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SUMMARY:Apprenticeship Units 2026: Designing and Delivering a Compliant Offer
DESCRIPTION:Apprenticeship Units launched in April 2026.  With new compliance risks\, our webinar helps providers design and implement compliant offers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew products and new programmes bring with them risk and compliance will remain a key challenge for providers as Units embed within their provision. That’s why we’ve designed a new workshop specific to Apprenticeship Unit compliance taking in the learner journey and funding rules to provide as clear a guide as possible to designing and implementing a compliant offer. \nAs part of this workshop\, you’ll receive access to our Apprenticeship Units Compliance Self-Assessment Tool. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe session will cover: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFunding\nCourse design\nEligibility\nInitial assessment\nOn programme monitoring\nAchievement and withdrawal controls\nTransition to further learning\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout your session \n\n\n\n\nThis session is designed for: Leaders\, Programme leaders\, Curriculum designers\, MI leaders\, administrators \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Lockhart-Hawkins\, SDN Mesma Group’s funding and compliance specialist will facilitate the session. \nAfter working in the sector for over 25 years\, David has supported hundreds of providers to establish effective compliance systems. His in-depth understanding of funding and wider apprenticeship delivery gives him a unique insight into compliance across the organisation \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“David’s knowledge and expertise is unparalleled.” \n – Event attendee \n“Very well delivered\, clear and very good subject knowledge” \n – Team Leader Horticulture Apprentices\, Capel Manor College \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooking and payment: \n\n\n\n\nWe recommend attending live\, but you can also be sent the recording and slide deck if that works better for your schedule.\n\n\n\n\nIf you have several staff who would benefit\, let us know and we’ll send you details of the most cost-effective way of accessing the session. \nIf you’re a public sector body (e.g. Local Authority)\, and unable to book via card\, please email us. When you make a booking\, you agree to these Terms and Conditions (including those who request a booking via email and invoice) \nSDN Mesma Group professional development is designed for Government funded Training Providers. If you’re not a Government funded Training Provider but are still interested in attending please email events@strategicdevelopmentnetwork.co.uk to discuss your attendance in more detail before booking
URL:https://www.fenews.co.uk/event/apprenticeship-units-2026-designing-and-delivering-a-compliant-offer/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshops & Masterclasses
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SUMMARY:Understanding Apprenticeship Financial Management – Funding\, Forecasting\, Costs and Budgeting
DESCRIPTION:Apprenticeship financial management is complex.\n\nDo you and your organisation know whether your provision is modelled effectively and profitably? Do you meet the compliance obligations for pricing and costs?\n\nAbout your session\n\nGetting your apprenticeship pricing right is essential for DfE compliance but perhaps more importantly for operating a financially sound apprenticeship programme. This three part webinar series is designed for role holders working in finance or operations to understand the funding methodology in apprenticeships\, the compliance obligations and benefits of effective implementation.\n\nFor example:\nHow do you measure whether a new apprenticeship standard is financially viable for you to deliver?\nAre you clear on what the apprenticeship actually costs you to deliver and where a profit margin can be made?\nCan you forecast revenue effectively and identify profitability?\nAre you clear on what are eligible and ineligible costs and that you aren’t overclaiming or underclaiming funding?\nAre you reporting your training price breakdown correctly to the employer?\nHow do you recognise the apprentice’s prior learning and reflect this in your costings?\nAre you applying the correct training price for your own employees (which must be at cost price)?\n\nAbout your session\n\nSession 1 – The funding model in England and funded components\nSession 2 – Apprenticeship costs and pricing\nSession 3 – Necessary infrastructure and variables\n\nIn the webinar series\, we’ll help you to understand:.\n\n 	The apprenticeship funding model in England\n 	Understand price components of training and assessment\n 	Eligible and ineligible costs\, how to identify these at a budget level and implement an effective offer to an employer cost models and options\n 	The importance of effective contracts with employers\n 	The role of employer co-investment and models of collection to ensure compliance\n 	Additional funding components: additional payments and learning support\n 	The impact of prior learning on cost models\n 	Employer-provider variables\n\nDavid Lockhart-Hawkins\, SDN Mesma Group’s funding and compliance specialist\, will facilitate this series. After working in the sector for over 25 years\, David has supported hundreds of providers to establish effective compliance systems. His in-depth understanding of funding and wider apprenticeship delivery gives him a unique insight into compliance across the organisation.\n\nWho’s it for?\n\nThis series is for anyone involved in the development of apprenticeship budgeting and financial operations. This could\, for example\, include finance staff\, compliance staff\, employer-facing staff\, business development teams\, commercial leads\, senior managers / decision-makers.\n\nNote: This programme is a 26/27 update to our previously delivered series on understanding apprenticeship costings.\n\nFinancial Planning Resources\n\nYou will receive a suite of comprehensive financial planning resources to calculate your costs and forecast for the future with ease.\n\nBooking and payment:\n\nYou can either attend the live sessions or be sent the recording and materials if you prefer to review them in your own time.\n\nIf you’re a public sector body (e.g. Local Authority)\, and unable to book via card\, please email us. When you make a booking\, you agree to these Terms and Conditions (including those who request a booking via email and invoice)\n\nSDN Mesma Group CPD is designed for Government funded Training Providers. If you’re not a Government funded Training Provider but are still interested in attending please email events@strategicdevelopmentnetwork.co.uk to discuss your attendance in more detail before booking.\n\nIf you have several staff who would benefit\, let us know and we’ll send you details of the most cost-effective way of accessing the session.\n\nUnable to make date / times? Register anyway and we’ll send you the recording and materials.
URL:https://www.fenews.co.uk/event/understanding-apprenticeship-financial-management-funding-forecasting-costs-and-budgeting/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Online & Webinars
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SUMMARY:Level 3 Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement
DESCRIPTION:This Level 3 accredited qualification is designed to develop delegates practical assessing skills helping them to become effective assessors in a range of Post-16 contexts both in the workplace and in the classroom. \nWe anticipate that delegates will already be working in post-16 education as a teacher/ trainer/assessor or coach. Delegates may have a strong vocational background and will have moved into teaching/ assessing as a secondary career. \nThrough participation in this important strand of the Solvendis Teaching Excellence programme you will complete three modules to help you develop and craft your assessment skills. \nDelivery will be led by an experienced member of the Solvendis Teacher Training Team with all workshops being conducted online via Teams or Zoom. \nWorkshop Dates and Times: 26 Feb & 3 March 2026 (10.00 – 4.00 online). \nDelegate fee £455 (plus vat) plus £78 awarding body registration fee – maximum 12 delegates.
URL:https://www.fenews.co.uk/event/effective-apprenticeship-progress-reviews-1-september-2/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Inclusion – Responding Effectively to Ofsted’s Expectations
DESCRIPTION:The recent introduction of Ofsted’s revised inspection framework has firmly shone the spotlight of inspection onto Inclusion.  Although Inclusion has always been considered in an inspection\, it was embedded within other aspects of provision; recruitment\, participation\, equality\, diversity or achievement. \nInclusion isn’t about any one single initiative – inspectors want to see how well training providers develop an inclusive culture\, how leadership support inclusive education and how learner needs are identified and responded to. \nThis session aims to develop a providers understanding of Ofsted’s expectations around inclusion and to build confidence in applying inclusive practices across curriculum\, teaching\, support and leadership. \nAs part of this session\, we will consider: \nThe expectations of Ofsted \n\nWhat they expect to see\nWhat they have reported so far\nWhat makes an exceptional judgement?\n\nStrategies for structure and support \n\nA culture of inclusion\nPractice and policy\nMechanisms for review\nMeasuring and understanding impact\n\nIdentifying and recording learner vulnerabilities \n\nWhat makes a learner vulnerable?\nWhat does your data tell you?\nWhat are your patterns of attendance?
URL:https://www.fenews.co.uk/event/preparing-for-an-apprenticeship-audit/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshops & Masterclasses,Online & Webinars
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SUMMARY:Apprenticeship compliance for leaders
DESCRIPTION:“An apprenticeship deliverer is only going to be compliant if they understand the real risks within their organisation”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis in-depth webinar series digs deeply into the realities of apprenticeship compliance.\nDesigned for managers and leaders who want strategies for apprenticeship compliance\, these sessions bring to life the knowledge and understanding of the core rules and funding methodologies. Beyond the basic rules\, you’ll look at the foundations of compliance across your organisation\, and how curriculum\, evidence system design and monitoring of implementation are integral to getting compliance right while also strengthening quality.\n\n \n\n\nAt the end of the series\, you will: \n\n\n\n\n\n 	Be able to critically evaluate compliance in your own area of operation\n 	Have developed your understanding of best practice for reducing risk\n 	Increased your knowledge of common errors and how to avoid them\n\n\n\n\n\nWe’ll take you through: \n\n\n\n\n\n 	Key compliance principles – How it all should work\n 	Risk in areas of operation\n 	Managing the risk of rogue elements within your organisation\n 	Safeguarding funding through the apprentice journey – the data needed\n 	The three R’s\, Right programme\, Right learner\, and Right employer\n 	Compliance strategies\n 	Common strategic errors\n\n\n \n\nAbout your session\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Lockhart-Hawkins\, SDN’s funding and compliance specialist will facilitate this series. After working in the sector for over 25 years\, David has supported hundreds of providers to establish effective compliance systems. His in-depth understanding of funding and wider apprenticeship delivery gives him a unique insight into compliance across the organisation.\n\nWe’ve built this series so that providers can send middle and senior managers from all departments and areas on an intensive high-level compliance journey so that they can bring new ideas and best practice examples back into their organisations.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe highly recommend that you attend our Apprenticeship compliance fundamentals and what this means for your role series prior to attending these webinars. This will introduce all apprenticeship staff to the core apprenticeship rules and where their role fits in the compliance journey.\n\n\n\n\n\n“Gave me a better understanding of how to improve quality through compliance audits and reviews within the company.”\n\n“Very insightful\, lots of great knowledge and handouts to help.”\n\n– Previous event attendees\n\n\nBooking and payment: \n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can either attend live sessions or be sent the recordings and materials if you prefer to review them in your own time. You can also mix and match for whatever works best for your schedule.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you have several staff who would benefit\, let us know and we’ll send you details of the most cost-effective way of accessing the session.\n\nIf you’re a public sector body (e.g. Local Authority)\, and unable to book via card\, please email us. When you make a booking\, you agree to these Terms and Conditions (including those who request a booking via email and invoice)\n\nSDN Mesma Group PD is designed for Government funded Training Providers. If you’re not a Government funded Training Provider but are still interested in attending please email events@strategicdevelopmentnetwork.co.uk to discuss your attendance in more detail before booking.
URL:https://www.fenews.co.uk/event/apprenticeship-compliance-for-leaders-cpd-accredited-3/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Online & Webinars
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SUMMARY:Level 3 Certificate in Education & Training
DESCRIPTION:This Level 4 teaching qualification is designed to develop delegates practical teaching skills helping them to become effective teachers in a range of Post-16 contexts. We anticipate that delegates will already be working in post-16 education as a teacher/ trainer/ assessor or coach.  Delegates may have a strong vocational background and will have moved into teaching as a secondary career. \nPractice requirement:  There is a requirement for a minimum of 30 hours of professional practice for this qualification \nPerformance requirement:  As part of the course you will complete 6 written assignments and a portfolio of evidence.  The portfolio will require you to complete a minimum of 3 different observed taught sessions\, each observation MUST be 30 minutes or longer\, and the total combined time of all observations must be longer than 3 hours.  You can to do more than 3 observations if you do not meet all criteria in the 3 observations or the required 3 hours\, but the minimum number of observations is 3.  These observations should be spread across the course to allow for incorporation of feedback/ development targets in the subsequent observations.  These observations will be carried out by a suitably qualified mentor that you will need to be able to provide before joining the course.  All observations must be in person. \nMentor requirements:  Your suitably qualified mentor must be able to demonstrate current evidence of CPD in assessment and: \n\nHold a teaching/training qualification at level 4 or above.\nHold an assessor qualification at level 3 or above which includes assessment in the workplace\n\nThere will be 9 Workshops (all 10.00—4.00) which will be held on Thursdays. The topics to be covered and workshop dates are: \nWorkshop 1 – 21/01/2027 Introduction to learning\nWorkshop 2 – 28/01/2027 Planning to meet individual learner needs\nWorkshop 3 – 04/02/2027 Delivering education and training (Pt 1)\nWorkshop 4 – 11/02/2027 Delivering education and training (Pt 2)\nWorkshop 5 – 25/02/2027 Progress checking and showcasing\nWorkshop 6 – 04/03/2027 Assessment in learning\nWorkshop 7 – 11/03/2027 Learning resources\nWorkshop 8 – 18/03/2027 Inclusive practice (Pt 1)\nWorkshop 9 – 25/03/2027 Inclusive practice (Pt 2) \nIn addition to workshop attendance\, delegates will undertake a short pre-course activity\,\nindependent research\, complete assignments and be observed on at least 3 occasions
URL:https://www.fenews.co.uk/event/understanding-apprenticeship-funding-rules-2023-24/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshops & Masterclasses,CPD Courses
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