activematters | Internal Quality Assurance Policy
The Lead Internal Verifier (IQA) will be responsible for ensuring that the assessments carried out are sufficient, valid, reliable and fair.
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activematters | Confidentiality Statement in Regard to Assessment
During the course of assessment, assessors are privy to certain pieces of confidential information in respect of the learner or service user, the following statement must be adhered to at all times by all assessors.
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ACCESS TO ASSESSMENT POLICY We wish to ensure access and equal opportunities for our candidates while safeguarding the integrity of the qualification. This will be done as follows:- At the initial assessment and before...
Read MoreLabour manifesto to ban junk food adverts aimed at children before 9pm
MAILONLINE | TOM MCTAGUE | DEPUTY POLITICAL 15 January 2015 Junk food adverts aimed at children face being BANNED before the watershed under Labour plan to tackle Britain’s obesity crisis Labour manifesto to...
Read MoreProject Wild Thing Reconnecting kids with nature
Project Wild Thing is a film led movement to get more kids (and their folks!) outside and reconnecting with nature.
Read MoreFive simple ways to help your child get into the wild
The Guardian | Patrick Barkham | Tuesday 13 January 2015 The Oxford Junior Dictionary may have dropped words such as ash and catkin but let’s not jettison nature for the nagging demands of...
Read MoreA Manifesto for PE and School Sport
Youth Sport Trust Chair Baroness Sue Campbell has today launched the charity’s ‘Unlocking Potential’ manifesto for PE and school sport which sets out where action is required by any future Government to tackle the growing physical inactivity crisis.
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High quality PE and sport can be used as a powerful tool to improve our nations’ health, education and sporting prospects. In this manifesto we are asking the next Government for a joined-up, cross- departmental approach...
Read MoreAlarming fall in school PE lessons casts doubt over government’s commitment to tackling obesity crisis
The Telegraph | Ben Rumsby | 14 Jan 2015 Exclusive: Amount of PE offered to children in England has plummeted, in defiance of goverment promises made to use London 2012 to ‘Inspire a Generation’ of youngsters to become more...
Read MoreInactivity ‘kills more than obesity’
BBC News website | James Gallagher | Health editor | 15 January 2015 A lack of exercise could be killing twice as many people as obesity in Europe, a 12-year study of more than 300,000 people suggests. University of...
Read MoreNational Obesity Awareness Week from 12 to 18 January
Marketing Week | Alison Millington | 12 Jan 2015 Anti-obesity groups call for sugar cuts as retailers take action The National Obesity Forum is calling for mandatory regulations on fat, salt and sugar content in...
Read MoreOxford Junior Dictionary’s replacement of ‘natural’ words with 21st-century terms sparks outcry
The Guardian | Alison Flood | Reference and languages | Tuesday 13 January Margaret Atwood and Andrew Motion among authors protesting at dropping definitions of words like ‘acorn’ and...
Read MoreRegular naps are ‘key to learning’
BBC News website | James Gallagher | Health editor, 13 January 2015 The key to learning and memory in early life is a lengthy nap, say scientists. Trials with 216 babies up to 12 months old indicated they were unable to...
Read MoreCouncil for Learning Outside the Classroom
Learning outside the classroom changes lives… Council for Learning Outside the Classroom is the national voice for learning outside the classroom. We believe that every young person (0-19yrs) should experience the...
Read MoreNSPCC launches social network awareness campaign
BBC News | Scotland | 9 January 2015 A leading children’s charity has launched a campaign highlighting the risks of social networking, aimed at young people and their parents. It was introduced after many children...
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