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Co-designing for Self Assurance: Phase 3

The co-designed working model for self-assurance provides a framework for providers to identify systems and practices to monitor quality and compliance. Providers can then use these to support continuous improvement against the Standards.

The model has four elements: leadership and governance student engagement and support industry and community engagement staff capability and development. Monitoring quality and compliance against these four elements supports: effective training and assessment delivery quality outcomes and achievement.

These elements and outcomes, the diagram of the working model, and the definition of self-assurance above were all developed with and for the sector, through a co-design process supported by our partners ORIMA Research.

While an important milestone the release of the working model for self-assurance is not an endpoint. ASQA continues to gather information on the practices that providers use to assure their compliance with the Standards and to develop regulatory tools and practices to support them in this. 

ASQA's first quarterly insights report will be published shortly, sharing information on provider self-assurance practices that were captured through ASQA’s Provider and Course Owner Survey.  Later this year ASQA will also be publishing their first annual report on their approach to self-assurance. 

There will also be opportunities for further sector engagement and input into co-design as ASQA develops regulatory approaches that promote provider self-assurance of Standards. These will include co-designed self-assessment tools and piloting new approaches to the annual declaration on compliance.

Access the Report to ASQA on Phase 3 of the VET sector consultations on provider self-assurance here.

Date posted Oct 6, 2022