What’s New?
November 09
The revised LDQ website www.ldq.org.uk will be available shortly. This will be the website to access current and up-to-date information about LDQ and Knowledge Sets. This LDAF website will stay as an archive site for those completing their LDAF awards.
Oct 09 - Please see the joint letter from Skills for Care and Valuing Poeple regarding the LDQ Induction Award and Knowledge Sets at the bottom of this page
New Knowledge Sets Consultation
Please see the file at the bottom of this page regarding a consultation regarding new knowledge sets
NEW INDUCTION AWARD
New LDQ (LDAF) Induction Awards
Skills for Care are working with a number of awarding bodies to offer the new Learning Disability Qualification Induction Awards.
UNITS FOR THE NEW INDUCTION AWARDS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ON THIS WEBSITE.
THESE ARE FOR PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY. CENTRES SHOULD CONTACT AWARDING BODIES (see below) TO CHECK ON THE EXACT FORMAT EACH IS USING, AND TO HAVE THEIR LEARNING PROGRAMMES ACCREDITED.
The units cover the Common Induction Standards, in the context of supporting people who have learning disabilities. They replace LDAF Induction and Foundation Units.
The units also cover many knowledge requirements for NVQ core units and 'recurring topics'. A mapping for each unit can be downloaded below.
The new Induction Awards are offered both at level 2 and at level 3. The content is broadly the same at each level but with some adjustment to match different roles and depths of knowledge.
The new Induction Awards are the first part of the proposed suite of “Learning Disability Qualifications” (LDQs). These will take learners through induction then on to NVQ and beyond.
Centres must accredit their learning programmes and assessment systems with an awarding body in order to meet LDAF/LDQ requirements. See below for details of which awarding bodies are offering the Induction Award
These units have a notional learning time of 20 hours per unit. (This is learning time not teaching time, therefore time learning/applying in the workplace will count.)
1 - 2 days teaching per unit is a realistic figure.
Learners registered on existing LDAF awards will have a period of time in which to complete their awards.
The units are available in the files below
AWARDING BODIES FOR THE REVISED LDAF AWARD
Edexcel
Customer service number 0870 2409800
Website www.edexcel.org.uk
Email phil.myers@edexcel.org.uk
Edexcel
One90 High Holborn
London
WC1V 7BH
City and Guilds
Email: ben.towers@cityandguilds.com
- We plan to have the initial awards ready for the Skills for Care national conferences in June 2007
City & Guilds
Customer Relations
1 Giltspur Street
London EC1A 9DD
United Kingdom
Open College Network
Tel: 024 7652 4728
Fax: 024 7652 4680
Email: c.riley@ocnwmr.org.uk
www.ocnwmr.org.uk
Cathy Riley
Curriculum and Qualifications Advisor
OCN West Midlands Region
The Gatehouse
Westwood Campus
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
(Details of the Diploma for Inspectors of Learning Disability Services are now at the bottom of the Level 4 page)
DOWNLOADABLE INFORMATION: UNITS AND MAPPINGS
November 09
The revised LDQ website www.ldq.org.uk will be available shortly. This will be the website to access current and up-to-date information about LDQ and Knowledge Sets. This LDAF website will stay as an archive site for those completing their LDAF awards.
Oct 09 - Please see the joint letter from Skills for Care and Valuing Poeple regarding the LDQ Induction Award and Knowledge Sets at the bottom of this page
New Knowledge Sets Consultation
Please see the file at the bottom of this page regarding a consultation regarding new knowledge sets
NEW INDUCTION AWARD
New LDQ (LDAF) Induction Awards
Skills for Care are working with a number of awarding bodies to offer the new Learning Disability Qualification Induction Awards.
UNITS FOR THE NEW INDUCTION AWARDS ARE NOW AVAILABLE ON THIS WEBSITE.
THESE ARE FOR PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY. CENTRES SHOULD CONTACT AWARDING BODIES (see below) TO CHECK ON THE EXACT FORMAT EACH IS USING, AND TO HAVE THEIR LEARNING PROGRAMMES ACCREDITED.
The units cover the Common Induction Standards, in the context of supporting people who have learning disabilities. They replace LDAF Induction and Foundation Units.
The units also cover many knowledge requirements for NVQ core units and 'recurring topics'. A mapping for each unit can be downloaded below.
The new Induction Awards are offered both at level 2 and at level 3. The content is broadly the same at each level but with some adjustment to match different roles and depths of knowledge.
The new Induction Awards are the first part of the proposed suite of “Learning Disability Qualifications” (LDQs). These will take learners through induction then on to NVQ and beyond.
Centres must accredit their learning programmes and assessment systems with an awarding body in order to meet LDAF/LDQ requirements. See below for details of which awarding bodies are offering the Induction Award
These units have a notional learning time of 20 hours per unit. (This is learning time not teaching time, therefore time learning/applying in the workplace will count.)
1 - 2 days teaching per unit is a realistic figure.
Learners registered on existing LDAF awards will have a period of time in which to complete their awards.
The units are available in the files below
AWARDING BODIES FOR THE REVISED LDAF AWARD
Edexcel
Customer service number 0870 2409800
Website www.edexcel.org.uk
Email phil.myers@edexcel.org.uk
Edexcel
One90 High Holborn
London
WC1V 7BH
City and Guilds
Email: ben.towers@cityandguilds.com
- We plan to have the initial awards ready for the Skills for Care national conferences in June 2007
City & Guilds
Customer Relations
1 Giltspur Street
London EC1A 9DD
United Kingdom
Open College Network
Tel: 024 7652 4728
Fax: 024 7652 4680
Email: c.riley@ocnwmr.org.uk
www.ocnwmr.org.uk
Cathy Riley
Curriculum and Qualifications Advisor
OCN West Midlands Region
The Gatehouse
Westwood Campus
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
(Details of the Diploma for Inspectors of Learning Disability Services are now at the bottom of the Level 4 page)
DOWNLOADABLE INFORMATION: UNITS AND MAPPINGS