Tripartite Meetings

Tripartite meetings (sometimes referred to as Academic and practice review meetings) have three primary objectives:

• Ensuring that the Apprentices is progressing against the Apprenticeship Standards.

• To provide feedback into the development of the e-portfolio.

• To ensure regulatory compliance against Apprenticeship and Apprenticeship funding rules.

These meetings are held between the Apprentice, WPM and APM. Six tripartite meetings must take place during the taught element of the apprenticeship and are held approximately every 4-months. Meetings take place online at a mutually agreed time and will not normally last longer than an hour. Items discussed and any resulting actions will be stored in the learner file in PebblePad which can be accessed at any time by the Apprentice, WPM and APM.

The style/tone of tripartite meetings is one of mentoring.

The Apprentice owns these meetings; this is their opportunity to demonstrate how they are transferring their new knowledge, skills, and behaviours within the workplace and how they are evidencing that they have met the KSBs. It is also their opportunity to request assistance in additional learning activities where they are not able to utilise their new knowledge, skills, and behaviour within their primary role.

The APM’s role is to provide support to the Apprentice and WPM in identifying additional learning activities to help fill any gaps. APM’s also monitor compliance against Apprenticeship funding rules namely, that:

• Tripartite meetings are taking place regularly,

• Off-the-job-training hours are being given and activity recorded,

• The Apprentice has the required English and math functional skills

• The Apprentice is continuing to develop their portfolio of evidence throughout the duration of the programme and as such is evidencing how they are transferring their new knowledge and skills and behaviours to good effect in the workplace.

The role of the WPM is to ensure that the Apprentice is given sufficient time and access to additional learning activities to complete their apprenticeship. They also have the responsibility of ensuring that:

• The Apprentice is transferring their learning back to the workplace

• Signing off each piece of evidence as they are completed and

• Ensuring that the organisation is meeting their employment commitments as agreed in the commitment statement

These are standard agenda items that should be covered at each meeting