The future of the qualifications landscape and how it affects our sector

29th April 2015

Tara Dillon, CEO, CIMSPA

Jenny Patrickson, Commercial Director, Active IQ

The Qualifications Landscape

• Apprenticeship reform & trailblazers• Vocational qualification reform• New DfE requirements• New funding requirements• Employer engagement• Ofqual and the QCF• Active leisure qualifications

Ofqual and the QCF

• Closure of QCF unit bank• An end to common (shared) units• Transfer of qualification ownership• Drive for more valid, meaningful, holistic

qualifications• Significant employer engagement• Clear line of sight to work

What’s happening?

• Physical Activity Trailblazer (ukactive, CIMSPA, employers)

• Professional Development Framework (CIMSPA)• Redevelopment of active leisure qualifications

(AOs, CIMSPA, employers)

What’s essential…..• Synergy, comparability and parameters

Developing a Future Fit Workforce

So what’s been going on?

• SPELG ask – no real progress• Trailblazer has shown us the way• The QCF is changing – we need to get our ducks in a row• General concerns around standards of qualifications• We need to push ourselves• A genuine cross sector desire to get this right

Real concerns around a race to the bottom

AOs and TPs cutting corners

Confusion within the sector

A single qualification framework?

So what’s the plan?

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What does the future hold?

Physical inactivity costs England over £8bn per year (£8.2bn in direct and indirect costs)  Over £1bn direct cost of physical inactivity to the NHS across the UK (£1.06bn)

Inactive people spend 38% more days in hospital .They visit the doctor 5.5% more often

Physical inactivity now fourth leading risk factor for global mortality.

£50bn by 2050 – estimated cost of obesity to the UK. 48% of men and 43% of women predicted to be overweight by 2030.

Between 1961 and 2005 (one generation) physical activity declined by 20%. It is predicted to decline by a further 15% by 2030.  If everyone in England were sufficiently active, nearly 37,000 deaths a year could be prevented. Only 6% of men and 4% of women in England are doing enough activity.  

 

 

Physical inactivity is responsible for 17% of premature deaths in the UK. Also responsible for 10.5% of heart disease cases. Being inactive shortens the lifespan by 3-5 years. By 2020 the average Brit will be so sedentary that they will use only 25% more energy than if they spent the whole day sleeping. Inactive people are 59% more likely to develop osteoporosis than an active person.

It’s time• Time to come together as a sector and develop a strategy

which gives us the credibility we deserve and ask for• We’ve been banging on about being a genuine solution to

some of the NHS’s problems – time to say how• Time to invest in our workforce, work with our future

workforce, attract and retain talent that fits the strategy• Time we had some proof that what we do really works• Time we had an Institute with real status to act on our

behalf as a single voice for real change pulling on all agendas

• Time to future fit our workforce and our sector.