PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
This course highlights employer’s challenges, responsibilities and obligations to all parties involved with pensions and auto enrolment, to enable compliance. Automatic enrolment and pensions for payroll
Delivering education offerings fit for the modern and future payroll profession
Professor Helen Higson OBE DL ACIPP, non-executive director at the CIPP , reviews the current vocational education environment and its implications for the Institute’s education offerings
T he CIPP provides a variety of participants and their managers indicate these offerings are high quality and bring much added value both to businesses and to the careers of payroll professionals. We’ve recently undertaken a review of our current education offerings, to ensure they’re appropriate for the future of the profession. In doing this, we explored the current vocational education environment, which we thought members would be interested in reading about. successful educational qualifications and training. Feedback from The government’s skills agenda The current skills agenda from the government has a list of drivers, which provide a useful lens for assessing the needs of payroll professionals and companies. In particular, the government is keen to: ● close the UK productivity gap ● increase the pace of company growth ● improve the performance of small and medium-sized enterprises ● pursue a ‘levelling up’ agenda ● widen social mobility and diversity ● develop more green jobs to assist the net zero agenda ● ensure a high-quality public service sector ● maximise the implications of artificial intelligence and the jobs of tomorrow ● facilitate post-pandemic recovery ● address how we deliver learning in the ‘new normal’. The government is keen to move towards financing further education (FE), rather than higher education (HE) provision. For many years, there was a growth policy for HE. This has now ended, with the number of places at university being capped, as the more cost-effective (to the government) local provision provided by FE colleges is being encouraged. Apprenticeships are
supported by all parties (government, employers and education providers), from levels 2 to 7 for all ages and levels of educational background. This is because it’s been proven that this kind of learning while you’re earning brings great value to employers. It also allows students to finish their qualifications debt-free and costs the government less. Additionally, the government is developing a higher technical levels (HTLs) quality kite mark for levels 4 and 5, delivered in both FE and HE. This quality kite mark clearly links to key national occupational standards (NOS). You may have recently seen discussion of T-levels in the press. These are level 3 qualifications, primarily for 11–18-year- olds, but the intention is to include adults later. These are considered by the government as the technical options to sit alongside A-levels (the more academic option). Eventually, they may replace the BTECs we all know and love, but BTECs have gained a bit of a reprieve. The future of learning This will leave learners with three routes: ● apprenticeships (learn while you earn) ● the academic route (A-levels to degree) ● and the technical route (T-levels, HTLs). Another important development is the government’s skills proposals in relation to funding. The suggestion is for the current student loan system to be changed, to allow learners to draw it down throughout their professional lives, as opposed to just at the beginning. All this is aimed to support the government’s levelling-up agenda. Watch this space to see the CIPP’s additional qualifications to address this vocational educational environment. If you’re a learner or an employer looking to upskill in the pensions or payroll arena, there will be something for you. n
Types of pension schemes Automatic enrolment
The automatic enrolment processes Contributing to the pension scheme The implications on tax Implications to payroll Automatic enrolment and TUPE Communicating pensions Auto enrolment compliance Penalties and reviews of compliance
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| Professional in Payroll, Pensions and Reward |
Issue 80 | May 2020
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