Table of Contents Section 1 Employability Skills Training Services 4 Part A - General Employability Skills Training Services 4 Employability Skills Training Services Service Delivery Plan Supervision of Participants Performance indicators Industry Awareness Experiences Incidents 4 4 5 6 6 9 Part B - Specific Employability Skills Training Services 9 Course content Types of Courses to be delivered Course Commencement and duration Mode of delivery Industry Awareness Experiences Participant Commencements Course Completion Exits Monitoring and recording attendance Payments 9 10 10 11 11 11 11 11 12 12 Section 2 General Terms and Conditions 14 Part A - Interpretation and Basic Conditions 14 Definitions and interpretation Term of this Deed Survival General requirements Location and timing of the Services Provider’s conduct Information provided to the Department Checks and reasonable care Provider’s responsibility Joint Charter of Deed Management Liaison and directions Business level expectations Gap filling and additional Services 14 15 15 15 16 16 17 17 18 18 18 19 19 Part B - Some basic rules about financial matters 19 General Evidence to support entitlement to Payments Exclusions Ancillary Payments Overpayment and double payment The Department may vary certain terms Debts and offsetting Taxes, duties and government charges 19 20 20 21 21 21 22 22 23
Services means the services that the Provider is contracted to perform and provide under this Deed. means the one or more physical locations from which the Provider delivers the Services. Social Security Appeals Process means reviews and appeals of decisions made under the Social Security Act 1991 (Cth) or Social Security (Administration) Act 1999 (Cth). Specialist means an EST Provider who is contracted by the Department to deliver Employability Skills Training Services in the context of a particular industry’s or industries work environment (e.g. retail, hospitality, construction). Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) 2015 means the legislative instrument of that name made under subsections 185(1) and 186(1) of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator Act 2011 (Cth). Statement of Applicability or SOA the document of that name that specifies the accreditation requirements for Provider IT Systems, issued by the Department. Subcontract means any arrangement entered into by the Provider by which some or all of the Services under this Deed are provided by another entity. Subcontractor means any party which has entered into a Subcontract with the Provider, including a Material Subcontractor. Supervisor means a person who is engaged or employed by the Provider or by the Host Organisation (where relevant) and provides Supervision of Participants engaged in a Course or in any Industry Awareness Experience. Supervision means the action or process of directly monitoring and managing Participants participating in a Course or in any Industry Awareness Experience. Tax Invoice has the meaning in section 195-1 of the GST Act. Taxable Supply has the meaning given in section 195-1 of the GST Act. Tendering Group means a group of two or more entities, however constituted, other than a partnership, which have entered into an arrangement for the purposes of jointly delivering the Services, and which may have appointed a lead member of the group with authority to act on behalf of all members of the group for the purposes of this Deed, as specified in the Particulars and item 6 of Schedule 1.