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National Occupational Standards (NOS)

The UK Commission for Employment and Skills worked with a wide range of stakeholders to develop and build consensus on the NOS Strategy. The four governments of the UK approved the NOS Strategy for 2010-20 at the end of March 2010 and agreed that the UK Commission should work with stakeholders in 2010/11 to prototype and pilot a number of aspects and evaluate these by the end of March 2011, to enable the full roll out of the Strategy from April 2011. This has resulted in Version 2 of the NOS Strategy and associated documents being published in June 2011

This work has resulted in four papers:

  • NOS Strategy 2010-2020 - The NOS Quality Criteria have been developed by the UK Commission in partnership with Sector Skills Councils (SSCs) and other standards setting organisations, who are responsible for developing, maintaining and implementing standards which specify the performance required of people in the workplace. This is version 2 revised in June 2011.  
    NOS Strategy 2011 (PDF, 72 Kb) 

 

  • NOS Quality Criteria  – The NOS Quality Criteria have been developed by the UK Commission in partnership with Sector Skills Councils (SSCs) and other standards setting organisations, who are responsible for developing, maintaining and implementing standards which specify the performance required of people in the workplace. This is version 2 revised in June 2011.
    NOS Quality Criteria 2011 (PDF, 107 Kb) 

 

  • Guide to Developing NOS – This is a guidance document for people involved in NOS work. It provides practical guidance for those staff in SSCs and other standards-setting organisations who are responsible for developing, maintaining and improving NOS for employers and staff in their footprints. This is version 2 revised in June 2011
    Guide to Developing NOS 2011 (PDF, 1.4 Mb) 

Please email Josie Armitage if you would like any further information or want to discuss any aspects of   the NOS Strategy.