Continued assessment and independent oversight
What plans are there for DOC to continue monitoring
initial training in the Armed Forces? How will the Directorate
of Operational Capability and the Adult Learning Inspectorate
cooperate in the future? Who will ALI report to when it finishes
its audit in March 2005? In terms of assurance, what does the
ALI offer that cannot be provided by DOC?
DOC has suggested that it should conduct another
Reappraisal of Initial Training in 2007.[42]
In his Statement to the House on 24 May 2004
the Minister for the Armed Forces (Min AF) stated that he had
appointed the Adult Learning Inspectorate (ALI) to conduct independent
inspection and oversight of the armed forces' training establishments.
To this end a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed
between the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and the ALI. The Survey
of the Duty of Care and Welfare Provision in Initial Training
currently being conducted by the ALI is due to be completed and
the report forwarded to the Min AF by Easter 2005. The ALI will
conduct an annual rolling programme of inspections from April
2005.
External inspection by the ALI provides the
MOD with an independent oversight of its training and education
provision from a learner focussed perspective. ALI inspection
against the Common Inspection Framework and subsequent report
publication will enable the MOD training and education provision
to be benchmarked against appropriate national standards where
they apply.
Both the ALI and DOC offer the MOD the opportunity
to review the training provision from a learner focus and operational
perspective respectively. It is the combination of DOC appraisal,
ALI inspection and annual internal audit programmes conducted
either jointly on a Tri-Service basis or by the single Services
that will highlight the issues requiring action and the identification
of good practice. DGTE, acting as the focal point, brings together
the outcomes of audit, appraisal and inspection through the Best
Practice Working Group (BPWG). DGTE has also recently reorganised
resources to enable the formation of the Individual Training Capability
Team who will conduct studies aimed at the identification and
promulgation of best practice.
42 DOC Reappraisal of Initial Training (DOC3) October
2004 paragraph 86. Back
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