If you had not conducted any assessments in the last 12 months, the registered training organisation may require you to prove that you still have the necessary skills and knowledge required to conduct a workplace assessment. This could require conducting an assessment with a more current workplace assessor. If your learning and development activities within a year exceed the funds available to you, you will need to negotiate support from your workplace supervisor for additional funding within the same year. Under the Certified Agreement, work units are required to fund the Training Initiative. Therefore if your qualification exceeds the learning and development monies available to you, you will need to negotiate support from your workplace supervisor or wait until you have additional learning and development monies available in the following year's budget allocations.
Schools receive two general grants per calendar year.
Learning and development activities are factored into these grants. However, they do not appear as a separate line item in the general grants as there is a belief that schools are in the best position to identify funding priorities to meet the needs of the community. If you already hold qualifications, they should be recorded on your personnel file. You can ensure this occurs by completing the form found on the Qualifications page of the Public Service Training website and forwarding it to your relevant District Office Principal Personnel Officer or the Personnel Support Services Unit in Central Office. It will be important that your existing qualifications are recorded with the department so that eligible employees will receive their pay increase in 2003.