Agriculture environmental and animal care

 Agriculture, Environmental and Animal Care

This section summarises the occupations that have been added and removed from the Agriculture, Environmental and Animal Care occupational map as a result of the consultation and responds to additional comments that were submitted.

Breakdown of respondents

Summary of responses

Respondents proposed additional occupations for inclusion on the map and, after analysis, the following occupations have been added as standards awaiting development:

• Agricultural Engineer (Level 6/ 7)
• Animal Health Inspector (Level 4/ 5)
• Tree Surgeon (Level 6/ 7)
• Veterinary (Surgeon) (Level 6/7)

The following occupations were proposed for inclusion; however, Institute and route panel analysis concluded that they were likely to be covered by existing standards or standards under development:

• Landscape Heritage Officer
• Landscape Heritage Professional
• Forest Officer (Level 4)

The following occupations were proposed for inclusion; however, Institute and route panel analysis concluded that there is insufficient evidence at this time for these to be considered as occupations for the development of apprenticeship standards:

• Habitat Advisor
• Horticulture Therapist
• General Farmworker

Respondents suggested that Floristry should sit on this occupational map. Following consultation with the respective route panels, this occupation has been moved to this route from Sales, Marketing and Procurement. However, the Sales, Marketing and Procurement route panel will continue to provide feedback on this standard. 

Further comments

As part of the overall improvements to this map, we have grouped the Horticulture Pathway into Productive Horticulture and Landscape clusters, and added new descriptions of these clusters to better reflect the scope of the Horticulture Industry.

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