Service Provision Policy

Preamble

Much of the MDT’s policies have over the years been through general consensus and unwritten law. With the many changes happening in the MDT as well as training in South Africa it is important that formal policy is available for all aspects of the MDT so that confusion and misrepresentation cannot occur.

Service Provision Policy

Award holders below ‘Instructor’ may not instruct formal MDT courses, but may assist on a course with a person as listed below being in charge of and present at the course.

This is consistent with the revised UIAA definitions:

A Leader (award holder below ‘Instructor’) is a person who can take responsibility for other people and lead or supervise an activity.

An Instructor is a person who can teach people including beginners so they are competent to take part in an activity.

Candidates contract a Service Provider of the MDT to undertake training and/ or assessment and are contracted to that Service Provider directly. They are in no way contracted to the MDT itself. The MDT only has financial and contractual dealings with Service Providers & not Candidates. The MDT is only an administrative, quality setting, monitoring and assurance body. The fees paid for registration and assessment are paid to Service Providers themselves, who use this to pay a licence fee to the MDT.

Training Courses

To offer MDT Recognised Training Courses, interested persons must:

· Be an accredited and current MDT Instructors Award holder.

· Be a candidate Instructor (have undergone the Instructors award training) and be under the direct supervision of an accredited MDT Instructors Award holder who is listed as the Course Service Provider and who takes full responsibility for the training.

and

· Be a registered MDT Service Provider in good standing, or in the case of candidate instructors, be under the direct supervision of a registered MDT Service Provider in good standing.

All course documentation is to be signed by the registered MDT Service Provider.

Assessment Courses

To offer MDT Recognised Assessment Courses, interested persons must:

· Be an accredited and current MDT Instructors Award holder.

and

· Be a registered MDT Service Provider in good standing.

1 January 2006

Italics have been inserted by the Administrator

Service Provision Policy

Preamble