Hello everyone and welcome to this update for Health and Social Care qualifications (level 1/2 and 3). 

There is information on the Tech Awards and the Pause and Reform for the Level 3 qualifications that was announced by the new Government and what it means. 

BTEC Tech Award in Health and Social Care (2022)

September release of the PSA

The PSAs for component 1 and 2 were released in September and if using you will be working through them with your Learners.  The date for uploading all the marked Learners work is 15 December. 

It's a good idea to do it before this date so you can identify any problems with the upload. 

There is lots of information that will help you upload your sample on the Support Index. 

BTEC Tech Award Support Index

Training Events for Marking and Moderation 

There are still some training events for marking and moderation , these have been updated with new content. We will make the recordings of these sessions available  after wards. 

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New Exemplar Standardisation Material 

There is new ESM for health and social care. This is taken from the June PSA so is the most recent release. It has examples of high, medium and low work and includes Lead Moderator comments. It's good to use to standardise your team or if you are a lone teacher just see where the standard is. Look at it with the PSA and the marking grids. 

BTEC Nationals Health and Social Care and Applied Psychology 

What we know about the Pause and Review

The pause and review that was issued by the new Labour Government does not affect the BTEC Nationals that are on the defunding list for 2025.  

At this time we have to carry on business as usual. We do not know what the result of the review will be.  

We are still going ahead with the roll out of the new AAQs and assume the old style nationals will be defunded. This means the September 2024 cohort is the last that is funded at this time.  

As soon as we have more information after the review in December we will let everyone know.   

Training Events for the new AAQs

There are new training events for Health and Social Care and Medical Science.

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