the recommendation.

Findings and actions

Record evidence, development actions, follow-up and controlled sign-off in one history.

Coverage analytics

Reveal gaps, repeated findings, overdue actions and quality trends before the cycle closes.

Last reviewed: July 2026

Coverage that can be defended

A sampling record is only useful if a reviewer can understand how the plan covered the provision and why particular work was selected. Journey keeps the rule, selection reason, evidence, finding, action and sign-off together in one tenant-scoped history.

Sources & further reading

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Funding-safe and audit-ready by design

Built so your data, your funding and your audit trail hold up

Hard tenant isolation

Every record is scoped to your organisation on each read and write — one provider can never see another's data.

Append-only audit log

Every state change is recorded against the real person who made it, so the history stands up at audit.

Versioned DfE rule packs

Funding is computed server-side against the right year for each start date — 2024/25 and 2025/26, and built to adopt the 2026/27 pack now published by the DWP.

Governed AI

AI is metered per tenant, prompts are scrubbed of learner PII and outputs are validated, falling back gracefully.

ISO 27001 & Cyber Essentials

Built and operated by a UK company to externally-audited information-security standards.

Your data and employers stay yours

No lock-in: export your data whenever you like, and your employer relationships always remain yours.

Journey is independent software and is not DfE or Ofsted approved. It does not guarantee funding or inspection outcomes.

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