What are the new Apprenticeship Assessment Principles?

As part of its apprenticeship reform announcements in February 2025, the government introduced a set of assessment principles. These principles aim to streamline the assessment process by enabling more flexibility in design and delivery. The principles are:

Introduce shorter, high-level, less prescriptive assessment plans.
Assessment is more proportionate to the competency being tested.
Include the minimum number of assessments required to confirm occupational competency.
Remove duplication, including crossover of any criteria covered by included qualifications.
Where appropriate, assessments can be designed to take place on-programme.
Where appropriate, training providers will be able to deliver elements of the assessment, which will be quality assured by assessment organisations.
Make the best use of technology.
Enable employers to verify Behaviours.