Hairdressing Apprenticeship Certification in England
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I have been asked by Salon Owners regarding the New procedures for Apprenticeship Certification in England. The information below has been copied for your convenience from the Apprenticships.gov website and you can view the document here: http://www.apprenticeships.org.uk/Partners/Certification.aspx
Your collage or training provider should be able to provide all information needed, however if you need more information or if you have any questions you can email David Martin at david.martin@apprenticeship.gov.uk.
As you may be aware, the majority of the Apprenticeship provisions of the Apprenticeship, Skills, Children and Learning (ASCL) Act are now in force. We are have now written to Providers via the Association of Learning Providers (ALP), Association of Colleges (AoC) and the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) update on the changes this will mean for the way Apprenticeship certificates are issued as stated in the regulations of the Act, and to let them know about the certification service that is currently being developed by the Alliance of Sector Skills Councils.
The Act introduces specific regulations for a new nationally consistent service which comes into force on the 13 April 2011. We have been working with the Alliance and BIS officials to put in place plans for this and have agreed that the Alliance of Sector Skills Councils will be the new certifying authority for England. The Alliance will have this role under a formal delegation, given to them by the Chief Executive of the Skills Funding Agency. When the new service comes into effect SSCs/SSO must cease from issuing certificates under existing arrangements.
The Alliance has put in place transitional arrangements for issuing completion certificates to comply with the requirements of the Act. The Alliance will also be working on developing the new single service further, in order to deliver a streamlined certification service which will commence later in the year.
The issuing of a statutory completion certificate will apply to all apprentices (including both publicly and privately funded) who complete a recognised Apprenticeship framework on or after the 13th April 2011. The new certificate will be of a single national design and the Alliance will send copies of this to providers as soon as it is available. Further details on the delivery and management of this process, in the form of guidance, will be shared with providers by the Alliance as part of their duties in becoming the certifying authority.
The ASCL Act now requires the apprentice to apply for the certificate, however, the application may continue to be facilitated by a college/training provider. We expect the Alliance c/o the relevant SSC/SSO to process the application within 10 days subject to all evidence requirements being met. The Act also introduces a single charging policy for all completion certificates. The maximum cost that can now be charged for issuing an original Apprenticeship completion certificate is £25 or the actual cost (which ever is lower). Any individual who requests a subsequent copy of an Apprenticeship completion certificate the maximum charge will be £30 or the actual cost (again, which ever is the lower).
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Some of the questions I am most frequently asked by salon owners include questions about human resource management and client retention.
The trouble is that salon owners only ask these questions when they have staff problems and need to initiate disciplinary action or when client numbers have reduced and they need to take remedial action.
If these salons had professional Human Resources Policies and a Client Retention Procedure in place they would never need to ask the difficult questions in the first instance. Quite often by the time the salon owner is asking the questions – it’s too late and the business cannot be saved.
If there is one message I can give to the readers of this message it is this. Please spend equal time and budget on business development training as you do creative training.
Why? Because even the most talented stylist in the world is useless without a constant flow of new clients to his or her chair!
If you take this advice your business will grow, if you do not you are very likely to run into trouble in the future.
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Staff Development
Client Retention Guide
Salon Owners Client Retention Guide
A 2% increase in client retention has the same effect on profits as cutting costs by 10%! A 5% reduction in client defection rate can increase profits by 25-125%! When you put client retention into the above context it becomes the salon owners No1 Priority.
Most salon professionals take clients for granted and do not look for opportunities to increase revenue from their existing clients or to ensure client loyalty which leads to life-long retention. Read the Proof! and fix this.
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Salon Managers Business Development Guide
The Salon Managers Guide is a straight talking step-by-step guide to managing the stylist-client work-flow routine’s that are required to optimise the in-salon part of the client experience and the client retention cycle.
This book is a blue-print for salon managers to use as a strategy and a training aid to teach salon staff how to become more productive and more profitable and to take personal responsibility for developing their own column and winning more business.
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Stylists Column Development
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If stylists are to accept responsibility for developing their own column by increasing the average client spend, getting clients to visit the salon more frequently, selling more services and products AND by influencing improved client retention AND winning more new clients:-
You the Salon Owner or Manager must give them the direction they need to achieve this. The stylists guide is their blue-print to tailor the client experience cycle for profitable column growth.
Issue each stylist with a copy at a team meeting and ask them to study it.
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