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- What is the minimum age for learners doing Functional Skills qualifications?
- An assessment didn't go ahead as planned, how quickly can we reschedule?
- You only have the one learner, completing SLC can the still go ahead? Can they have other people to make up the numbers or does it have to be other Learners?
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- Trailblazers (TBs) are not communicating with EPAOs when changes are made to APs. This gives a significant commercial advantage to those EPAOs on the TB group and leaves very little time for others to update materials.
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