The focus of this review is to quality assure a centre’s management systems and administration to ensure they remain compliant with our approval criteria. No learners will be sampled as part of this review, as this will be covered during our external quality assurance or moderation reviews.
Centres will be allocated a Quality Reviewer (QR), who will conduct the AMR across all internally assessed qualifications. This means centres only need to submit generic information about management systems and administration once a year.
Following the AMR, centres will receive a report from their QR and will be given an overall risk rating of low, medium or high based on the evidence that was made available. Any actions with a low or medium risk rating will be checked at the centres next review the following session. Actions with a high-risk rating will be reviewed during an interim review before the end of the session.
The criteria used to determine this status is outlined in our User Guide to the Annual Monitoring Review. The guide also supports centres when planning for an AMR as it outlines the criteria QRs will check as part of the AMR process, the types of evidence centres can make available and how the centre risk rating is calculated.