The Provider Improvement Fund (PIF)

Working with the Liverpool City Region Mayoral Combined Authority and funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) and Strategic Investment Fund (SIF) through the Liverpool City Region Skills and Apprenticeship Hub project, GMLPF is managing the Provider Improvement Fund (PIF).

PIF offers a training and development support programme to local post-16 learning providers.

RoATP Refresh CPD Session

As part of the PIF programme, GMLPF is offering LCR learning providers a half-day CPD session to help them understand and respond to the requirements of the RoATP refresh. The session, delivered by Andy Fawcett of Capability Consulting, is designed to support understanding of the refresh process and the associated quality assurance arrangements and improve providers’ chances of successfully applying to join or remain on the register.

Topics covered during the session include:

What is RoATP? Why is there a refresh?
Who must undertake the process
A practical walkthrough of the process
Key milestones and timelines
Guidance and paperwork
Differences between this and previous refreshes
Consideration of how providers might respond

Eligibility

This CPD session is free to qualifying learning providers.

To qualify for a free place, you must meet the following criteria:

You must be employed by a learning provider who has headquarters and/or training premises located in Liverpool City Region (which comprises the six local authorities of Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral)
Your employer should be delivering learning programmes locally to Liverpool City Region employers and learners
You must resident in Liverpool City Region but provided your employer is located in the Liverpool City Region, you can be resident in other or surrounding areas
In addition, the learning provider you work for must not have received more than £187,000 in state aid over the last three years. This will be the case for most learning providers. Once you have booked onto a PIF course/CPD session, GMLPF will be in touch to ascertain the amount of state aid your employer has received and go through the relevant paperwork with you.

PLEASE NOTE

This is an in-person event
This event is only open to employees of learning providers based in the Liverpool City Region
This session is funded by the European Social Fund and the LCR Combined Authority’s Strategic Investment Fund
You are respectfully asked to take a lateral flow test on the evening before attending the session and bring proof of a negative result
Unfortunately, if you attend the course and do not complete the required enrolment forms, this will incur a charge. This is unavoidable as your place on this course is funded through the ESF/Strategic Investment Fund.
If you do not attend the course and do not send someone in your place, a charge will also be incurred for the same reasons as specified above

BOOKING FOR THIS EVENT WILL CLOSE NINE DAYS BEFORE THE EVENT DATE TO ALLOW FOR COMPLETION OF PAPERWORK

PIF CPD Session: The RoATP Refresh