Awards Network for Parents and Carers
Parents and carers are at the centre of learning for young people. Youth awards can make a positive difference to your family:
The Curriculum for Excellence requires schools to recognise the breadth of young people’s achievement, to include achievements gained outside of school through e.g. youth work, volunteering and hobbies, and not simply their ability to pass exams. This means that there is a growing role for community activities to support and complement school based learning.
Employers say:
Business is clear – we need an education system which develops rigorous, rounded and grounded young people. This means a system which focuses as much on the development of key attitudes and attributes – such as confidence, resilience, enterprise, ambition – as on academic progression and attainment.
– Delivering Excellence – an approach for schools in Scotland, CBI, 3/2015
Any job requires a set of technical skills, but employees also need a range of ‘soft skills’. Employers increasingly recognise how youth work awards help young people develop these ‘soft skills’, and consequently make them more valuable as employees in the workplace.
Provider: Young Scot
The DigiKnow? Champions Award supports young people to become more cyber resilient and learn how to protect themselves and their devices. They'll also learn to… more
Provider: Girls’ Brigade in Scotland
The Brigader Brooch is the second highest award available to young women in the Girls' Brigade. It requires achievement of each of the four Brigader Triangles,… more
Provider: Scouts Scotland
The Chief Scout's Diamond Award is available for Explorer Scouts and Scout Network aged between 15 and 24. It follows after the Chief Scout's Platinum Award… more
Understanding the SCQF can help you support your child's learning journey
Understand qualification levels, where awards and qualifications sit and how they equate
A tool to help young people to identify and articulate the skills they develop and apply through youth work and related non-formal learning activity
A simple explanation of Wider Achievement from The National Parents Forum of Scotland with examples of opportunities and related awards and qualifications
The importance of achievement, outlined in Educations Scotland’s Parentzone