Extension of Key Skills in Apprenticeship Frameworks

Key Skills in Apprenticeship Frameworks will be extended until March 2011 to allow providers the choice of offering either Functional Skills or Key Skills in the interim. This is a temporary measure to allow more flexibility for providers and more time for collaboration on the right form of implementation.

Speaking at the Association of Learning Providers (ALP) summer conference, John Hayes, minister of state for further education, skills and lifelong learning, said: 'I know that many providers will be finalising their preparations for delivery of Functional Skills from April 2011. They should still identify and access the support they need to develop their capacity to deliver Functional Skills, with which the Learning and Skills Improvement Service can help'. The minister did, however, encourage those who are ready to deliver Functional Skills from September 2010 to go ahead and do so.

Source: LSIS