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Consultation on L7 Senior Leader Occupational Standard (Closed)

The Trailblazer has analysed the responses from the consultation and have attended a workshop to consider what revisions are appropriate to make to the draft occupational standard. With support from the Institute, they are now revising the occupational standard with a view to finalising a draft for submission into the Institute’s next approvals cycle.

The currently envisaged timeline for the revision of the standard and related end-point assessment plan is as follows:

  Action Date Status
1 IFATE/Trailblazer evidence gathering from training providers and employers delivering the standard 16-27 March Completed
2 Remote Intensive workshop with the trailblazer to develop a first draft of a policy compliant revised occupational standard 18 March Completed
3 Finalise redrafting of the occupational standard 23 March – 3 April Completed
4 Trailblazer consultation on revised occupational standard 8-29 April Completed
5 Trailblazer to analyse consultation responses with Institute support 30 April – 4 May Completed
6 Consult IFATE Peer Reviewer and Worldskills on the draft occupational standard 11-15 May  
7 Remote intensive workshop to review the consultation feedback and revise the occupational standard 5 May Completed
8 Finalise occupational standard 6-19 May  
9 Final checks of standard and submission 19-20 May  
10 Remote intensive workshop to revise the End-Point Assessment plan so that it is policy compliant and aligns with the revised standard 1-5 June  
11 Trailblazer to request costings from training providers and an end-point assessment organisation to inform IFATE’s funding band recommendation 10 June  
12 Outcome of occupational standard approval process 6 – 10 July  
13 Finalise EPA plan and revisit standard to check for any knock-on effects on KSBs to enable grading descriptors 6-17 July  
14 Draft EPA reviewed by Education Advisor 20-24 July  
15 Finalisation of EPA plan and costings 27 July – 23 August  
16 Final checks of EPA plan and costings 26 August – 16 September  
17 Outcome of EPA plan approval process 2 – 6 October  
18 Addressing of any EPA plan conditions and ministerial approval of funding band October – November  
19 Apprenticeship standard approved for delivery November – December*  

*Consideration will need to be given as to whether a notice period needs to be given between its approval and final implementation.

Regards

Sally


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