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SUMMARY:Preparing for Apprenticeship Assurance Review & Audit in 2027
DESCRIPTION:Assurance risk is moving in the sector. Prepare for DfE assurance review or other external audit with confidence.\n\nDfE Assurance reviews and external audits expose weaknesses across systems\, evidence and operational practice. If you’re fully prepared\, you can avoid the disruption caused by implementing corrective actions under pressure.\n\nThis focused three-hour webinar will help you understand the apprenticeship compliance assurance landscape for 2027\, recognise common findings\, assess your readiness and prepare you for funding compliance scrutiny and external audit.\n\nStrengthen your organisational readiness and get practical tools and greater confidence in your organisation’s ability to withstand review.\n\nWe’ll help you to understand:\n\n 	Common assurance findings and what they indicate about underlying control weaknesses\n 	The typical assurance review approach\, including controls questionnaires\, evidence testing including PDSAT sampling\, enquiry and validation\n 	The tools that support effective preparation\n 	How to use an action plan to assign ownership\, timescales and evidence of completion\n 	How to build and maintain a compliance risk register that supports active oversight\n 	Practical steps to prepare teams\, records\, systems and governance arrangements for review\n\nDelegate Toolkit:\n\nYou’ll receive a delegate toolkit for use during and after the webinar. Use these resources to translate the webinar content into a readiness plan for your organisation.\n\n 	Action Plan Template: Helps turn priorities into clear\, accountable actions.\n 	Controls Questionnaire: Enables self-assessment of current controls.\n 	Compliance Risk Register: Supports prioritisation and oversight of compliance risks.\n\nAbout your session\n\nThe session will be facilitated by David Lockhart-Hawkins is an experienced apprenticeship compliance\, assurance and governance specialist who supports education and training organisations to understand funding requirements\, strengthen internal controls and prepare for external scrutiny. His work includes compliance assurance reviews\, risk-based audits\, due diligence and advisory support\, with a particular focus on translating complex funding rules into practical\, proportionate action. David brings an evidence-led and operational perspective to assurance\, helping leaders identify emerging risks\, address the root causes of recurring findings and build sustainable approaches to compliance.
URL:https://www.fenews.co.uk/event/preparing-for-apprenticeship-assurance-review-audit-in-2027/
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SUMMARY:Understanding Apprenticeship Off the Job Training in 2026/27
DESCRIPTION:Off the job training continues to cause challenges for providers from both a compliance and quality perspective. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChanges to rules on minimum hours from August 2025 are only now impacting providers as they face up to difficulties with evidencing completion but the day to day problem remains understanding what does and does not count and how should it be planned for in curriculum. Do you\, and your organisation\, have confidence that you fully understand this critical area? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe’ll help you to understand: \n\n\n\n\nThe published minimums for OTJT\nRules on planning and distributing off the job hours\nWhat does and doesn’t count\nEvidence requirements for planning and implementing off the job\nHow to apply recognition of prior learning to content and price\nMonitoring ‘Active learning’\n\n\n\n\nYou’ll also walk away with four tools: \n1) Example training plan structure \n2) Recognition of Prior learning calculator \n3) Example off the job training log \n4) Off the job training compliance checklist \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout your session\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe webinar will be facilitated by SDN Mesma Group Strategic Associate\, David Lockhart-Hawkins. After working in the sector for over 25 years\, David has experience of working with hundreds of high performing apprenticeship organisations over the last twenty years\, including some of the UK’s largest\, highest quality\, specialist and new providers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar is for anyone involved in planning or monitoring the design and implementation of off the job hours so could include quality\, compliance and finance from practitioners to leaders.
URL:https://www.fenews.co.uk/event/understanding-apprenticeship-off-the-job-training-in-2026-27/
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