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Four Counties Training Ltd
3rd Floor Shaftesbury House
49-51 Uxbridge Road
London
W5 5SA

Chris Brandreth

Tel: +44 20 8840 5132

Fax: +44 20 8840 1700

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Consultancy


FCT provides a wide range of consultancy services to help organisations meet employer and employee needs.

Competence Based Assessment Systems and Qualifications

We offer advice and support on funding to support the development of competence-based assessment systems and qualifications. The types of services we provide are shown below (please note this is not an exhaustive list):

• Analysis of tasks and competence assurance requirements.
• Design and production of assessment policies, procedures and materials.
• Training and supporting company assessors and verifiers through to independence.
• Advice on quality management / internal verification.
• Access to NVQ accreditation where appropriate.
• Integration of NVQ systems into wider human resource strategies.

We have successfully supported organisations within the rail and social care sectors

Standards and Qualifications Bodies

We provide advice and support for Standards and Qualifications Bodies on:

• Development and production of occupational standards.
• Design and pilot of training programmes and assessment systems.
• Mapping content of comparable qualifications.

Sharing expertise

As a Learning and Skills Beacon and an Ofsted Grade 1 provider, we share our expertise and good practice with other providers by presenting case studies and workshops at provider events and visits. We can offer consultancy in the areas of:

• Quality assurance.
• Achieving quality standards.

Research

We are currently engaged in supporting a large employer in the development of a ‘skills for life’ strategy. This involves benchmarking against current activities of similar large organisations, conducting analysis of literacy levels amongst employees, analysis of readability of company documents and developing recommendations to address the gap between the literacy requirements of the employer and the skills of the employees.

This gives employers an accurate assessment of ‘skills for life’ needs within their organisation, enabling the organisation to implement an appropriate development programme which in turn helps the organisation to meet the requirements of the Government’s skills agenda.
The business benefits of introducing skills for life programmes are proven to include:

• Reduction in costs.
• Greater productivity.
• Increase in staff retention.
• Fewer accidents at work.
• Improved customer service.
• Improved compliance with quality procedures.
• Reduced waste of resources.

This type of research can be offered to organisations in any sector.