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Wednesday, 28th of May 2025

 

Hello and welcome to VET News,

 

Ok, 1st July is approaching quickly and if you are only just starting to get your mind attuned to the revised standards, it is time to step up your game. Just following on from our recent VET News, I would like to highlight some of the important changes that should be high on your agenda. I am just giving you these in my usual straight to the point fashion. These points obviously do not cover the entire revised standards, but these really are the highlights that you need to be thinking about (if you haven’t already).

 

Outcome Standards:

 

Performance indicator 1.1(2) – This clause requires that training is structured and paced to support the student’s progress, includes training techniques and activities with sufficient time for instruction, practice and feedback. I recommend that you:

  • Make sure that students are fully completing their training before they commence assessment.
  • Make sure that whatever assessment tasks students are expected to complete that they get the opportunity to fully practice these and receive feedback before assessment.
  • Make sure that you have a detailed course program supported by detailed session plans that specify the training activities to be conducted.
  • Make sure that you have a mechanism to provide and record feedback to the students about their progress.

 

Performance indicator 1.3(2)(b) – This clause requires that your assessment tools are reviewed prior to their use to ensure assessment is compliant. I recommend that you:

  • Establish a basic process and tool to review each assessment against the requirement of the relevant training product, the rules of evidence and the principles of assessment.
  • If you haven’t already done this, implement an arrangement to make sure that any assessment conducted on or after the 1st of July 2025 has been reviewed and improved based on the review findings.
  • Keep this relatively simple and make sure you do it in-house and don’t outsource it to one of these validation providers. Take ownership of it and make the improvements across your assessment system. Make sure you keep records of everything.

 

Performance indicator 1.8(2)(b)(i) – This clause requires that facilities, resources and equipment are and will continue to be suitable and safe for use by students. I recommend that you:

  • If you haven’t done this already, you need to consider implementing even a basic work health and safety arrangement that enables you to assess the risks and hazards relevant to the training activities you are conducting and identify and implement hazard controls to keep students safe. This should be documented.
  • Make sure there is a system in place for the ongoing maintenance and inspection of facilities and equipment to ensure that it remains safe and suitable for use by students. This should include inspection by qualified persons where relevant.
  • Make sure there are documented arrangements in support of the procurement of the consumables that you require to support training and assessment. This needs to demonstrate how you estimate the quantity of consumables and how these are procured and made available ready for training.

 

Performance indicator 2.2(2)(a) – This clause requires that you undertake language literacy and numeracy proficiency and digital literacy assessment on all students prior to their enrolment. I recommend that you:

  • Firstly, do an analysis of all of your enrolment pathways to identify the point where the student is technically considered as enrolled.
  • Modify your enrolment process to require students to complete LLND assessment before they are enrolled and to allow these assessment results to be reviewed and responded to as part of the enrolment.
  • Make sure the LLND assessment is fit for purpose for the type of enrolment. Obviously longer courses may require a full LLND assessment, where short courses it may be suitable to have a more simplified assessment process.
  • If you don’t have appropriate assessment tools to support this process, then you might consider one of the commercial providers such as LLN Robot who seem to do a pretty good job for a reasonable price (that guy is a genius!).

 

Performance indicator 3.1(2) – This clause requires that you have ensured that your organisation has sufficient trainers and other staff to support the delivery of services. It also requires that these staff undertake continuing professional development relevant to their role. I recommend that:

  • You need to build workforce planning into your annual calendar of activities particularly in connection with your forecast scheduling of courses into the following year. This will enable you to plan on how many staff that you need to support service delivery. It may not result in any particular change but at least you can demonstrate that you have a process and have implemented the process.
  • You need to think about the type of professional development that each person within the organisation needs to support them in performing their role. Admin people will need professional development in student and course administration, compliance managers will need professional development in compliance obligations, etc. Professional development is no longer just about the trainer so we need to think about everyone else.

 

Performance indicator 4.3(2)(a) – This clause requires that you implement I risk management process to identify, manage and review risks to students, staff and the organisation. This includes risks to the organisation relating to your regulatory and compliance obligations. I recommend that you:

  • Firstly, develop or acquire I reliable risk management policy or procedure that you can follow to undertake risk assessment.
  • Do an analysis of your operation to identify all of the risks that relate to your service delivery which will include your regulatory or compliance obligations such as compliance with the new standards, legislation, regulations, etc.
  • Consider all of these risks and consider the existing arrangements that you have in place to already control these risks. Then undertake a risk assessment to identify your existing risk rating.
  • If you consider the existing risk rating too high, then consider what additional risk controls that you can put in place to further reduce either the likelihood or the consequence of this risk.
  • Convert these additional strategies into opportunities for improvement and implement these through your continuous improvement process.
  • Update your risk register considering your new strategies and record your new assessed risk rating.
  • Establish a plan to repeat this process at least once a year and use the risk management process as a framework that defines your self-assurance or compliance strategies.

 

OK, I know that I have only touched on just a very few of the standards which you need to comply with, but, without knowing anything about your organisation, these are the things that I would recommend that you tackle first in your journey to implement the revised  standards.

 

 

Good training,

 

Joe Newbery

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