1. HALFWAY TO BIG BANG Ensuring competence, promoting excellence...

• Liz Campbell Director (Education and Training Policy)

• Collette Paterson Deputy Director (Education and Training Policy)

2. INTRODUCTION

• End of consultation/start of implementation

• Milestones and timescale to 2011 implementation

• Communications strategy

• Use of website as resource base

3. AN EDUCATION ROADMAP Education begins at the Foundation stage, takes a professional turn at PEAT 1, qualification concludes during the workplace with PEAT 2, and education continues as life long learning in the form of CPD. Foundation Programme Professional Education & Training (PEAT) 1&2 Continuing Professional Development

4. THE FOUNDATION PROGRAMME

• New terminology for LLB/LSS exams

• More flexibility for universities

• Move from prescribed professional subjects to learning outcomes

• Exempting Scottish degree programme: at least 190 SCQF credits devoted to learning outcomes in degree programme of at least 240 credits of law

Foundation Programme

5. THE FOUNDATION PROGRAMME

• Combined Foundation and PEAT 1 programmes permitted

• Practice based questions used as further method of assessment

• Replacement of LSS exams with graduate level non-law degree route

Foundation Programme

6. THE FOUNDATION PROGRAMME

• Transitional arrangements

• Drafting of accreditation guidelines

• Timescale for accreditation to run programmes in from 2011

• Accreditation guidelines issued to providers next month

• Post of Accreditation Officer

Foundation Programme

7. PEAT

• The many faces of the Diploma

• The glue that holds it all together?

• The Diploma, but not as we know it

• From Diploma to PEAT 1

• Key developments:

• • PEAT 1&2 two parts of a

• • whole

• • Mandatory Outcomes

• • Electives in the true sense

PEAT 1

8. COMMON OUTCOMES (PEAT) PEAT 2 PEAT 1 Professionalism Professional ethics and standards Professional Communication

9. PEAT

• The standard of the Day 1 trainee and the Qualifying Solicitor

• Improved [ quarterly?] reviews, e-portfolios, and guidance.

• Less Sugar, more reality.

• PCC the end is nigh

• A new era TCPD

? ? PEAT 2

10. CPD

• 20 hours per annum

• Focus on identification of training needs, participation in training and evaluation of benefit of training

• Templates to assist in the process; good practice guidelines and examples of activities that will count towards CPD

• Wider range of activities permitted

• Practice of carrying forward/back to cease

• Nomination of training partner or supervisor

• Effective from November 2011

CPD

11. KEY DATES EVENT DATE New admission regulations enclosed with AGM papers. MAY 2010 Final policies on Trainee CPD, including cost and flexibility of this element finalised and communication commencing with potential Trainee CPD providers and training firms. JUNE 2010 New admissions regulations come into force in relation to flexible options for traineeships. SEPTEMBER 2010 Prospective providers of Trainee CPD given a full package of information on what Trainee CPD will include, so that they may apply for accreditation of appropriate elements. SEPTEMBER 2010 Pilot of PEAT 2 commences with cross-section of the profession, so that proposed learning Outcomes, assessment methods, and quality assurance of PEAT 2 can be tested. FROM SEPTEMBER 2010 Accreditation of Trainee CPD Providers. JAN-JUNE 2011

12. KEY DATES EVENT DATE Final suite of documents in relation to the practicalities of the new PEAT 2 and CPD distributed. JAN/FEB 2011 Full admissions regulations come into force. SEPTEMBER 2011 New Foundation (LLB) and PEAT 1 (Diploma) courses commence in universities across Scotland. SEPTEMBER 2011 PEAT 2 rolled out across all training organisations in Scotland, with Trainee CPD and PCC both deemed to be Trainee CPD for a transitional period for trainees qualifying up to September 2013. SEPTEMBER 2011 New CPD rules come into force. NOVEMBER 2011 For any trainee qualifying after September 2013, Trainee CPD is the only option available as PCC is definitively discontinued. SEPTEMBER 2013

13. CLOSING REMARKS