Skills for Care National Conference 2015 How to make the new Apprenticeship Standards work for you Workshop presenters: Peter Barron Project Manager, SLQA, Skills for Care Helen Wilcox MD, Woodford Homecare and Chair, Adult Care Trailblazer‎ Group Susan Smith Programme Head, SLQA, Skills for Care

A work in progress Apprenticeship Frameworks to Standards

Frameworks to Standards  Intermediate level in Health and Social Care – adult social care  Advanced level in Health and Social Care – adult social care  Higher Apprenticeship in Care Leadership and Management Existing frameworks

Frameworks to Standards  Reverse-engineered  On and off the job learning  Driven by assessment  Owned by employers…or is it the government? The Standards system

Standards  12 months/30 hours  Rules on learning time in and out of workplace  Maths and English  End-point synoptic assessment  Independent assessment  Starts at the end OccupationCompetencesAssessmentLevel

Frameworks to Standards Adult Care Worker Lead Adult Care Worker Lead Practitioner in Adult Care Leader/Manager in Adult Care Standards in Adult Care

Standards – where are we?  12 employers  Agreed continued use of diploma quals  Adult Care Worker and Lead ACW Standards published (Dec 2014)  Permission granted to work on Lead Practitioner and Leader/Manager (submission June 2015)  Assessment strategies work underway  End point and independent assessment – how?

What’s next?  Design end-point assessment  Decide who will be the end-point assessors  Allow time for all parties to prepare for delivery  Submit funding proposal  Await government decision on maths / English requirements  July 2015?: Adult Care Worker / Lead Adult Care worker assessment plans approved and published  Switch off existing frameworks?  Start delivery of first two standards (Autumn 2015?)  Submit standards for higher apprenticeships (June 2015)  Develop assessment plans for higher apprenticeships (Autumn 2015)

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