Wales Essential Skills updates

September 2018

Following Qualification Wales’ review of the implementation of Essential Skills Wales Qualifications it has been agreed that it will be possible for learners to take a partial re-sit of the Essential Skills Communications controlled task where they have been unsuccessful with one or two parts of their controlled task. The Asset Management Group have issued guidance for centres in managing this process which is available here.

15 March 2018

A number of older controlled tasks have been removed from the qualifications page and are no longer available for use after 31 March 2018.

Any stocks of these tasks held by centres must be destroyed.

The table below lists the assessments which have been withdrawn:

	Set 1	Set 2
ECommS Level 1	Community & Politics - Voting	Sport & Leisure – Exercising Outdoors
ECommS Level 2	Business – Starting a Business	Employment – Job Interviews
ECommS Level 3	Employment - Space Exploration	Sport & Leisure – Sports Drinks and Diodydd Chwaraeon
EAoNs Level 1	Employment	Sport & Leisure
EAoNs Level 2	Finance – Paying for a Holiday	Sport & Leisure – Designing a fitness programme and Diodydd Chwaraeon
EAoNs Level 3	Finance	Engineering
EDLS Entry Level 1	Set 1 – Health & Fitness
EDLS Entry Level 2	Set 1 – Sport & Leisure
EDLS Entry Level 3	Set 1 - Health & Wellbeing
EDLS Level 1	Set 1 – Employment – Recruitment day
EDLS Level 2	Set 1 - Travel & Tourism - Staycation
EDLS Level 3	Set 1 – Travel & Tourism - Staycation