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23 March 2012

Learners from Bulgaria/ Romania can only start their work placement once they have been granted their yellow cards. Bullgarian and Romanian learners can attend classess and in-house training and complete any knowledge units whilst waiting for their yellow cards before Chrome Tree Training starts assessing you in your work place.

12 August 2011
Source: TES Connect
The Government is planning the biggest overhaul of vocational qualifications for 20 years

The future of NVQs is in doubt after it emerged this week that the Government is planning the biggest overhaul of vocational qualifications for 20 years.

Under the proposals, new qualifications - some of which may be based on NVQs - will primarily use different titles. Retaining the NVQ name will be optional.

A new three-tier range of awards, certificates and diplomas are being created under the Qualifications and Credit Framework.

Employers in sectors such as manufacturing and construction have protested that the new range of qualifications will undermine their attempts to make NVQs a universally accepted standard.

While most NVQs are taken in colleges or with private training companies, schools have also adopted them. Several offer language NVQs for pupils who are unlikely to gain a C-grade at GCSE.

Andy Powell, chief executive of the Edge foundation, a charity that promotes vocational options, said: “NVQs are big and growing across the board. You would never see something like this happening with academic options, and that’s not good.

“On the vocational side, we see things that would never happen with GCSEs or A-levels.”

A spokesman for the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills said the new framework would allow for more flexible qualifications to meet students’ and employers’ needs.

7 August 2011 Chrome Tree Group
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06 Jan 2011
Chrome Tree Care NEWS:
The RCN recommends that employers outside the NHS should award a minimum uplift of 2.25 per cent to the current pay rates for all nurses and healthcare support workers.

Nurses who are employed on non-NHS (AfC - Agenda for Change) contracts of employment do not automatically benefit from the annual Pay Review Body award. Nurses in this group might be practice nurses, or those nurses working in the independent or private sector.

In the past such nurses may have had their annual pay increase linked to 'Whitley rates'. Since the start of AfC in October 2004 there has been no mechanism to uplift these rates. Since 2004, the RCN has recommended that those on Whitley rates should have their pay uplifted by the same same rates as those staff employed on AfC in the NHS (source: http://www.rcn.org.uk/support/pay_and_conditions/pay_rates_2010-2011)

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