Bitesize Briefings

There are two essential requirements to be met in relation to the local authority.

1. All organisations must be registered with the local authority, who will conduct occasional inspections depending on the level of priority the premises poses.  If your activities are low risk, then these are only likely to be about every 5 years.  If your activities are higher risk or you report a high level of accidents (see point 2), inspections are likely to be more regular.
2. Under the Reporting Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) 1995 certain serious health and safety incidents need to be reported to the local authority.  Your accident book will most likely have a summary of this.

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What follows is how the targets relevant to Third Sector Adult education fared in the recent process for inclusion in Local Area Agreements.  This may help you put Derbyshire and Derby’s LAA into a broader perspective.

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The following breifing contains information that was distributed at the Learning & Skills Council's ESF Provider Event.  The Briefing includes information on the following:

• Future Funding
• ILR Documentation
• Quality Assurance
• Contracting

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The following briefing is notes from the liaison meeting between East Midlands Learning & Development Consortia and LSC - Leicester on 21 Januray 2008.

It includes information on the following:

• Funding Opportunities
• Tendering
• Other
• Machinery of Government

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The following is a summary of the key elements of “Machinery of Government: Departmental Organisation” (Cabinet Office 29 June 2007) and what part of DfES will become the responsibilities of the new Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS).

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The Learning Skills Council’s (LSC) Framework for Excellence (FfE) sits alongside frameworks applied to other sectors, such as the police and the NHS.

Performance ratings will be published so that learners can take these into consideration when choosing courses.  Performance ratings will also inform purchasing decisions by the LSC.  It is, therefore, designed to provide information as part of the demand-led approach to learning that is intended to drive quality improvement through the introduction of market forces.

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What are Progression Qualifications?

The National OCN Qualifications for Progression are a new and different type of qualification.  They contain individual units of assessment, each having its own credit value (credit values are based on 1 credit = 10 hours of learning; therefore a 3 credit unit = 30 hours of learning).

In creating these new qualification, NOCN has remained focused on the profile if OCN learners while at the same time responding to the national agenda on skills and the current reform of the qualification framework.

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The following briefing answers the folowing questions:

1. Why do tutors need to be trained to deliver adult training?

2. I am not a trained tutor, what do I need to do to become a trained tutor?

3. I trained as a teacher between 2001 and 2007, what do I need to do?

4. I trained as a teacher before 2001, what do I need to do?

6. What can DLDC do to help?

5. Once I am trained, what else do I need to do to meet the requirements?

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Text of a letter from Rt Hon Hazel Blears MP, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, dated 26^th Feb 2008:

“I am writing to thank you for the valuable contribution you have made and are continuing to make to the challenge of bringing about a transformation in the UK's most deprived communities.

The Government knows well that it is through the work of our partner organisations and local people, whether they work for statutory agencies or community-led groups that real people’s lives are changed for the better......"

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The following briefing is text of an Edexcel Policy Briefing:

"So nine years after plans were first unfurled for a new post – 16 system to be  built around the Learning and Skills Council, a new system is drafted for learning and skills in this country but without the LSC. ‘Learning to Succeed’ as the White Paper was called in 1999 has become in 2008 ‘Raising Expectations.’ It’s goodbye LSC, although not until 2010, and hello to a smattering of new bodies and systems. The aim, as the Paper points out, is about ‘hiding the wiring’ and ‘creating clear pathways for customers.’.........."

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The Workforce Hub was funded to start the work to develop a Sector Qualification Strategy for the Third Sector across the UK.  The project is funded by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills and has three parts.

1. The development of Three Labour Market Intelligence (LMI) reports
2.  The development of the Sector Qualification Strategy (SQS)
3.  Development of an action plan to implement the SQS

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