Training Plan

The Apprenticeship and Traineeship Act 2001 governs the establishment of apprenticeships and traineeships in New South Wales, which includes the requirement that a training plan be developed for every apprenticeship or traineeship established under the Act.

Background

Following consultations, State Training Services has developed a revised training plan to comply with the recommendations made by the MCTEE Apprentices Action Group including that the plan:

• must be developed by the nominated registered training organisation (RTO) in consultation with the employer and the apprentice/trainee to reflect the workplace environment and nature of the work-based training to be undertaken by the apprentice/trainee
• allows for close engagement between the parties and the RTO in the delivery of training and assessment of competencies
• clearly defines the respective roles employers and RTOs will play in training apprentices and trainees, and the support RTOs will provide to employers to assist with training
• is a live document that is reviewed throughout the training term and updated to reflect changes to training undertaken both on and off-the-job
• supports competency-based progression and competency-based completion of apprenticeships and traineeships.

 

Guidelines

The new training plan requirements will apply to all apprenticeship and traineeship applications lodged after 1 January 2011.

The Training Plan Proposal (TPP) and Training Plan (TP) proformas have been amended as at 31 January 2011. New proformas have been provided in both PDF and Word 2007 formats.

• Training Plan Guidelines 

New pdf version with enhanced functionality

Organisations are encouraged to use the PDF versions as Adobe Reader now allows you to enter and save data in PDFs (forms), and provides enhanced functionality over the Word versions.  The PDF versions provided have been designed with a number of features including auto population of select data, auto text sizing, date standardisation, a facility to automatically total school based training hours etc.

In order to access the PDF versions, organisations will need Adobe Reader. Adobe Reader is free and can be downloaded from the Adobe website. 

 

Transition arrangements

Transition arrangements have been established to allow the use of either the existing or new training plan proforma for 6 months until 30th June 2011.

At the end of the transition period all training plans must be developed using only the new Training Plan.

 

Download the new Training Plan

 

• New Training Plan (PDF) (Word - 2007)

 

Existing Training Plans

 

• Full Training Plan
• School Based Apprenticeship Training Plan 
• School Based Traineeship Training Plan

 

Training Plan Proposal

In keeping with current arrangements a Training Plan Proposal (TPP) has been developed to replace the Training Plan Summary.

 

• Training Plan Proposal (PDF) (Word - 2007)

The transition arrangements referred to above do not apply to the TPP. A TPP therefore must be developed at the commencement of the apprenticeship or traineeship and lodged with the Training Contract for all applications made after 1 January 2011 except for those instances where a training plan is required to be lodged with the application.

 

Phillip Moore
Commissioner for Vocational Training