Skills First Audit and Assurance Services

⁠⁠⁠The Department of Education and Training (the Department) provides education and development services to children, young people and adults both directly through government schools and indirectly through the regulation and funding of early childhood services, non-government schools and training programs.

The Department has five main responsibilities:
* Provide policy advice to its Ministers about education, early childhood development, children's services, higher education and training in general;
* Implement Victorian Government policy on early childhood services;
* Implement Victorian Government policy on school education for all school age students;
* Implement Victorian Government policy on training and higher education services; and
* Manage and drive continuous improvement in the delivery of primary and secondary education in Victorian government schools.

The Department enters into funding contracts with a network of Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) to deliver vocational education and training (VET) under the Skills First training system. The Department engages audit service providers to undertake a range of compliance assurance activities of RTOs to ensure there is compliance with the relevant VET Funding Contracts.

The Department seeks to appoint two or more experienced and qualified audit service providers to undertake funding and quality audit and assurance services across a range of Victorian registered training organisations (RTOs).