1. Habia Update Andrew Darby Deputy Chief Executive

2. Sector Qualification Strategy  Action Plan for Wales download at www.habia.orgwww.habia.org A Standards and Qualifications A Standards and Qualifications B Learning Delivery B Learning Delivery C Policy and Funding C Policy and Funding

3. New NOS and Materials in Welsh  Beauty NOS and NVQ qualification structures  Hair and Scalp units approved  Threading unit submitted  Welsh NOS free download  Learning Support Units in Welsh Hairdressing – Mandatory L2 units for Sept Free download with purchase of English LSUs  QCF Units in Welsh – Hairdressing Level 2 Habia coordinating later this year Awarding bodies to develop assessment materials

5. Job Ready Qualifications NVQ/SVQ Preparation for Work Qualifications VRQ Candidates must be assessed on paying clients Candidates may be assessed on manikins or other simulated body parts, models, peers from the same teaching group and non-paying clients Assessments must be completed within maximum service times Assessment do not have to be completed within maximum service times Must be assessed in a genuine workplace or approved Realistic Working Environment (RWE) Can be assessed in Realistic Learning Environment (RLE) No simulated assessment, apart from agreed contingency performance criteria Assessment permitted under simulated conditions If not employed status, must have completed a minimum amount of structured work experience, linking to the learning outcomes of the qualification Limited or no work experience Assessment must cover the full range of situations described in the National Occupational Standards (NOS) for the subject area Restricted or limited range of situations Qualification has NVQ in the title, if on the QCF

6. QCF Progress  Ministers set deadlines  Ofqual and funding bodies implement  Habia and Awarding Bodies collaborating Write NOS into QCF template Credit and levelling units Notional hours and GLH Rules of Combination  All H+B qualifications expire 31/7  Hairdressing and Barbering Extensions to 2015 Rewording in progress  Beauty April 1 submission deadline for August availability

7. Pre-16 Learning Programmes in Wales  Welsh Bacc – Diploma in Hair and Beauty Studies Principal Learning + Project + Essential Skills Wales Sept 2010 DCELLS assessing applications Habia supporting role for centres – Tracey James Updated Line of Learning Statement Updated Companion Document Leaflets

8. Pathway to Apprenticeships  Full time FE courses Level 2 target qualifications Key skills Additionality Employer engagement Apprenticeship link Evaluation project Pat Roberts and Tudor Philips

9. Draft Work Based Learning Pathway Proposal to pilot in Hairdressing from Sept 2010  Work based  Welsh medium  Two models - 1 day/week; 2 days/week Main Qualification eg  Level 2 Diploma in Hair Services  BTEC Level 2 Certificate in Hairdressing  Level 1 NVQ Certificate in Hairdressing in the workplace Additional eg:  Level 2 Award in Contact Dermatitis Prevention (9GLH)  BTEC Level 2 Award in Safe Learning in the Workplace (30 GLH)  Level 1 Award in Employability and Personal Development (62-67GLH) Work experience and work-based learning with employer/s (20 or 50 days)

10. Apprenticeships  Review complete – waiting for SASW  Main competency qualification Foundation: Level 2 NVQ Diploma Advanced: Level 3 NVQ Diploma  Key Skills/Essential Skills Wales inc ICT  Employment Rights and Responsibilities (ERR)  Personal, Learning and Thinking Skills (PLTS)  Employed status

11. Proposed Habia Skills Academy for Hair, Beauty, Nails and Spa

12. Key Skill Issues Business Skills Technical Skills Learning and Development Skills

13. Key drivers  Growth in client demand in specialist skill areas  Retirement of traditional barbers  Lack of skilled and qualified trainers, assessors and verifiers  New standards, qualifications, programmes, funding and skill agencies  Emulate success of work based learning in hairdressing into beauty, nails and spa  Enterprise, leadership and management training absent or ad hoc  No tradition of recruiting older (25+) workers, graduates or training beyond Level 3  Over reliance on Government funding to support staff training

14. Identifying and signposting excellent provision… Internet based service Network of Centres of Excellence UK coverage

15. Driving and delivering professional development… Improving educators’ skills Cascading knowledge through regional networks Businesses and learners networking

16. Developing innovative provision, products and services…

17. Key Skill Issues Business Skills Technical Skills Learning and Development Skills

18. Technical Skills  African type hair skills  Male-female with natural and chemically treated hair  Artificial nails  Poor application of enhancements causing physical and fungal nail plate damage  Laser & Intense Pulsed Light (IPL)  Deregulated 2010  Barbering skills  Traditional barbers retiring and skills lost to industry  Hair and scalp analysis  awareness of salon based treatments

19. Key Skill Issues Business Skills Technical Skills Learning and Development Skills

20. Business Skills  Employees have little commercial awareness and understanding  Particularly from full time learning  Top three business skills gaps  Business planning, marketing and selling  Recruitment and retention  Management training may lead to employees leaving and setting up in competition  Wary of traditional management courses  Unable to leave business to learn  Take up of Management Qualifications  Only 8.4% hold a qualification above Level 4 (33% of UK)

21. Key Skill Issues Business Skills Technical Skills Learning and Development Skills

22. Learning and development skills of educators…  Experiential learning skills taking into account;  Different learning styles, special learning needs eg dyslexia  Building in entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial skills  Developing a business from within an existing business  On the job coaching skills  e-learning and e-assessment skills  Consistent quality assurance to current industry standards  Developing external verifiers in relation to technical skills  Consistent high quality delivered by Learning Providers

23. The Academy will… Act on and reduce skill shortages Support qualifications availability to meet employers expectations Encourage businesses to invest more in skills

24. The Academy will… Achieve a step change in capability Address key issues Act across the UK

25. The Academy will … The Academy will increase… In-salon learning Employer engagement Employer involvement

26. The Academy has the… Vision to excite Leadership to take it forward Strength to keep it going