Resources

This page is designed to give you some guidance on places you can visit to get more information, as well as provide the more technical background and reports produced throughout our work on the skills agenda. If you can’t find what you are looking for, please don’t hesitate to get in touch and we will endeavour to guide you in the right direction.

Useful Links

• For information about qualifications, and how to find a learning provider to deliver qualifications in your area please visit the awarding organisations websites below:

Asset Skills - www.assetskills.org

City & Guilds – www.cityandguilds.com

Edexcel – www.edexcel.com  

• For potential financial support for your learning: Skills Funding Agency www.skillsfundingagency.bis.gov.uk 
• For information about the Institute of Parking Professionals and Continual Professional Development click here
• For information about Continual Professional Development (CPD) click here
• To join the BPA Learning and Development Network click here
• For information on National Occupational Standards UK Standards Directory – www.ukstandards.org.uk

Careers in Parking

Progression Route for a Career in Parking (pdf)

Career profile of a Civil Enforcement Officer (pdf)

Career profile of a Notice Processor (pdf)

Introduction to a parking career

Employability Checklist for a Parking Control Officer

Routes into Work - an aid for those training or employing an individual for a Parking Control Officer role

Our background and research – reports in detail

Below you will find a selection of reports outlining our work and detailing our progress so far. This is the more technical side of what we do, but if you have a keen interest then you might find it useful to know what is behind our work.

The Background

• Workforce Survey 2011 
• BPA Skills for Success Brochure 2011
• From Activity to Profession The Skills Agenda 2008.pdf
• Gap Analysis of Skills Needs and Current Provision, January 2008
• An Assessment of Current Provision for Skills Needs for the Parking Sector, January 2008
• Skills Needs Assessment for the Parking Sector, January 2008
• UK Parking Sector Skills Strategy 2007 
• UK Parking Workforce Survey, March 2006
• Overview of the Leitch Review of Skills; Prosperity for all in the global economy – world class skills, December 2006
 

Our qualification strategy and action plans

• Parking QUALIFICATIONS STRATEGY
• Parking qualification strategy action plan Part A
• Parking qualification strategy action plan for Scotland
• Parking qualification strategy action plan for Wales
• Parking qualification strategy action plan for England
• Parking qualification strategy action plan for Northern Ireland

Developing the National Occupational Standards

For details on the individual national occupational standards please click here

• Understanding and Using National Occupational Standards, September 2007
• Developing National Occupational Standards for the Parking Sector – Final Report 2010
• Parking Occupational Map (June 2009)
• Parking Functional Map (May 2010)
• BPA NOS Presentation (Nov 2010)

Exploring and Developing Qualifications

• Management and Leadership qualifications for the parking sector – A needs analysis and proposal
• Apprenticeships for the parking sector – a needs analysis and proposal
• Developing the Level 3 Award for Notice Processors - Report Redeveloping the Level 2 NVQ in Controlling Parking Areas – phase 1
• Redeveloping the Level 2 NVQ in Controlling Parking Areas – phase 1