Awards

The Best Companies Award is given to organisations, via a confidential survey, and asks how good the company is to work for. Key aspects of the survey included the college's leadership, management performance, team working and how fairly it treated employees.

Every organisation that enters Best Companies Accreditation is given a Best Companies Index (BCI) score. This score (on a scale of 1 to 1,000) is defined from employee's responses to the 54 questions with the Best Companies employee survey. Selby College first achieved the one star First Class organisation to work for status in the 2009 Awards.

Selby College was the first and only College in Yorkshire to achieve the award in 2009 and still remains one of the only FE Colleges to hold the award in the United Kingdom, in 2010.

It was developed to ensure that the customer remains at the heart of public service provision and recognises good practice in firms that continually strive to improve the quality of the services they offer and where staff are able to acquire new skills to improve the delivery of that service. In a reaccrediation assessment visit in October 2010 by Customer Service Excellence, the college was again assessed as fully meeting the standard.

In November 2007, Selby College became the first college in Yorkshire and the Humber, and one of only a handful of colleges in England to achieve a full set of Outstanding grades, following its inspection by independent Government inspectors.

The Customer First standard is simply about putting the customer first. It is a quality assurance framework for providers and deliverers of publicly funded business support services.

The framework was developed by funders, providers and customers of business support. The framework is used by an increasing number of strategic and funding bodies to ensure that business support provision delivered under their programmes meets the needs of small and medium sized enterprises.

Selby College is an active provider of services to employers, providing employer workforce development programmes, and other forms of support primarily through its Business Services Department.

Positive About Disabled People is a recognition given by the Government Employment Service to employers, like Selby College, who have agreed to take action to meet five commitments regarding the employment, retention, training and career development of disabled people.

This commitment ensures that disabled people are supported by Selby College and treated fairly at every stage of their selection and employment.

Everyone agrees that people are an organisation's greatest asset, and we all know that for an organisation to succeed everyone has to perform well.

The Investors in People standard has helped Selby College to develop as an organisation, by investing in its staff through a continuous programme of skills and development activities.

The matrix standard is the national quality standard for any organisation that delivers information, advice and/or guidance on learning and work.

Selby College provides information, advice and guidance to external customers including individuals and employers.