Centre document library

• City & Guilds Centre Manual (PDF)
• Our Quality Assurance Requirements (PDF) (NEW)
• Technical Qualifications - Guide to Marking and Moderation (PDF, 6MB)
• Technical Qualifications - Guide to Teaching, Learning and Assessment (PDF, 2MB)
• Technical Qualifications – Employer Involvement Centre Guidance (PDF, 9MB)
• Guidance on Internal Quality Assurance of Qualifications (PDF)
• Guide to extracting pages from a PDF document to create a new PDF document (PDF, 75KB)
• Recording Forms for centres and candidates (PDF)
• Guidance on Internal Quality Assurance of Qualifications forms and documents (DOCX, 120KB)
• Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) Policy & Guidance Document (PDF, 200KB)
• Centre Devised Assessment Form (DOCX, 113 KB) | (PDF, 5.44MB) (NEW)
• Centre Devised Assessments - Developing centre devised assessments (GM1) (PDF, 195KB) (NEW)
• Centre Devised Assessments - Generic grading criteria (GM2) (PDF, 65KB) (NEW)
• Centre Devised Assessments - Guidance for IQAs and EQAs (PDF, 116MB) (NEW)
• Guidance for IQAs and EQAs for centre devised assessments (PDF, 102KB) 
• Accreditation Policy (PDF, 130KB)
• Accreditation Quality Assurance Manual (PDF, 3MB)
• Alternative Locations and Subcontractors Policy (v1.0, July 2015) (PDF 85KB)

International customers

• International Qualification Status Guidelines (PDF)
• International Centre Guide (PDF, 2MB) - This guide will help you understand what is required to become a City & Guilds approved centre and provides on-going guidance and support in the delivery of our qualifications. 
• International General Terms & Conditions (PDF, 464KB) - The legal terms and conditions for doing business with us. 

Guidance documents

• JCQ Access Arrangements and Reasonable Adjustments (2019-2020) (PDF, 1MB)
  This JCQ document provides information and guidance on access arrangements and reasonable adjustments for candidates.
• JCQ – A guide to the special consideration process (2018-2019) (PDF, 220KB)
  This JCQ document provides guidance on the process for special consideration. Special consideration may be given following a dated examination for candidates who are present for the examination but may have been disadvantaged, for example, by temporary illness or adverse circumstances during the examination.
• Access arrangements - When and how applications need to be made to City & Guilds (PDF)
  This document provides a short summary for centres on when and how to apply to City & Guilds for access arrangements or special consideration for candidates.
• Applying for access arrangements on the Walled Garden (PDF, 4MB)
  This document provides a step-by-step guide on how to apply for access arrangements on the Walled Garden.

Access forms:

• Access 1 - Request for access arrangements(DOC, 52KB)
  Centres can use this form if they are applying to City & Guilds for access arrangements.
• Access 2 - Application for access arrangements – Profile of Learning Difficulties(DOC, 114KB)
  This form should be completed by the centre for candidates with learning disabilities. This form should be used to collate the evidence and kept on file within the centre. Centres can use either Form Access 2 or JCQ Form 8 (below), there is no need to use both.
• Access 4 - Request for modified, enlarged or Braille question papers (DOC, 52KB)
  This form must be completed by the centre for each candidate who will require unmodified A3 question papers, modified, or Braille examination papers. The completed form should be submitted to City & Guilds, Policy, three months before the month of the examination.
• JCQ Form 8 - Application for access arrangements - Profile of Learning Difficulties (DOC, 156KB)
  This form should be completed by the centre for candidates with learning disabilities. This form should be used to collate the evidence and kept on file within the centre. Centres can use either Form Access 2 (above) or JCQ Form 8, there is no need to use both.

 

Stage 1 - Enquiries

A centre can ask for a candidate’s exam result to be reviewed, alternatively a candidate can request this directly. City & Guilds will arrange for the candidate’s answers to be remarked.

In the case of assessment decisions made by centres, candidates must go through the centre’s own internal appeals procedure.

A centre can request an Enquiry into the Qualification Approval Risk Status/ Qualification Status that has been applied by City & Guilds following external quality assurance activities.

Related documents

• Stage 1 - Candidate enquiry (form E2) 
• Stage 1 - Centre enquiry (form E1)
• Stage 1 - Centre review of moderation (form E4)
• Stage 1 - Centre EQA EV activity (form E3) 

• Enquiries and appeals (PDF 3MB)

Stage 2 and 3 – Appeals

You can ask us to look at:

• examinations results
• decisions regarding qualification (approval risk) status
• decisions concerning the withdrawal or suspension of centre/qualification approval
• decisions, penalties and sanctions resulting from a malpractice investigation
• outcomes of applications for access arrangements or special consideration.

Related documents

• Stage 2 Appeal – exam results (Form A1)
• Stage 2 Appeals (Form A2)

Project qualifications enquiries

For Project qualifications, please use the forms above for enquiries about results. For more information on the processes and timelines, please refer to the document below.

• Joint Council for Qualifications – Post Result Services (PDF, 257KB)

  This document provides information the process for clerical checks, review of original marking, review of original moderation and access to scripts.

Application forms and further information to become a City & Guilds approved centre or to apply for qualification approval.

For the information regarding CA2, please refer to the Quality Portal User Guide.

UK customers

• Additional staffing pages for Centre Update Form and Qualification Approval Form (PDF, 79KB)
• Centre charges list (PDF, 32KB)
• Workplace Skills Quality Statement (DOCX, 76KB)

Centre Update Form

To change your main centre address, billing address, question paper address or delivery address; please go to the Settings tab in your Walled Garden account.

To notify us of any other change, for example a new assessment site or member of staff please submit a Centre Update (CU) form in the Online Forms section within the Walled Garden Quality Portal. You can find further information on how to submit your CU form in our Quality Portal User Guide here.

Qualification Approval Form

If you are an existing City & Guilds centre looking to offer more qualifications you will need to submit a Qualification Approval (QAP) Form within the Walled Garden Quality Portal. Once this has been submitted we’ll be in touch to arrange approval. Please note that it can take up to 30 working days to complete this process. You can find further information on how to submit your QAP in our Quality Portal User Guide here.

If you would like to discuss your Qualification Approval in more detail, please contact your Business Manager of relevant sales executive. You can also complete our Customer Application.

Depending on the qualification you’re applying for, our Quality team may arrange an External Quality Assurer (EQA) approval visit. The EQA is there to check you meet our requirements and to support you with your approval application.

These guidance notes and forms are for customers and centres delivering City & Guilds qualifications and apprenticeships.

They set out the procedures for identifying and reporting malpractice by staff and/or candidates. This is important for the quality assurance of the assessment process by approved City & Guilds customers and centres. The notes also explain the actions City & Guilds may take when we receive allegations of malpractice.

A source document for these is Suspected Malpractice in Examinations and Assessments: Policies and Procedures, published by the Joint Council for Qualifications. We are a member of this Joint Council.

• Investigation Policy (PDF, 2MB)
• Managing cases of suspected malpractice in examinations and assessments (PDF, 6MB)
• Malpractice in end-point assessment (PDF, 2MB)

• Appendix 1 Suspected learner malpractice notification form (Word, 24KB)
• Appendix 3 Suspected centre staff malpractice (Word, 22KB)
• Appendix 6 Moderator notification of suspected malpractice (Word, 15KB)
• Appendix 7 EPA – notification of suspected malpractice (Word, 18KB)
• Appendix 8 Examiner notification of suspected malpractice (Word, 13KB)

• Other supporting documents are available on the Joint Council for Qualifications website.

Please be advised City and Guilds no longer accept registrations via S Form Submission. These will need to be completed through Walled Garden or via EDI upload.

For support please visit the following links:

• Electronic Data Interchange
• Walled Garden user guide (PDF)

Information on how to register your learners, including Unique Learner Numbers (ULNs):

• Diploma Aggregation Service (PDF, 118KB)
• Electronic S Form Help (PDF, 218KB)
• Learners' Walled Garden help card (PDF, 71KB)
• Learners' Walled Garden reports (PDF, 515KB)
• ULN - Information for framework qualification and 14-19 Diploma centres (PDF, 108KB)

The regulations in these documents specify the standard requirements for externally marked examinations and assessments. For certain qualifications some of the requirements may be different, please check the individual qualification handbooks and assessment guides for more information.

UK customers

• Joint Council for Qualifications
  Instructions for conducting examinations 2019-2020 (PDF, 698KB)

  This document provides UK Centres with information on how to conduct City & Guilds examinations.

• Exam guidance for emergencies (PDF, 458KB)
• Examination stationery and entry forms (PDF, 11.2MB)

International customers

• Regulations for the Conduct of Examinations (PDF, 459KB)
  This document provides International centres with information on the administration of examinations.

Documentation on equal opportunity policy and age discrimination legislation.

• Age Discrimination update (PDF, 7KB)
• Equal Opportunities - English (PDF, 31KB)
• Equal Opportunities - Welsh (PDF, 40KB).

Working with children and vulnerable adults

The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) was formed in December 2012 to help employers make safer recruitment decisions and prevent unsuitable people from working with vulnerable groups, including children. It replaced the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA).

The Government also changed the requirements for CRB checks to reflect changes brought about by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012. The impact is that for disclosure and barring purposes a CRB check is only required when working in regulated activities with children or with adults.

For children, ‘regulated activity’ is (1) working in an unsupervised capacity with children on some premises (such as schools) and (2) providing personal physical or health care.

For adults ‘regulated activity’ is primarily concerned with personal physical or health care.

With these changes the previous definitions or frequency and intensity are no longer relevant: the only relevant factor is whether or not the activity is a regulated activity (regardless of frequency or intensity).

Clearly Qualification Consultants activities do not involve them in regulated activities either with children or vulnerable adults. Moreover City & Guilds require that, during their visits, Qualification Consultants should always be accompanied by a member of staff of the centre. Therefore Qualification Consultants are not required to undertake CRB checks and consequently they do not have to agree to centre requests for CRB related checks.

Relevant documents:

• View City & Guilds own Safeguarding Policy (PDF, 484KB)