Presented at the ASQA national information sessions these slides provide an overview of the VET sector within the ACT including the ACT Quality Framework, funding agreement, standards and compliance.

1. ACT Education and Training Directorate
Vocational Education and Training
Quality Framework
Ann Goleby,
Director
5 November 2014

2. VET in the ACT - Overview
• The ACT Government, through the Education and
Training Directorate contracts registered training
organisations (RTOs) to deliver government
subsidised training to eligible students.
• The ACT Government has a responsibility to ensure
government subsidised training delivers:
productivity for the ACT
value for money.
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3. VET in the ACT - Overview
• Funded training initiatives in the ACT are informed by
the ACT Skills Needs List.
• Enables the ACT Government to better target
training to develop a productive and highly skilled
workforce.
• Used to assist in identifying which qualifications may
receive government subsidies, and the level of
subsidy provided.
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4. ACT Quality Framework
• The ACT Quality Framework sets the benchmark for
delivery of government subsidised training.
• Developed to ensure excellence and transparency in
the ACT vocational education and training market.
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5. ACT Quality Framework
• The Quality Framework includes:
ACT Funding Agreement
ACT Standards and ACT Standards Compliance Guides
ACT Audit Methodology
RTO Eligibility Criteria
RTO Risk Profiling.
• The Quality Framework will also outline performance
and behaviour expectations for RTOs.
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6. ACT Funding Agreement (ACTFA)
• RTOs are required to hold an ACTFA to access and
deliver ACT government subsidised training to
eligible students.
• Holding an ACTFA does not guarantee funding.
• The current ACTFA expires 30 June 2015.
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7. ACT Funding Agreement (ACTFA)
• ACTFA version v2.0 will take effect from July 2015.
• Applications for ACTFA version v2.0 will be assessed
against 51 quality indicators:
Contractual compliance and performance
Financial performance
Service quality and outcomes
Stakeholder engagement
Trainer and staff quality.
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8. ACT Standards
• The ACT Standards for Delivery of Training (ACT
Standards) outline the mandatory standards for RTOs
in the management and delivery of training.
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10. ACT Standards Compliance Guides
• Each ACT funded training initiative has a Compliance
Guide.
• The Compliance Guides provide direction to RTOs on:
how to interpret, implement and comply with the ACT
Standards and additional initiative specific
requirements, when delivering funded training
the administrative requirements.
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11. ACT Compliance Audits
• In December 2013, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
was engaged to review the audit process.
“Integral to the success of the grant funding process is an on-going
monitoring regime to ensure funding recipients are meeting
agreed milestones and other key requirements of their funding
agreements.”
“The purpose of monitoring grants is to reduce risk, including the
risk of fraud, ineffective project implementation and/or
non-completion.”
Implementing Better Practice Grants Administration: Australian National Audit Office 2010.
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12. ACT Compliance Audits
• Outcomes of the review include the development of:
audit selection and sampling methodology
Audit Sanctions Matrix
initial stages of the RTO risk assessment criteria
including the methodology for prioritising RTOs
for audit.
• Audits by the ACT Education and Training Directorate
are conducted against the Standards and
Requirements in the Compliance Guides.
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Compliant Minor
non-compliance
Moderate
non-compliance
Major
non-compliance
Critical
non-compliance
Compliance
Rating
• System in place.
Policies and
procedures
documented and
followed by staff.
• Standards are met.
•Complete and
accurate records
retained.
•Policies and
procedures
occasionally not
followed. Services
do not fully meet
the standards.
• Infrequent, minor
omissions in
implementation;
readily correctable.
•Policies and
procedures
frequently not
followed.
•One or more
standards not met.
• Significant
time/resources
required to rectify.
•Policies and
procedures not
consistent with the
standards and/or
not followed.
• Failure to
effectively and
accurately record
and report
information.
•Substantial
time/resources to
rectify.
•No policies and
procedures.
•Failure to
implement.
•Standards not
met.
•Difficult or
unable to
rectify.
•Students at risk.
•Education and
Training
Directorate
reputation at
risk.
ACT Standards Compliance Findings
and Risk Assessment Matrix

14. ACT Vocational Education
and Training Stakeholders Forum
• Further information on the ACT Quality Framework
will be provided at the forum on Friday 7 November.
• Contact:
tateconsultation@act.gov.au
(02) 6205 8555
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15. Thank You