![]() ![]() ![]() It was set at a level 3 and developed under the Welsh Apprenticeship Framework to include Essential Skills level 2 (literacy, numeracy and ICT). This was mapped across by EAL to create a qualification. We agreed that the qualification would be developed from the current TfW train driver training structure. In September 2020 Ian Thompson, ASLEF Company Council Secretary, and I attended the first stakeholders meeting with Transport for Wales (TfW) and the partner organisations who had come on board to develop the qualification: Coleg Y Cymoedd (the apprenticeship provider partner) and EAL (specialist-skills awarding body. The Minister was keen to support the qualification and, on 5 March 2020, wrote to instruct that the working group should liaise with Qualifications Wales to oversee the design of the new qualification and commission an awarding body. Thanks to a long history of partnership working with the Welsh Government, ASLEF was able to call on our existing relationship with Ken Skates, Minister for Economy, Transport and North Wales, to explain the problem. This was obviously frustrating for the working group. The award bodies said that the number of people who would take on the apprenticeship each year was too low to warrant its development. Transport for Wales worked with awarding bodies to try to get the qualification off the ground but this was when we met our main challenge. ![]()
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