Paul So long as you are competent and indeed sufficiently confident to deliver "in house" I can find no legal, moral or other reason to engage an external training provider. My experience of CHAS assessor's is that they do not insist on external providers' training although you may be asked to provide a snap shot of your training materials. You do not have to use the services of a UKATA or other "approved" AA training outfit. Hope this helps. Jon

May be useful completing an adult training course. I do totally agree with your analysis. You are either good at training or not. My first day as a 'elf n safety' Advisor (or rather a trainee) I was asked to complete some tasks. All of them were quite nerve racking as I wanted to prove myself and get things right. The only task I was not nervous about was conducting a toolbox talk in front of 50 tradesmen (and women). After some months of conducting these and gently falling into formal training I asked to be placed on a course for adult training as I really enjoyed the training element of my job. I was really surprised what I got out of it! The main things I found useful were lesson plans, being critical with teaching techniques and time management. Even to the point of ensuring seating is placed in a certain way to encourage lesson participation. With regards directly to your question. Although CHAS Assessors are supposed to follow the same guidelines, it really does depended on the assessor you get. Similar to auditors, it will depend on the assessors knowledge base and whether they feel comfortable with the information you provide. Specifically, you may be required to provide PowerPoint (or similar) of what your course content is, test papers, course feedback, lesson plans, historic course sign off forms (if you have been completing these for some time) and procedures for training. Hope that helps!

Hope this doesn't sound as stupid as I think it does! What does CHAS stand for? Always happy to learn!

Thanks dude. :-)