Technical and Further Education Act 2017

11 (1) Section A2 (apprenticeship standards and assessment plans) is amended as follows.

(2) For the heading, substitute “Apprenticeship assessment plans”.

(3) For subsection (1) substitute—

“(1) The Institute must publish apprenticeship assessment plans in respect of such standards published under section ZA11 as it considers appropriate.”

(4) Omit subsections (2) and (3).

(5) In subsection (4)—

(a) after “An” insert “apprenticeship”;

(b) for the words from “a person’s attainment” to the end substitute “it is to be assessed whether a person seeking to complete an approved English apprenticeship has attained the outcomes set out in the standard”.

(6) In subsection (5) after “Each” insert “apprenticeship”.

(7) For subsection (6) substitute—

“(6) Each apprenticeship assessment plan must have been prepared by a group of persons and approved by the Institute.

(7) The group of persons that prepared an apprenticeship assessment plan must have been approved by the Institute.

(8) The Institute may provide advice or assistance to a group of persons in connection with the preparation of an apprenticeship assessment plan.

(9) The Institute may convene a group of persons to prepare an apprenticeship assessment plan in respect of a standard only if the Institute considers—

(a) that there is a need for an apprenticeship assessment plan in respect of that standard, and

(b) that the need will not be met unless a group is convened to prepare the plan.

(10) The Institute must publish—

(a) information about matters that it takes into account when deciding whether or not to approve apprenticeship assessment plans for the purposes of subsection (6);

(b) information about matters that it takes into account when deciding whether or not to approve groups of persons for the purposes of subsection (7).

(11) When making a decision of the kind mentioned in subsection (10)(a) or (b) in a particular case, the Institute may also take into account such other matters as it considers appropriate in the case in question.

(12) Information published under subsection (10) may be revised or replaced, and the Institute must publish under that subsection any revised or replacement information.

(13) Where an apprenticeship assessment plan is published, the Institute must publish, with the information published under section ZA10(5) in relation to the occupation, information indicating that there is an apprenticeship assessment plan in respect of the standard for the occupation.”