Nick Skeet, Skills for Justice

EXPLORING THE LEARNER JOURNEY. ARE YOU ‘APPRENTICE READY’?ARCHWILIO TAITH Y DYSGWR. YDYCH CHI’N ‘BAROD AM BRENTIS’?

What are Apprenticeships?

Bridget Moseley

The Apprenticeship Journey

Skills for Justice Police Apprentice pilot

A Partnership with Dyfed Powys Police

The Apprentice Journey

• Organisational strategy and planning• Recruitment and induction• Initial assessment and diagnostic testing• Delivery and assessment of the Apprenticeship

Framework• Review process• Completion of the Apprenticeship

Head of Initial Police Learning and Assessment Unit, Learning Development Services.

Inspector Lisa Gore

Apprenticeship in Home Office Policing

• Elements:– Diploma in Policing, Level 3– Essential Skills Wales

• Communication, Level 3• ICT, Level 2• Application of Number, Level 2

– Employee Rights and Responsibilities (ERR)

Communication...

• ... is key to success– Cohort 1 vs Subsequent Cohorts– What done differently and benefits

Preparing for Assessment

• The Diploma starting point…….what needed to be evidenced for the C&G evidence record.

• How far does what we already do satisfy this? What do we need to add?

• Negotiation with the Essential Skills provider.• What systems needed?• Contextualise, contextualise, contextualise.

Diploma Examples – Victim Care

• 1,000 word report

‘Providing Initial Support to Victims and Witnesses within a Policing Context’

• Linked directly to diploma

Essential Skills Examples

Level 3- Communication• Give a talk/presentation of at least eight minutes. • Read, understand and synthesise information from at least two documents about the same subject. Each document must be at least 1,000 words long.

Observations

• Essential Skills fits best at the start.• We are now awarding diploma.• Need for 8 weekly reviews to draw down

funding.• Marketing- perception of ‘apprentice’.• Preparing for mainstreaming-’train the trainer’

programme for IPLDP staff.

SWP Police Officer Apprentice

Where do you go from here?

Any Questions?