The Training Accreditation Council should:

• within 12 months, fully implement its revised approach to regulating RTOs. This should focus on high risk RTOs and ways to increase compliance in the sector
• seek industry input when it plans and conducts its mandatory checks of RTOs. This would better focus checks on industry concerns
• develop clear requirements for when its contract auditors should talk with students to verify the quality of training and assessments
• consider the need for legislative or policy change to allow the Council to check RTO compliance without prior notice. The threat of unannounced checks might help ensure RTOs stay compliant with the standards
• explicitly consider and document the risk to students and industry of training provided by non-compliant RTOs, and any decisions made. In addition, find ways to reduce timeframes before sanctioning an RTO to reduce the risk that students receive inadequate training.