How will it work?
As part of our ongoing commitment to delivering engaging, practical and modern learning experiences, we will be retiring the final classic courses built using our legacy authoring platform:
- Food Safety Level 1 Refresher
- Health and Safety Level 1 Refresher
- Licensing - England & Wales Refresher
- Licensing - Scotland Refresher
- Food Allergens - Localisation Germany
- Food Allergens - Simplified Chinese
- Food Allergens Greek
- Food Safety Level 2 - Polish
- Food Safety Level 2 - Simplified Chinese
- Food Safety Level 2 - Spanish
- Food Safety Level 2 Greek
- Health and Safety Level 1 - Polish
- Health and Safety Level 2 - Simplified Chinese
- Health and Safety Level 2 Greek
These courses will be removed from Flow Learning on 30 October 2026. After this date, these titles will no longer be available to assign out and all current allocations will be removed from learners’ platforms. You can continue to see historic reports on these titles by toggling on ‘Inactive Modules’ in the Learner Progress Report.
While these courses have supported learners for many years, they no longer reflect the standards we expect from our learning content today. They were built before the widespread adoption of mobile learning, modern accessibility standards and the practical, scenario-based learning approaches that are now central to Flow Learning.
Do you have alternatives to these titles?
We’ve developed a suite of relevant titles that are available in multiple languages through our Language Support Tool, this includes all of our compliance titles, such as: Food Safety Level 1 and Level 2, Food Allergens, and Health and Safety Level 1 and 2.
For the Level 1 Refreshers and the Licensing Refresher courses, we do not have direct alternatives, but we have developed our courses to be learner-led, condensed and easy to reference. This means that we would suggest these main courses act as the relevant refreshers.
Do you have something more tailored?
If you need management content specific to your business, Mapal Studio provides the tools to create your own learning experiences using our AI-powered authoring platform. Mapal Studio enables our customers to rapidly create, customise and maintain learning content that reflects their own processes, standards and leadership expectations.
For all other queries, please contact your Customer Service representative for advice on how to create your own resources or our carefully curated recommendations for content providers who have similar titles.
How do I assign the alternatives?
If you wish to use the above listed course alternatives, please use the linked Knowledge Base guides below. These will help you to allocate the new courses to learners; edit your training structures and refresher rules to include the new titles; and create and manage collections. Please ensure you make any course changes as soon as possible.
Assign Learning
Edit Training Structures
Manage Collections
Edit Refresher Rules
Please note: Collections that have already been assigned will not see the new changes.
Previous Classic Course Retirements
List of courses retired September 2025 and September 2026
- Introduction to Management > Management short courses
- Leadership > Management short courses
- Effective Teams > Management short courses
- Guest Service > Alternative resource: Creating Great Guest Experiences
- Wellbeing > Alternative resource: Mental Wellness
- Wine > Alternative resource: Which Wine?
- Café Culture Food Allergens > Alternative resource: Food Allergens for QSR
- Café Culture Food Safety Lv2 > Alternative resource: Food Safety Level 2 for QSR
- Café Culture Health and Safety Lv1 > Alternative resource: Health and Safety Level 2 for QSR
- Food Allergens Best Practice > Alternative resource: Food Allergens Refresher
- Food Safety Best Practice > Alternative resource: Food Safety Refresher
- Health and Safety Best Practice > Alternative resource: Health and Safety Refresher
- Working in a Kitchen > Alternative resource: Broken down into 2 course titles: Essential Cooking Skills & Essential Prepping Skills
- Acrylamide > Alternative resource: Included in Food Safety Level 2
- Legionnaire’s Disease > Alternative resource: Included in Health and Safety Level 2
- Cellar Management
- Cask Ale
- Coffee
- Creating Cocktails
- Bar Stock Control
- Cellar Management for Managers
- Employment Law (UK, ROI)
- Recruit the Right Person
- Pre-Entry Training for Publicans
- Food Fest
- Craft Beer
- Food Safety for Managers (UK, ROI)
- Coronavirus : Cleaning and Hygiene (UK, FR, ES)
- Coronavirus : Looking after your customer (UK, FR, ES)
- Coronavirus : Personal Protection (UK, FR, ES)
- Coronavirus : Preparing to reopen (UK, FR, ES)
- Coronavirus : Service after lockdown (UK, FR, ES)
- Coronavirus : Staying safe (UK, FR, ES)
- Coronavirus : Takeaways and deliveries (UK, FR, ES)
- Coronavirus : Your wellbeing (UK, FR, ES)
- Introduction to PLH England & Wales
- Introduction to PLH Scotland
- Cafe Culture: Counter Service
- Cafe Culture: Coffee
- Service that Sells (German, Portuguese and Arabic)
- The Bartender (German, Portuguese and Arabic)
- The Waiter (German, Portuguese and Arabic)
- The Housekeeper (German, Portuguese and Arabic)
- The Receptionist (German, Portuguese and Arabic)
