SCQF Partnership Credit rating and levelling project UK Disability Inclusion Training Course

1. SCQF Partnership Credit rating and levelling projectUK Disability Inclusion Training Course

2. The Sector Skills Council • Sport and recreation • Health and fitness • Outdoors • Caravan industry • Playwork • 60,000 employees in Scotland across the sector • 150,000 volunteers without whom we couldn’t function

3. SCQFP and Alliance • Funding made available from SCQFP and Alliance • SkillsActive made a successful application • Scottish Disability Sport (SDS) UK Disability Inclusion Training Course • Our 2nd credit rating and levelling project ( Mountain Leader Training Scotland Winter Award Level 9 and 31 credit points)

4. SkillsActive’s choice of this course • Met the 4 basic criteria for credit rating and levelling • Will have an impact across each individual sport and physical education • Will raise awareness of the SCQF across the sports organisations, Scottish Governing Bodies and local authorities (professionals and volunteers) • Widest reach of all the courses that we know of • The Equality Act 1st October 2010

5. UK Disability Inclusion Training • Delivered to • Volunteers and coaches • Teachers and learning support staff • Leisure Service providers • National bodies • Currently a stand-alone course but many organisations making it essential CPD

6. Process • Scottish Disability Sport (SDS) staff and consultant attended an induction • Consultant employed as SDS is a voluntary organisation and had no capacity at SDS expense • Agreed a timeline and kept to it - SDS felt supported • Completed the relevant forms and mapped learning outcomes to the level descriptors and received feedback • Submitted to SQA • Result due February 2011

7. Benefits • Credibility – particularly talking to Scottish Governing Bodies of Sport and Education and training partners • Allowed SDS to improve its course through tightening up processes • A better understanding and comparison of where the course “fits” with other courses and clarifies level of difficulty • Volunteers feel more recognised and valued doing a course that is better acknowledged • Helps towards progression in other training

8. Challenges • Cost – “if it hadn’t been paid for it wouldn’t have happened” • Passing on an increased cost to the individual candidates because some procedures had to be adjusted • Lack of awareness – not all see the benefit • Complexity/confusion of the quality assurance/ accreditation landscape – what to do to get your course “acknowledged” • SCQF credit rating and levelling of all courses • Mapping to NOS demonstrates competence for employability • SQA Awarding Body Centre • SQA Accreditation Approved Awarding Body and Accredited Qualification • Pay SQA for it to become a Professional Development Award • Not very accessible for the Voluntary Sector.

9. Potential within our sector • Potential for many more courses from our sector • Our sector has a plethora of non-approved courses • Already had discussions about: • Scottish Yoga Leadership Courses • Paths for All Walk Leaders Courses • Sports Leaders UK Awards • NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Physical Activity Promotion Courses • Cycling Scotland proficiency, leadership and other courses • Mountain Bike Leaders Award

10. Conclusion • Been very worthwhile but still to see real benefits for this course although we are aware of benefits of the MLTS course • Difficult for voluntary organisation to include this in its plans because of cost and capacity issues • Hopefully continue to raise awareness within our sector • Thank you to Alliance and SCQFP for allowing this to happen