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Assured – training validation and quality assurance

Helping employers and training providers demonstrate the quality of their training and increase participants’ engagement.

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What is Assured?

Assured is City & Guilds’ validation and quality assurance service for bespoke training programmes that employers or training providers have created themselves.

As well as proving that your training is best in class, Assured enables you to recognise participants with digital credentials from our globally respected brands. 

We assess the way in which you plan, design, maintain and evaluate your training, drawing on our expertise in skills development.

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What programmes can be Assured?

We can validate and quality assure training programmes from any sector or industry because we review your systems and processes, not the content or delivery of your training. 

Leadership and management programmes are Assured by ILM, a part of City & Guilds. 

 

You bring:

      Business rationale – how the training aligns with your organisation’s strategy                                                       

      Subject matter expertise – deep knowledge of the content your training must cover                                     

      Clarity on the learning outcomes your training aims to achieve                                                                                      

We bring:

      The Assured Benchmark – our global quality standard that we can apply to any training, no matter how specialised it is

      Recommended improvements to help you enhance the quality of your training 

      Digital credentials to formally recognise learners’ achievements

How will Assured benefit you and your organisation? 

See the benefits for employers       See the benefits for providers

Is training quality assurance the same as training accreditation? 

If you’re looking for an external body to benchmark your training, you’ve probably discovered that different organisations refer to this in different ways. You might see references to ‘accredited training’, ‘endorsed programmes’, ‘approved programmes’ or ‘recognised programmes’. 

At City & Guilds, we describe our benchmarking service as ‘training validation and quality assurance’ because we want to be clear about the scope. We focus on your systems and processes, not the content of your training. This makes Assured more flexible – we work around your programmes and their outcomes, rather than forcing them to fit a rigid framework or align to regulated qualifications. 

Whatever terminology you’re familiar with, if you want an independent organisation to review your training then City & Guilds is the partner you need, with almost 150 years of expertise in skills development.

Talk to our specialist teams

 

If you’re an employer… 

With years of experience working with HR and L&D teams, our specialists can help you showcase the quality of your internally developed training. 

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If you’re a training provider… 

Our specialists support hundreds of training providers, ensuring that their training stands out in competitive markets. 


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Please note: Assured is designed for bespoke training and learning programmes and, as such, is not subject to regulatory requirements and conditions. Any use of terms such as ‘accreditation’, ‘validation’, ‘recognition’, ‘approval’ or ‘quality assurance’ in relation to Assured programmes does not indicate formal approval by a regulatory authority.