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Ensuring the quality of apprenticeships Presentation to the Sussex Council of Training Providers David Sampson, Institute for Apprenticeships 16 November 2017 1

Employer-led quality = AN APPRENTICESHIP 20% off-the-job training 2

IFA Core functions – drive apprenticeship quality by: • Developing and maintaining quality criteria for the approval of apprenticeship standards and assessment plans. • Supporting the development of standards and assessment plans by employer groups and reviewing and approving them. • Reviewing/approving standards and assessment plans. • Advising on the maximum amount of Government funding that should be assigned to each apprenticeship standard. • Establishing and overseeing the External Quality Assurance of all end- point-assessment + providing EQA via Open Awards where needed 3

The Board Antony Jenkins, Chair Dame Fiona Kendrick Dr Katherine Barclay Toby Peyton-Jones Bev Robinson Chairman and CEO, Director, UK Skills, HR Director, Siemens UK Principal and Chief Executive, Nestle UK and Ireland Worldwide R&D, Pfizer Ltd and Northern Europe Blackpool and The Fylde College Lieutenant General Dame Asha Khemka DBE Robin Millar CBE Paul Cadman (Retd) Sir Gerry Berragan, KBE. Principal and Chief Executive, Chairman, Blue Raincoat HR Director, CB, Adjutant General, West Nottinghamshire Chrysalis Group Walter Smith Fine Foods Ltd. the Army (2012-2015) College Group

IFA employer-led structure The Institute for Apprenticeships Board Apprentice 15 route Panels Stakeholder Quality Alliance Panel Reference Panel Agriculture, Agriculture, Agriculture, Business & Business & Catering & Catering & Education & Childcare & Childcare & Creative & Creative & Environmental Environmental Environmental Construction Construction Digital Digital Administrative Administrative Hospitality Hospitality Education Childcare Education Design Design & Animal care & Animal care & Animal care Legal, Legal, Sales, Sales, Engineering & Hair & Health & Health & Protective Protective Care Transport Transport Finance & Finance & Marketing & Marketing & Social care Manufacturing Beauty Science Science Services Services Services & logistics & logistics Accounting Accounting Procurement Procurement Peer reviewers Trailblazer groups – developing standards and assessment plans 5

Standards development - how the process works Proposal Apprenticeship IfA ‘Triage’ Route Approvals & Standard Policy Trailblazer Panels Funding Groups (and peer EPA Plan Committee review) Funding Occupational Sector Overall • • • expertise expertise apprenticeship Reviews programme • 6

Progress so far Launched a new website - first step Recruited employers to the Board, towards offering employers and committees and panels across the 15 stakeholders an improved digital occupational routes - essential to being interface with the Institute employer-led. (www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/ Run eight approval cycles Established external for new proposals, standards quality assurance and assessment plans, and arrangements for all provided the DfE with advice standards in operation . on funding bands. 200 54 342

How do we ensure smaller employers’ voices are heard? Policy and guidance need to be clearer Employers want more and simpler The end-to-end support and process of developing understanding from the a new standard takes Institute too long challenges T echnical We need to provide Education – better support for post April 2018 for IfA Trailblazers in writing Assessment Plans Policy and high level criteria Sector expertise at need to be the basis of what the Institute could be we do from the start. Some of stronger Intensively support the more detailed rules are employers to develop More context is too constraining a standard in a single required to explain workshop why policy is the way it is 8

Refining, clarifying and simplifying policy and guidance, where Engaging earlier with possible employer groups to help them with their Working to understand Piloting ‘intensive’ proposals and respond to the workshops for challenges faced by Trailblazers to speed Trailblazers in the process up development Digital end to Improvements end process Running webinars for monitoring for Trailblazers starting increased new stages of the planned transparency process Creating a “launch Intuitive standards/EPA plan pack” for new templates to help Trailblazers Trailblazers create compliant submissions Identifying best practice examples of Streamlining our standards & EPA plans approvals processes 9

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