Accreditation is granted for a scope and a period. Learn to track what you actually hold, spot the date that expires first, and handle change without drifting outside it.
By the end, you can
describe the limits of an accreditation, identify what causes it to lapse or be exceeded, and set up monitoring that gives useful warning.
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Staying Accredited — Scope, Expiry and Change
Getting it is not keeping it
Accreditation arrives as a letter and a great deal of relief. Then the organisation goes back to work, the letter goes into a folder, and the slow drift begins. 📆
A new qualification is added because a client asked. A second venue opens. A staff registration lapses. A date passes. Nothing dramatic happens on any single day, and then one day the organisation is operating outside what it holds — usually without anyone having decided to.
This MicroQuest is about not letting that happen.
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Secure and evidence the workplace side — agreements, mentors, logbooks and learner placement — the part of an application that depends on someone else.
Learn how the QCTO system fits together — the roles of the QCTO, an SDP, an AQP and a SETA, and how an occupational qualification is actually built.
Learn which policy areas a training provider needs, what turns a document into a controlled policy, and how to keep a QMS alive instead of letting it expire quietly.
Know who issues what at the end of a qualification, why your accreditation letter may forbid certificates, and how to keep credential records defensible.
Separate internal assessment from external, understand what moderation is for, and get the EISA and FISA sequence the right way round.
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Staying Accredited — Scope, Expiry and Change
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