Webinar Recording: It’s Risky not to Self-Assure your Risks

Recorded on 5/04/2023 this is the third webinar in the Self Assurance Series and was dedicated to unpacking Self Assurance practices. Attendees explored how to identify RTO’s risks and a customised risk management framework, reporting templates and more.

Please note that the revised Standards for Registered Training Organisations were publicly released on 1 October 2024 and will come into full regulatory effect from 1 July 2025.

The Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) 2015 will continue to apply until then.

This webinar recording refers to, and is based on, the requirements for the current regulatory environment.

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Topic overview:

Like all businesses, RTOs carry risks. Understanding and minimising these risks is an essential high order element in Registered Training Organisations’ (RTO) self-assurance regimes. This one-hour webinar supported RTOs to identify their risks through using the information and data collected from their self-assuring practices and in turn, putting in place activities which ensure the RTO is in control.

A customised RTO risk management framework and how to put it into practice will be shared. The presenter shared some simple reporting mechanisms and templates which ensure that RTO Boards/Directors and Managers are well across the RTO’s risks and areas for improvement, directly stemming from the RTO’s self-assurance day to day practices.

This webinar is applicable to CEOs, RTO Managers and Compliance team members.

This webinar aimed to scaffold your RTO’s self-assurance activities, so that they create value and enable your RTO’s ‘ring of self-assurance confidence’ to hum along effortlessly.

What was covered in the session:

• Overview of ASQA’s self-assurance model, its principles and drivers which enable a learning and value-adding institution
• Embedding risk management within an RTO’s self-assuring practices
• Determining RTO risks and controls through self-assuring activities
• RTO managerial accountabilities: interpreting and acting on self-assurance data and information

Webinar content targeted towards:

• CEO/Owners
• RTO/Compliance Managers
• Compliance Personnel
• Heads of Faculty/Department/Area Managers
• Consultants
• Administrators

Webinar duration: 60 minutes

Bio of presenters:

Maria Langwell has worked within the vocational education and training (VET) sector for over 30 years, commencing within TAFE NSW. Within this organisation, Maria held several positions, from Head of the Labour Market Programs Unit at Blacktown Institute of TAFE, through to her final role as General Manager, Strategic Planning and Policy for Western Sydney Institute. On her relocation to Melbourne, Maria worked within the Victorian public service, as the Manager of several priority VET and employment services and programs, such as the Youth Employment Scheme (Victoria’s flagship youth traineeship program), Community Based Employment (CBE) Program, and the Victorian industry training advisory bodies (ITaBs). Her last appointment in the public service was as the Manager, Funded Programs, where Maria was responsible for funding the VET private RTO sector through its user choice and other VET programs. Maria moved into service delivery within Victoria, where she worked at AMES, prior to heading up Spectrum Education and Training (SET), a small community based RTO based in Broadmeadows, Melbourne. Within this period and in recognition of the leadership and vision for servicing the most disadvantaged community members within this region, SET was awarded the 2010 Small Training Provider of the Year. Maria moved to the Australian Council of Private Education and Training (ACPET), where she held the positions of VIC Executive Manager, as well as the General Manager, Business Development. In her time at ACPET, Maria supported compliance and quality across ACPET’s membership base of over 1,000 members as well as the wider VET community, through her initiation of ACPET’s professional development program and health check services. Both services were well received and utilised, with over 8,000 VET professionals attending the PD sessions in 2013-14 alone. Since early 2015, Maria joined the Vocation Group as the Head of Quality Assurance and Education and led 4 out of the RTOs to a fully compliant status. In 2015, Maria embarked on her boutique RTO consultancy service, where she supports RTOs nationally to interpret and apply the range of regulatory and funding requirements.

Maria holds an Executive Master in Public Administration and Management (University of Melbourne), a Master in Education (Administration and Management) (University of Sydney) and a Diploma in Teaching (Sydney Teachers College).

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