EPA Enquiries & Appeals Request Form

EPA Enquiries & Appeals Request Form guidance notes:

As detailed in our EPA Enquiries & Appeals Policy, the purpose of an Enquiry about EPA Assessment is to ensure that our internal quality assurance standards were fair, reliable, and consistently applied during the entire assessment process and the grade achieved was accurate.

The Enquiry about EPA assessment will provide:

• Clerical Check of one or more assessments within EPA
• Review of Marking of one or more method(s) of assessment within the EPA

As detailed in our EPA Enquiries & Appeals Policy, the purpose of an Appeal is to ensure that we have applied the correct processes, procedures, and policies in a fair and consistent way.

The appeals procedure will cover:

• Enquiries about EPA Assessment;
• A decision relating to EPA reasonable adjustments or special considerations;
• The outcome of an EPA Preliminary stage appeal.

The appeals procedure will not cover:

• Outcome of a maladministration or malpractice investigation*;
• Outcome of a decision to impose a sanction resulting from a malpractice or maladministration investigation.;
• Termination of product and/or centre approval status for maladministration or malpractice, or termination for breach of the centre agreement.

*Malpractice concerns that occur within EPA are passed on to our Provider Assurance team who will investigate the concern and act upon them. NCFE EPA will support with the investigation but are not responsible for any outcomes or actions that a malpractice investigation might raise. Therefore, any appeals against a NCFE EPA malpractice decision should be raised with the NCFE Provider Assurance team through the NCFE Appeals page.

Your request should include a clear rationale as to why you believe that an incorrect assessment decision/procedure was made or why you believe that that we did not properly or fairly apply our relevant processes, procedures or policies and must include supporting evidence. You should also state what outcome you would like from this request, should there be any.

Evidence of learner authorisation must be retained and kept for at least six months following the outcome of an appeal and in compliance with relevant legislation.

If your application does not include sufficient information or evidence, we will inform you in writing, and include a final deadline for the submission of any further information and evidence to support your appeal application.

Please complete the form below.