Dear

We are writing to seek your involvement  in the review of the Certificate IV in Celebrancy.

As you may be aware, the Community Services & Health Industry Skills Council (CS&HISC)  is currently reviewing and streamlining its Community Services and Health Training Packages. The celebrancy qualification comes under its Client Services section. The Coalition of Celebrant Associations, as the peak body recognised by the Attorney General’s Department, was invited to send a representative to the Industry Reference Group (IRG) that is involved in reviewing the Client Services courses. Rona Goold was nominated as the CoCA representative.

Robyn McEwan, Training Packages Process Improvement Specialist, is the CS&HISC specialist who is coordinating the review of this Client Services qualifcations. The IRG held its first meeting on 10 May 2012 and since then a process has been established for our industry to been consulted on the training of celebrants.

Basically as the Certificate IV in Celebrancy reflects the job role of celebrants who do not have employers, it is proposed to:

1. Consult widely with celebrants via the CS&HISC and CoCA websites on the adequacy of the current qualification for celebrants
2. Review the qualification via forums on the CoCA website with celebrants who have some education/ training expertise and/or are members of celebrant associations
3. Establish  a Subject Matter Expert Group (SMEG) to coordinate the review of specific units of competency or groups of units with the view to streamline and improve the quality of the assessment guidelines for each unit. This is to be done via
   3a Face to face meetings
   3b. Skype meetings
   3c. Online Forums.
4. Establish working groups as well as opportunities for comments and feedback via forums on the CoCA website.

Note: The objective of the SMEG is to gain a picture of the current job role of a celebrant and ensure that the qualification reflects this role.

This will involve

• Reviewing the 5  core units of the qualification and ensuring that these reflect the current core functions of a celebrant that apply nationally.
• Streamlining the 2 celebrant specific core units including:
  CHCEL401C work effectively in a celebrancy role;
  and CHCEL406A Identify and address client needs in a celebrancy role.
  (Note: The other core units will be streamlined by another IRG which are looking at common units across the training package).
• Reviewing the 4 marriage elective units for relevance to the job role and streamlining all of these.
• Reviewing the other elective units including the funeral elective grouping for relevance to the job role. These units articulate the possible differences in job roles across the nation and different work contexts.

To assist the planning of this process, as soon as possible could you let us know please:

1. if you are willing to be involved
   2. if so, your best email contact.

Kind regards

Rona

Rona Goold

Secretary CoCA  Coalition of Celebrants Association (CoCA) Inc

AND

Training Packages Process Improvement Specialist

Community Services & Health Industry Skills Council

Level 9, 46 – 56 Kippax St  | Surry Hills NSW 2010  | www.cshisc.com.a