During 2012, there were significant policy changes that had implications for the training and development of teachers in the further education and skills sector. This guidance aims to support teacher educators and teacher training providers to both understand and respond to these developments. In 2012, an independent review panel (chaired by Lord Lingfield) was established by the government to consider the existing arrangements for regulating and facilitating the professionalism of the further education and skills workforce. One of the key recommendations made by the independent review panel, which ministers immediately accepted, was to take forward a review to simplify and re-name the further education and skills teaching qualifications. In July 2012, LSIS was asked to undertake this review of the qualifications working closely with the sector through a representative project steering group.
At the same time, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) launched a consultation on the revocation of the further education and skills workforce regulations. Following the consultation, amended workforce regulations were introduced in September 2012 that removed the existing requirement to join the
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Thereafter, it is anticipated that all the workforce regulations will be revoked and that it will be up to employers to decide what is appropriate for their own staff and organisation. Employers will need to have internal policies in place to specify the qualifications they require their teaching staff to hold and to determine what continuing professional development (CPD) is appropriate. Policies should cover the different teaching roles undertaken by their staff including those delivering English (literacy and/or ESOL), mathematics (numeracy) and provision for disabled