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Does Your RTO Have Confidence in Its Self-Assurance Systems and Processes?

In recent months, ASQA has made some changes to its regulatory approach towards RTOs.  One key area of focus is to ensure that providers can demonstrate a confident ability to effectively self-assure their own operational practices.  

Providers that have quality self-assurance systems and processes in place are able to critically examine their own performance and student outcomes on an ongoing basis. This helps them ensure the continued implementation of compliant RTO operations, as is a requirement of the Standards for RTOs 2015, and confidently identify ways in which they can continue to improve, irrespective of whether they have a regulatory audit pending or not.

Self-assurance forms an important part of managing risk within your organisation, and providers who employ effective self-assurance practices demonstrate a commitment and capability to delivering quality training.  

Implementing self-assurance systems and processes has always been a requirement of the Standards.   Involving both systematic monitoring and evaluation approaches, the outcomes from these are used to ensure the ongoing continuous improvement of quality practices across the nationally recognised training services provided.  

A provider who is applying effective self-assurance practices will:

• identify and fix issues as they arise
• manage risks to quality outcomes and, in doing so, ensure quality student outcomes
• have confidence that they meet regulatory requirements (including meeting the quality standards) - now and into the future.

With that said, it is time to consider:

• what your RTO has been doing to ensure it has effective self-assurance practices in place, and
• if your team of VET practitioners are aware of the key role they play in enabling and implementing these practices.

To assist in understanding key areas of compliance that must be maintained across your RTO, Velg Training have developed a range of key short and sharp course modules of learning specifically focused on how VET practitioners can continuously develop and maintain essential compliance systems and requirements within an RTO.  These modules of learning include self-assurance focused modules, such as:

• Effective RTO Management Practices
• Establish effective Trainer and Assessor Practice

See our full range of modules here

Whilst feedback on ASQA's self-assurance consultation paper has closed, they would still love to hear how providers currently self-assure their practices to meet compliance requirements and deliver quality outcomes for students.  They are most interested in examples from all kinds of providers and across a variety of contexts to build a shared understanding of self-assurance across the sector.  If you are interested in providing feedback to the regulator, you can do so via the button below:

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Date posted Mar 25, 2021