In order to achieve this SkillsActive works to ensure that training is available that meets industry standards and provides the best quality to the sector.
SkillsActive endorsement
Our National Skills Academy for Sport and Active Leisure works with the best training providers in our sector to deliver cost-effective, quality assured training solutions.
Providing training for employees not only helps them develop their skills and knowledge – it’s also a building block to business success.
SkillsActive works with employers and training providers to develop vocational qualifications that enable people to be competent in specific types of work.
Discover more about how SkillsActive ensures that quality training is available to those in the sector.
If you offer fitness training, endorsing your courses allows you offer CPD points to the 30,000 people on the Register of Exercise Professionals – a great pool of motiviated individuals keen to keep their skills updated.
Discover more about the types of endorsement available and find the most relevant for your business!
If you just wish to endorse a single course, workshop or seminar, SkillsActive has a number of options available, allowing you to choose how many courses you endorse and how much you spend.
Discover more about individual course endorsement >
Offer more than one course? Save money and time on multiple endorsement by applying for a training provider endorsement licence!
Discover more about the training provider endorsement licence >
For further information about fitness endorsement and how it can help your business, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or see our set of frequently asked questions.
The new training provider offer has been developed following a consultation period with key industry providers. The offer will be tailored towards the varying needs of different industry providers and look to offer specific benefits to help support business growth.
For further information about SkillsActive's new offer for training providers, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
This offer will be centred on SkillsActive endorsement, working to develop this for the future.
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Whether you are looking for a simple way to monitor staff training online or a full package of personal support, SkillsActive can help ensure that you make the most of the money you invest in training.
Verify staff skills and identify training needs with an online record of qualifications and achievements.
Do you offer training in-house? Gain recognition for the quality of your courses and offer your staff CPD points.
SkillsActive membership offers discounts and access to funding; premium membership gives employers a full support package from a dedicated account manager!
Gain a web based system that manages how staff can access the online training courses you wish them to complete.
A course is a unit of teaching that is led by one or more tutors, teachers or professors and made up of individual sessions, typically on a fixed schedule or scheme of work. It may combine a range of learning formats, such as practical sessions and lectures and will contain a mandatory invigilated assessment, either practical and/or written depending on the submission.
Category 1 courses can be delivered via online/home learning formats, although all practical assessments must be completed face to face with the learner or submission of a video.
This category of CPD training requires a minimum of eight hours of learning (not including assessment) and must be mapped in part to the relevant national occupational standards.
In today’s competitive market, SkillsActive endorsement means:
A range of different endorsement options are available for each sector.
If you offer fitness training, endorse your courses to offer CPD points to the 30,000 people on the Register of Exercise Professionals.
Discover more about the types of endorsement available and find the most relevant for your business!
Fitness endorsement options include:
For further information about fitness endorsement and how it can help your business, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or see our set of frequently asked questions.
From a simple Centre Verification Check to a licence endorsing all the training you offer, SkillsActive offers endorsement options for all types of playwork training.
Discover more about playwork endorsement >
For further information about playwork endorsement and how it can help your business, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
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CPD Category 1C (courses) |
Minimum pre-requisite qualification |
Appropriate CPD level |
Units from the NOS that submission should map to: |
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Obesity/diabetes |
Level 3 Certificate in Exercise Referral |
Level 4 |
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Falls prevention |
Level 3 Certificate in Exercise Referral |
Level 4 |
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Mental health |
Level 3 Certificate in Exercise Referral |
Level 4 |
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Stroke |
Level 3 Certificate in Exercise Referral |
Level 4 |
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Cardiac disease |
Level 3 Certificate in Exercise Referral |
Level 4 |
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Back pain |
Level 3 Certificate in Exercise Referral |
Level 4 |
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Chronic respiratory disease |
Level 3 Certificate in Exercise Referral |
Level 4 |
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Cancer rehabilitation |
Level 3 Certificate in Exercise Referral |
Level 4 |
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Long term neurological conditions |
Level 3 Certificate in Exercise Referral |
Level 4 |
For more information email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
REPs recognised level 4 Specialist Exercise Instructor courses cover the following areas:
Level 4 courses MUST fully map to the relevant National Occupational Standard.
There are two routes a training provider can take to gain REPs recognition for a level 4 course.
Training providers who also wish to offer level 4 CPD courses may want to consider applying for a SkillsActive level 4 training provider licence.
The level 4 application dates for 2011-2012 are:
It takes approximately 12 weeks to gain either an approval in principle, referral for additional information, resubmission or rejection.
All level 4 training providers will be required to undergo a quality inspection visit by a SkillsActive trained inspector. Courses do not gain full approval until after a successful quality inspection visit.
Level 4 courses and level 4 CPD provided as part of a level 4 training provider license are valid for two years. After two years you can renew your approval without the need to re-submit in full, ensuring to inform us of any significant changes that have been made to the original submission.
Course pre-requisites refer to the qualifications or experience that an individual must have attained before they embark on a level 4 course. Course providers MUST adopt the following minimum pre-requisites to determine eligibility of candidates accessing their level 4 course/level 4 CPD.
1. Registration status of full level 3 Instructor on REPs (with any level 3 category, provided it is accepted by the level 4 training provider*)
2. 150 hours of relevant professional practice at level 3 in designing, delivering, monitoring, adapting and tailoring exercise programmes for individuals gained within the previous 2 years and at least 6 months experience since qualification (this should be reflected in the CV and reference letter)
3. Completion of the online Professional Practice Unit. This can be found in the members’ area of the website and is free to complete**
* Yoga and Pilates instructors who do not hold a level 2 qualification in gym, exercise to music or aqua, may not fulfil the pre-requisite entry requirements of some level 4 training providers. Some level 4 training providers may require the exercise referral category of registration as a pre-requisite.
** Those who have undertaken a new exercise referral qualification (i.e. one that is listed on the qualifications and credit framework (QCF) that has replaced the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) will not be required to complete this online CPD since it has been embedded into the new exercise referral National Occupational Standard and will form part of new exercise referral qualifications
N.B. from September 2011 an exercise referral qualification will also form part of the requirements.
Consultancy support is available to training providers wishing to gain Level 4 approval. For example, this can include undertaking the mapping of course materials to National Occupational Standards. For further details contact our endorsement team at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
We understand that there are some training providers who want to develop and deliver multiple training courses, which are recognised as endorsed training for CPD, without having to submit each individual course for evaluation every time.
The training provider licence allows training providers, that have met the set criteria, to be able to submit multiple courses for submission, throughout the length of their licence.
If you offer a number of training courses related to exercise and fitness on a regular basis, you may wish to become a licensed provider for endorsed training.
We understand that training organisations have different priorities and offer many varied pieces of training (workshops, conferences, seminars through to courses).
SkillsActive has developed a training provider licence to suite any training organisation at a cost that can be tailored to suite your needs. For example, we have 3 categories:
Should you only deliver a certain category then you only need to supply that category as your initial submission and then from there on deliver training as and when a skill shortage or a demand arises. If however, later you wish to deliver different categories of training then you can upgrade at any time by contacting This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. please note that in order to deliver a different category above the one you initially submitted then we would require an additional submission to ensure that we have verification that you can meet this standard.
The standard submission process involves completing the Training Provider application form and attaching all the criteria requested online. Should you not fully understand the criteria then please refer to the submission guidance pack that gives detailed information on how to meet our criteria.
Once you have submitted it will then be sent to an industry expert and evaluated. For further information on the process please refer to the submission guidance pack.
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