1.  Professional and Statutory Standard documents:

The following section provides links to standard documents from a range of organizations and bodies, which specifically relate to education and training.  Other standards relating to proficiency, conduct and ethics can be found in the professional and statutory body sites listed in the ‘Other Sites’ section of this website.

• The NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework (NHS KSF) and the Development Review Process is available from the Department of Health website (use the ‘search this site’ facility for ‘Knowledge and Skills Framework’). http://www.dh.gov.uk/PublicationsAndStatistics/Publications/fs/en

• Health Professions Council standards of education and training. http://www.hpc-uk.org/aboutregistration/standards/sets/index.asp

• This page on the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s website can access the consultation document and final report of the ‘Consultation on a Standard to Support Learning and Assessment in Practice’.  http://www.nmc-uk.org/aFrameDisplay.aspx?DocumentID=1914

• This Higher Education Authority site gives details of a ‘Standards Framework for Teaching and Supporting Learning in Higher Education’.  http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/regandaccr/StandardsFramework.pdf

• This page on the General Social Care Council’s website can access quality assurance reports on social work education and the guidance document ‘Assessment of Practice in the Workplace’. http://www.gscc.org.uk/For+course+providers/Ensuring+course+quality/

• The N.I. Social Care Council site gives information on a range of draft standards including the draft NISCC Standard for Practice Learning Providers. http://www.niscc.info/projects/default.htm

• This page on the Scottish Social Services Council website gives access to a range of documents including ‘Assuring Quality for Practice Teaching’. http://www.sssc.uk.com/Education+and+training/Quality+assurance+of+social+service+qualifications/Assuring+quality+manuals.htm

• This page on the Care Council for Wales website can access the ‘Standards for Practice Learning in the Social Work Degree’ document.  http://www.ccwales.org.uk/DesktopDefault.aspx

• A link to the NHS Scotland standards on clinical placements: http://www.nes.scot.nhs.uk/docs/publications/PracticePlacements_NESQA02.pdf

• This is the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education's code of practice on assessing placement learning. It includes material on roles and responsibilities of the relevant parties in the assessment of practice-based learning. http://www.qaa.ac.uk/academicinfrastructure/codeOfPractice/section9/default.asp

• This site gives information on the ‘National Occupational Standards for Management and Leadership’.  http://www.management-standards.org/

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