Why become a member?
- AELP has played a leading role in the professionalisation of the welfare-to-work workforce.
Member Publications - Connect
Connect is available to download here.
Member Showcase
We are introducing a new free service - 'Member Showcase'. This will appear first in Connect #100, and then be updated in subsequent issues. We will also provide a dedicated presence on the AELP homepage with a link to this specially created Member Showcase page - at no charge!
QCF Unit Funding Trials
This page contains the evaluation of the Unit Funding Trials that a small group of independent training providers took part in between May and July 2011 plus a Guide to Funding Unit Delivery. The funding guide is designed to support providers in the utilisation of funding and the management of employer investment for the delivery of QCF units. It includes case studies featuring 6 of the providers who took part in the trials.
HR Forum
The HR Forum Topic Page aims to support the activities of ALP’s HR Forum. The HR Forum has been set up to support Members, both large and small, in the development of their HR practices.
Equality & Diversity
This topic section aims to provide useful information and links regarding Equality and Diversity policy and issues likely to be of interest for members.
This will include information on Equality and Diversity projects that ALP are directly involved in or where ALP are able to signpost members to partner organisations that can provide useful information and support to learning and skills sector providers.
The Learning and Skills Improvement Service
Welcome to the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) topic webpage; over the coming months, ALP and (LSIS) will be collaborating on communications activity to the ALP membership. The purpose of this activity is to inform ALP members of the programmes and services LSIS offers, which may be of use to independent learning providers and to help streamline the volume of communications by using existing well established channels. We hope it will encourage and increase communications from ALP members to LSIS – your views are vital to the development of LSIS activities and through this collaboration we will ensure LSIS hears them.
Qualification and Credit Framework (QCF)
This page contains a range of materials designed to support providers with the implementation of the QCF, including a guide called Making the Most of the Qualifications and Credit Framework. This new resource will help providers use the framework so that it brings real benefits to the learners and employers they work with and in doing so will help them develop their businesses. It contains audio files of conversations with 3 providers in which they describe their experiences of using the framework to develop flexible, accessible programmes of learning.
Minimum Contract Levels (MCL)
As part of the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) efficiency saving s from 1st August 2011 SFA will no longer contract directly with providers who hold ‘small contracts’. The minimum contract level (MCL) will be confirmed at the end of November when the Skills Investment Strategy is published. ALP anticipates that the MCL for 2011/2012 contracts will be set at around £500,000. This will have a direct effect on 625 providers who are likely to no longer be able to contract directly with the SFA. ALP anticipates that the MCL will be raised year on year over the next four years to a level which will be announced in the Skills Investment Strategy.
Meeting Reports
As an additional member benefit brief reports from the key meetings AELP's senior management team have attended with the Government, Key Stakeholders and others are available to download below.