Learners have been waiting from last year to sit end point assessment exams and are also waiting this year. Schools and colleges have had exams cancelled. We are calling for EPA to also be cancelled due to the circumstances we are in. Learners can not progress onto further education of a higher qualification and it is hindering and delaying them to further develop. It is going to result in learners having to leave the salon as not qualified and learners stressing and leaving as no option but to leave as they can not move on,  this in turn is affecting their mental health. Learners have ample evidence with logbooks, exams, photographs and witness testimonies to pass the course they have done. This would only be done like previous years of the old standards procedures.