Creative & Cultural Skills has a remit to ensure that all vocational qualifications, national occupational standards and apprenticeships on offer across the UK are:

• informed by current and future skills needs
• based on current working practice
• based on labour market intelligence
• informed by relevant UK public policy.

We play an important role in the development of a broad range of vocational qualifications for adults, and also more general qualifications for 14-19 year olds.

We work with a number of partners to ensure that qualifications meet our employers’ needs. These partners include:

• Awarding organizations (including AQA, City & Guilds, Edexcel, OCR, Plasa Awards and others)
• QCA (Qualifications & Curriculum Authority)
• Ofqual (Office of the Qualifications and Examinations Regulator
• SQA (Scottish Qualifications Authority)
• DCELLS (Department for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills)
• CCEA (Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment).