Insights

PAL's Summer Update is now available where PAL talks AI in assessment, launches Coaching Professional Level 5 EPA and further PAL updates.  Click here to view the update.

Version 1 of the 2024 to 2025 Funding Rules have been released from the ESFA.  Click here to read PAL's Audit & Compliance guide to the changes. Click here for the full version of the Funding Rules 2024 to 2025.

PAL's Spring Update is now available where PAL celebrates completing 10,000 assessments, key funding & compliance updates plus information on upcoming coming webinars and PAL updates.  Click here to view the update.

A revised version of the Early Years Educator ST0135 Level 3 Standard will go live for all apprenticeship starts from 1st April 2024. The table below provides a summary of the key changes between the current version and the revised version. Please note that the revised version includes a change to the required knowledge, skills, and behaviours.  View our [...]

PAL's Compliance team has been able to obtain an early glimpse at the latest ESFA audit working papers for 2023-2024. Our experience of conducting mock ESFA funding audits for our clients has given us the insight to deconstruct the working papers to help providers understand and prepare for the ESFA's audit focus for 2023-24, and set out any shift [...]

PAL's Compliance team has now been able to access the latest ESFA audit working papers. Our expertise as auditors of ESFA-funded programmes has also enabled us to create a spreadsheet for training providers which identifies the changes compared to last year's working papers, and defines what will need to be done differently this year to meet audit expectations. The spreadsheet [...]

PAL's winter newsletter is now available, containing important information about Christmas and New Year service arrangements, plans for potential winter disruption, as well as the latest EPA news and a selection of insightful press articles from PAL   Click here to read the newsletter!

Following our successful bid to be named Multi-Standard EPAO of the Year (SME) in the inaugural FAB EPA Award ealier this year, we are delighted to announce that PAL has been confirmed as a finalist for the FAB 2022 awards in the EPAO of the Year category. PAL is honoured to be short-listed alongside fantastic and esteemed end-point assessment organisations.  [...]

We are very excited to announce that PAL is now approved to deliver end-point assessment for additional standards in other sectors. PAL is now able to offer EPA for the following apprenticeship standards: Early Years Practitioner Early Years Educator Early Years Lead Practitioner   Customer Service Practitioner Customer Service Speicialist Since 2017, PAL has been refining its EPA offer and [...]

Further to our recent post about being shortlisted as a finalist at the inaugural Federation of Awarding Bodies EPA Awards, we are absolutely thrilled to share that PAL was judged to be the winner of the Multi-standard EPAO of the Year (SME) category. All category winners and those organisations judged as highly commended will be entered into the FAB [...]