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generally a sector skills council, an industrial partnership or a body such as the Construction Industry Training Board. Sector skills bodies have played an important role in providing employer input and have played a standard-setting role in conjunction with IfATE, so employers would be seriously concerned if these links were severed. These two amendments would explicitly ensure that the Bill recognises that occupational standards, apprenticeship standards and apprenticeship assessment arrangements are informed by industry skills and standard-setting bodies in the absence of IfATE.