Welcome to your Pearson BTEC Protective Services May 2026 subject update!
Hello colleagues,
This update brings together important dates, a reminder of level 3 teaching and learning materials and details of upcoming training on BTEC Quality Assurance.
As always, please do get in touch with me if you have any queries or I can help with anything.
Best wishes,
Jenna Wyatt
Subject Advisor
To find more dates please see our BTEC key dates and termtime checkpoints guide for 2025/26
Just a reminder that for our BTEC Level 3 National in Uniformed Protective Services qualification we have readily available teaching and learning materials:
Are you engaged in post-16 skills and technical education and want to explore how higher technical qualifications at Levels 4 and 5 can play a stronger role in supporting progression, workforce capability and economic growth?
Pearson are proud sponsors of the new research from the Lifelong Education Institute (LEI) and would like to invite you to an interactive online event where the findings will be presented and discussed with key speakers.
Wednesday 3 June 2026, 10-11.30am
Roles and Responsibilities of the Lead Internal Verifier (UK centres) - 7 May, 15 June
Roles and Responsibilities of the Quality Nominee (UK centres) - 18 June
The DfE has now published the outcomes of the post-16 level 3 and below pathways consultation in England:
Government consultation response
To maintain stability during the transition to the new qualifications, the government has confirmed that existing funded qualifications will remain funded until the reformed qualifications are available.
For Protective Services, this means funding for the current BTEC qualifications will be removed in the academic year 2029 to 2030, to coincide with the availability of the new qualifications. This means you can continue to register learners on the current qualifications until July 2029.
You can read our full response to the outcomes of the consultation our website, as well as our updated funding guides:
Your opportunity to review and respond to reform!
Ofqual have launched a consultation on regulating post-16 vocational and technical qualifications at levels 2 and 3.
Deadline: 2 July 2026
I hope you found this update useful. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch using the contact details below.
