Skills, Certifications and Qualifications for employers and training providers

Helping your justice and community safety, armed forces, local government and healthcare workers to develop their skills and operate more effectively.

Working with your business in partnership, we’ll help you by providing your current and future workforce development needs. Get a personal and practical service based on our sector knowledge and experience.

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Isn’t it time to certify your learners with an industry-recognised badge?

When you know that a regulated qualification isn’t going to meet your business’ – or learner’s – needs, but you still want a recognised badge at the end of your course.

Gain trusted and quality assured certification for your unique learning experiences and organisation, with our Custom Certification Service.

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End-Point Assessment (EPA) provider for public sector employers

Our team of industry-leading experts and independent end-point assessors understand the challenges faced by levy-paying employers delivering apprenticeships, and the pressure of delivering quality assured end-point assessment.

We provide a comprehensive EPA service delivered by sector specialists, to help bring the EPA to life and support employers when preparing apprentices for assessment.

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We work with employers and training providers to help people working across a range of industries, to deliver meaningful learning and development outcomes, that improve skills, provide flexibility and enhance jobs.

We believe in working in partnership with our customers and Approved Centres, to meet current and future workforce development needs, through Recognised Qualifications, Quality Assurance & Custom Certification, and industry-leading End-Point Assessment.

Our personal, practical service for Approved Centres is built on a foundation of the in-depth sector knowledge and experience of our team.

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Products and Services

End-Point Assessment

An approved EPA organisation with a wealth of experience in Apprenticeships.

Custom Certification

Assuring and certificating non-regulated learning programmes.

Quality Assurance

An essential part of the assessment process to ensure robustness and quality.

Qualifications

Regulated qualifications that are valuable support the vocational training of tomorrow’s workforce.

New Insights Webinar: Plagiarism and the Professional as Learner: Pressures, Pitfalls and Prevention

There are several challenges that occur when learners are also members of the workforce of the organisation that is directly training them. Pressures from work can mean that time to study and to prepare and submit work for assessment can become squeezed, creating additional pressures for the learner which can show up in many ways. Throughout this webinar you will have the opportunity to hear from Mike Cunningham QPM who will be sharing his insights and experiences of over 30 years of policing and reflect on this important topic with reference to his time as Chief Executive of the College of Police.

Have your say on the future skills development and training needs of the UK workforce

“It’s vitally important that as many learners, centres, employers, and training providers participate in the national ‘Developing a Resilient Workforce’ survey to ensure a fair, well-rounded, and considered view of the future needs for training across key sectors in the UK. I am personally fascinated to find out, through the robust methodologies of Skills for Justice’s Research Division, what the post-pandemic learning and development needs are for people across a range of industries, and encourage anyone involved in skills or training to take part.” Candace Miller, Managing Director, SFJ Awards

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Introducing the new SIA Licence-linked Qualifications

New SIA-Licence linked qualifications from SFJ Awards, the leading vocational qualifications awarding body for safety, security, and public sector training. Developed in collaboration with the Security Industry Authority (SIA), and industry-leading experts, to support the ongoing professionalisation of the security and public safety sectors.

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Choose to Challenge Events by Women in Fire Service UK

“We’re very happy to be supported by SFJ Awards through the provision of Certificates of Attendance for our virtual events. Not only does it add value for attendees to have a nationally recognised awarding organisation provide certificates but also gives us the opportunity to form a new partnership with a trusted not-for-profit organisation.” – Jules King, Chair, Women in Fire Service UK

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Find free Learning and Development resources and webinars

Find a range of free on-demand webinars and virtual events hosted by the SFJ Awards team with special guests, to help you navigate a variety of learning and development changes. All our on-demand webinars are less than 1-hour long, and we plan to release further webinar and event dates for Summer 2021, very soon.

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Enhancing public safety training with new suite of qualifications

Introducing SFJ Awards Spectator Safety Qualifications, including four qualifications from Level 2 to Level 4. The standards and assessment strategies, revised in 2019, developed by SkillsActive, the Sector Skills Council for Active Leisure and Learning, and the Sports Ground Safety Authority (SGSA).

Find new Safety Qualifications

COVID-19 Guidance for End-Point Assessment (EPA)

We understand and appreciate the challenges you’re facing during these unprecedented times. To support you to navigate the challenges of delivering End-Point Assessment and External Quality Assurance solutions, we’ve developed and maintained a range of FAQs and resources available throughout the pandemic.

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Developing a Resilient Workforce Research | SFJ Awards Survey

by SFJ Awards on 5 May 2021

Have your say on the future of Skills Training, Apprenticeships and more in national research aimed at developing a resilient workforce

The landscape of skills development and training over the last year has shifted and altered dramatically month on month, as various sectors both in public and private industry, have had to adapt to new ways of developing their people.

by SFJ Awards on 15 June 2021

What is plagiarism in professional practice and how can it be managed and ideally prevented?

Plagiarism is the concept of presenting other people’s content, words, or ideas as if they’re your own. Often found…

by SFJ Awards on 15 June 2021

Candace Miller joins Federation of Awarding Bodies Board of Directors

We are delighted to announce that our Managing Director, Candace Miller, has been co-opted as a non-executive director to…

Made for Learning | Learning at Work Week | Virtual Learning | SFJ Awards

by SFJ Awards on 20 May 2021

Celebrating Learning and Development year in, year out, with the National Learning at Work Week Impact Awards

This year, we are celebrating initiatives throughout Learning at Work Week with the ‘SFJ Awards Connecting People through Virtual Learning’ Impact Award. The award will recognise winners independently from the public and third/charity sector, as well as L&D programmes put forward by private sector employers.

by Charlotte Alderson on 13 May 2021

Meet the SFJ Awards Team: John McCreadie

“I would say the investigating and information gathering aspect is the most enjoyable and interesting when it leads to solving a problem for a Centre or identifying new opportunities to make continuous improvement to our services. “