AELP Member Exclusive Webinar: End Point Assessment Reforms
Free to AELP Members, and any organisation signing up for a trial AELP Membership during August. If you are signed up for a membership trial and would like to book on to this webinar, please email [email protected]
Overview
The proposed reforms to apprenticeship assessment, as outlined at our recent National Conference, mark a significant shift in approach placing greater emphasis on collaboration between assessment organisations, providers and employers in confirming an apprentice’s competence and behaviours. These changes will affect multiple aspects of a provider’s operations, including contracting, curriculum design, staffing, systems, and payment models.
Providers will need sufficient time to adapt and plan, including developing clear strategies for how they support employers to participate meaningfully and consistently in assessing occupational competence and behaviours.
Assessment Organisations are also beginning to shape their response, with new delivery models and differentiated approaches to meet the evolving expectations.
This panel discussion brings together AELP board member perspectives from an assessment organisation and two providers, to explore how all parties, including employers, can work in partnership to ensure the revised assessment process remains robust, fair, and focused on high-quality outcomes for apprentices.
Objectives
This webinar will help delegates to:
- Understand how the upcoming reforms will impact key aspects of apprenticeship delivery, including curriculum, systems, staffing, and contractual arrangements.
- Learn what the new requirements around employer input in confirming apprentice competence and behaviours really mean and how providers can effectively support them.
- Hear how providers and assessment organisations are approaching the changes, and explore ways to align efforts to maintain consistent, fair, and high-quality assessment outcomes
Webinar Chair
Simon Ashworth
Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Policy, AELP
Simon is currently the Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Policy for the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) and is responsible for developing and implementing AELP’s policy approach including responding and influencing stakeholder policy and ensuring it is in line with the Board’s short and long-term objectives.
AELP is a national membership body, proudly representing around 800 organisations. AELP members support thousands of businesses and millions of learners in England by delivering a wide range of training, vocational learning, and employability programmes.
Simon joined AELP in January 2017 and has worked in the further education and skills sector for over twenty years in a range of strategic and operational roles with different training providers and employers.
Panelists
Nichola Hay MBE
Director of Apprenticeship Strategy and Policy at BPP Education Group
Nichola Hay has worked in the Further Education sector for over 20 years. She was Operations Director for Quantica Training, one of the largest training providers in London. Following this, Nichola went on to start her own business and is one of the founding directors of Outsource Training and Development, which was acquired by Seetec Group in 2016.
She stayed with the business to support the integration into Seetec Outsource Training. Nichola then joined the Executive Board of Estio Training as the Chief Operating Officer, a specialist provider of digital and tech apprenticeships.
Ian Bamford
Chief Quality and Curriculum Officer at Paragon Skills
Ian has been successfully working in the Further Education and Skills sector for over 25 years in a wide variety of roles across several reputable organisations; including both independent training providers and further education colleges. He is currently Chief Quality and Curriculum Officer at Paragon Skills an independent national training provider after 8 years as Chief Operating Officer.
He is also a practicing Ofsted Inspector with over 20 years of hands-on experience, having carried out over 100 inspections with different remits across the sector including more recently monitoring visits to new providers. As such, has a very good understanding and detailed knowledge of the inspection framework and the impact Ofsted has on our sector.
Charlotte Bosworth
CEO, LifeTime Training
Charlotte led Innovate Awarding - part of the Lifetime group for the past eight years.
She has worked in both academic and vocational examination boards for over 25 years and has driven many assessment reforms and developments both for general and vocational education.
Charlotte has a passion for the vocational education sector and sits on a number of Boards including The Federation of Awarding Bodies, AAT, Walsall College, David Nieper Educational Trust and Career Colleges Trust.
AELP Member Exclusive Webinar: End Point Assessment Reforms
