Please note that the Acceptable Evidence Guidance Document has been reviewed, updated and reissued. This is now Version 3 19th December 2014

At the front of this document there is a table which summarises the changes made.

A copy of the guidance can be found on the Knowledge Base Tab of the ACE website: Acceptable Evidence Guidance V3

Version 2 September 2014 remains available on the Ace website, for reference.

We are reviewing the document on a monthly basis to ensure it remains up-to-date and accurate. If you have any evidence types that are not currently included in the guidance, but you believe do meet the minimum data requirements for acceptable evidence, then please forward these to us using the online ACE Helpdesk. These will be presented and discussed at our monthly review meetings and a decision made as to whether or not the new evidence type can be accepted or not. Either way we will let you know.

Any other feedback/comments on the document will be most welcome.

Thank you to everyone who took part in the ACE-IT Christmas competition for the final week.

The 1st prize of a hot drinks machine goes to Lauren Cowley from North East Chamber of Commerce – well done Lauren!!

Lauren was the first person to submit evidence of her 100% ACE-IT score.

We also have another 2 worthy runners-up who also scored 100% but their evidence was submitted following Lauren’s successful claim!

As a festive gesture, we will be sending them each a £15 gift voucher.

The runners-up were:

• Jonathan Kaufman of Buckinghamshire Adult Learning
• Christopher Hickman of JTL Training

Well done to all our winners this week and all those who have won over the past few weeks.

We hope you all have a great Christmas and all the best for the New Year.

The Laboratory and Science Technicians framework is changing ownership from SEMTA to Cogent as of 2^nd Jan 2015. If you have not previously worked with Cogent you will need to add them to your linked bodies. To do this your main admin will need to log in and go to the Organisation details tab.

Within this tab you will see the tab Linked Bodies. This tab will show you a list of all of the Certification Bodies. You simply need to select Cogent followed by the update button at the bottom of the list. This will then save the updated list.

Now you have added Cogent to your linked CB’s all of Cogent’s frameworks will be listed and you will be able to submit Apprenticeship Certification Claims against the Laboratory and Science Technicians framework.

If you already work with Cogent the frameworks should automatically appear when you first log in after the 2^nd Jan 2015. If you cannot see the frameworks after this date please contact the ACE Support Team.

Please note that any Apprenticeship Certification Claims currently awaiting certification will remain with SEMTA only new apprentices will be registered with Cogent. If you have any at the entered stage these will need to be entered under Cogent.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact the ACE support team via the helpdesk.

The Federation offices will be closed from 5pm on the 24th December and will open its doors again on the 2nd of January 2015 from 10am until 3pm. Normal business hours will resume on the 5th of January.

Congratulations to Bruce Davis from Acacia Training who has won the second of our three coffee machines.

Bruce was the first person to submit evidence of his 100% ACE-IT score.

We also have another 2 worthy runners-up who also scored 100% but their evidence was submitted following Bruce’s successful claim!

As an extra festive gesture, we will be sending them each a £15 gift voucher.

These will be sent to

• Kathryn Makin of Nelson and Colne College

• Matt Bishop from Hull City Council

Well done to all our winners this week and remember that the final competition is running this week so don’t forget to go ACE-IT!!!

Congratulations to Toni Knowles from YH Training services who has won the first of our three coffee machines.

Toni was the first person to submit evidence of her 100% ACE-IT score.

Having said that there were also many other submissions made after Toni submitted hers. So as we are in the festive spirit at the moment we will be sending two runners up a £15 voucher.

These will be sent to

• Matt Bishop from Hull City Council
• Vicky West from the Mitre Group

A big congratulations to all of our week one winners.

Don’t forget we have another 2 weekly competitions, one this week and one next week, so go ACE-IT!!!