Provider Access Legislation (PAL) Training providers

Provider Access Legislation has a variety of requirements which training providers must be aware of to ensure they are meeting requirements. Here are some basic details about the new processes which training providers will be involved in:

The training provider offer

Schools and providers should work together and schools must ask each provider to provide information to pupils that, as a minimum, includes:

• information about the provider and the approved technical education qualifications or apprenticeships that the provider offers
• information about the careers to which those technical education qualifications or apprenticeships might lead
• a description of what learning or training with the provider is like
• responses to questions from the pupils about the provider or approved technical education qualifications and apprenticeships

Schools are already required by law to prepare a policy statement setting out the circumstances in which education and training providers will be given access to pupils.

The new legislation requires schools to set out the times at which access is to be given and explain how they will meet the new legal requirement to put on six provider encounters.

• Worcestershire Schools PAL Policy Website Links (PDF)

Resources and Documents: 

We have collated some basic overviews of PAL for your use and included some examples of good practice.

• Provider Access Legislation Overview Document (PDF)
• Provider Access Legislation: Careers guidance and access for education and training providers. (PDF)
• Access to schools for education and training providers Examples of good practice. (PDF)
• Provider access legislation overview presentation (PowerPoint)
• The Careers and Enterprise Company - Provider Access Legislation Guidance