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Awarding Bodies & Centres
The Awarding Bodies and Centres strategic working group strategically lead on improving relationships between awarding bodies and centres. This group has a particular focus on reducing bureaucracy, centre recognition, e-assessment and access to assessment.
This group meets every six weeks, with additional meetings as required. Minutes from the strategic working group can be accessed on the FAB members website.
FAB also recently established an Access to Assessment working group, which reports into the strategic working group. Minutes of these meetings are also available on the members' website.
There is also an awarding bodies and centres sub group which are looking at centre recognition forms and guidance. Minutes of these meetings are also available on the members' website. This working group also reports into the strategic working group.
Information Authority Report 'Identifying and Quantifying the Provider Data Burden'
The Federation has welcomed the Information Authority 'Identifying and Quantifying the Provider Data Burden' published on 2 July. The Executive Summary can be accessed here.
The Federation has issued a statement saying that its Awarding Bodies and Centres Strategic Working Group will work with the Information Authority to explore improvements. This statement can be accessed here.