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Regulation update – Monitoring and Compliance

2016 Statement of Compliance

Evidence required for Conditions:

• A6

Risk management

• A7, B3

Event management and notification

• A1.3

Activity in Wales

• I3.1

Certificate design

• 117 ABs submitted SoCs
• 4 ABs did not submit –

surrendering

• 3 ABs notified of surrender in

SoC

• 32 – ABs declared current or future

non-compliance

• 28 – action plans submitted
• 21 – action plans accepted as

appropriate

• 7 – actions plans deemed insufficient

2016 Statement of Compliance

• All SoCs reviewed in detail
• 76 considered satisfactory
• 41 included elements considered

unsatisfactory or requiring further evidence from awarding body Next steps

• Contact all awarding bodies where

additional evidence required

• Contact all satisfactory awarding

bodies – no further action

• Monitor action plans
• Publish report February 2017

2016 Statement of Compliance

Guidance available on our website http://qualificationswales.org/regulation/awarding-bodies-resources/regulatory-matters/logo/?lang=en

Certificate logo

I3.1.1 An awarding body must ensure that the design and production of each certificate it issues in relation to a regulated qualification or credit award which it makes available includes the Qualifications Wales logo clearly and distinctly expressed on the front of the certificate.

• Logo must be used on certificates for all regulated qualifications and credit

certificates when awarded to learners assessed in Wales.

• May be used on certificates for qualifications regulated by Qualifications Wales

when awarded to learners outside Wales.

• May be used on non-credit units – but no requirement to do so.
• Must check other regulators' requirements.
• QW, Ofqual and CCEA Additional Certificate Requirements state: An awarding

body may include other relevant logos, including those of other regulators where appropriate.

Certificate logo

Clarification Condition D9.1

• “Qualifications Wales regulates this qualification where it is awarded to

learners assessed wholly or mainly in Wales.”

• D9.1 Additional statement only relates to Approved qualifications when

awarded outside Wales

• Only applies to Approved qualifications– currently only GCSE, AS/A, ESW and

Welsh Bacc

• Agored Cymru, City & Guilds, Pearson and WJEC

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Awarding body monitoring

• Compliance audits – start in 2017
• Schedule in place
• Share plans with CCEA & Ofqual

Focus

• Risk
• Intelligence
• SoC
• complaints / incidents
• activity - volume and type
• outcomes of other monitoring

Approach

• Linked to Standard Conditions
• Awarding body specific / thematic
• Communicate to awarding body and arrange pre-audit meeting
• Request evidence – desk-based review
• Audit at awarding body premises
• Verbal feedback and written report

Awarding body monitoring

Vocational qualifications monitoring

• Letter sent to all awarding bodies in

September 2016

http://qualificationswales.org/media/2065/qwcc1- 010_16e.pdf

Criteria

• Volume of certificates awarded by

each awarding body / each qualification

• Number of awarding bodies offering

each qualification

• Nature (risk) of the qualification e.g.

licence to practice

• Progression opportunities linked to

the qualification e.g. entry to HE

• Whether the qualification is eligible

for public funding

• Qualifications not targeted by the

sectoral review

• Trends and patterns linked to

complaints, incidents or intelligence received about awarding bodies or qualifications

Qualifications selected for VQ monitoring First Aid (Jan – June 2017)

Level 2 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work Level 3 Award in First Aid at Work Level 3 Award in Paediatric First Aid Level 3 Award in Emergency Paediatric First Aid

Food Safety (Aug 2017– Jan 2018)

Level 2 Award Food Safety in Catering Level 2 Award Food Safety in Manufacturing Level 3 Award in Supervising Food Safety in Catering Level 3 Award Food Safety Supervision in Manufacturing

Health & Safety (March – August 2018)

Level 1 Award in Health and Safety in a Construction Environment Level 2 Award in Principles of Manual Handling Level 2 Award in Manual Handling Principles and Practices Level 1 Award in Principles of Health and Safety in the Workplace

Methodology

• Include all awarding bodies offering

qualifications

• Interviews with awarding bodies and

centre staff

• Learner surveys
• Request evidence from awarding

bodies

• Desk-based review of evidence
• Final report published
• Specific issues reported to each

awarding body individually

Vocational qualifications monitoring

Regulation update – Recognition and Approval

Scope of recognition

• We will be writing to all 117 awarding bodies shortly to ask them to

confirm the scope of their recognition.

• We will ask each awarding body to confirm what each has:

– 'excluded' – surrendered – withdrawn from their scope since September 2015.

Approvals

In total 45 reformed GCSEs and A Levels have been Approved: – 2015 subjects: 6 GCSEs and 11 A Levels – 2016 subjects: 15 GCSEs and 9 A Levels – 2017 subjects: 4 GCSEs… so far

2017 Approvals AS & A Levels (due Dec 2016-Feb 2017):

• Mathematics
• Further Mathematics
• Government and Politics
• Law
• Design and Technology
• Media Studies

GCSEs (due Jan - Feb 2017):

• Business
• Design and Technology
• Media Studies
• Welsh Second Language

Qualifications Wales