Time to Get Qualified
From January 2012 WCVYS plans to be offering a Level 2 Certificate in Youth Work Practice. The qualification is part taught, but mainly work based. WCVYS seeks to recruit 24 participants who will have to produce a portfolio of evidence of their work in their clubs and organisations. The qualification is aimed at volunteers and paid staff working in the voluntary youth sector in Worcestershire.
Full details will appear in mid November, but the qualification will cost £100 to anyone from a WCVYS member organisations. It will result in a Level 2 ABC Awarding Body qualification and the taught elements will be delivered in Droiwich. The qualification is planned to include six units:
• Understanding Youth Work
• Safeguarding
• Health and Safety
• Provision of Information
• Youth Work Principles and Knowledge
• Designing and delivering peer education.
Anyone that wishes to registering an interest in pursuing the qualification or would like further information as it becomes available should e-mail Phil Street at phil@wcvys.co.uk