A constant complaint from Victorian contracted RTOs is the lack of guidance from the Department around technology and how it can and can’t be used to meet contractual requirements. With the cost of compliance an ever-increasing burden on organisations, many are seeking web-based, streamlined solutions to gain efficiencies across the business.
Let’s take a look at what you can and can’t do under the Skills First contract.
A part of the Skills First contract that has always confused providers, the Disallowed Persons requirement states that a contracted RTO should not engage/employ/contact/deal with, a disallowed person. What actually constitutes a disallowed person has always been ambiguous.
Let’s explore the meaning of this in more detail.
With the Skills First contract extension granted until end of 2020, comes a series of contractual and data reporting changes with it. Hopefully, you managed to navigate your end of year data reporting with ease and are now focused on updating your business processes to ensure compliance with the 2020 requirements. In this article, we have outlined some of the changes we think you should be looking at carefully.
In this article, we take a look at our auditing experiences across 2018 and 2019 with Skills First contracted RTOs and give you our top 5 traps that Skills First funded RTOs are falling into.
