Avon Scouts Adult Training

Training for adults in Scouting changes for 2004 to the new national scheme.

The new scheme is modular and flexible, concentrating on learning rather than just attending courses. Training can be carried out using a range of methods: one to one, courses, videos, workbooks and e-learning. There are a total of 36 modules covering the skills required for all roles in Scouting.

On taking up your role, you will be allocated a Training Adviser. With them, you decide which modules are appropriate to your role in Scouting. You then agree which of these, you can demonstrate an existing ability in, and how you are going to learn the others. This forms your Personal Learning Plan. When you have completed training on one of your required modules, you simply demonstrate that you are using the skills to allow your Training Adviser to sign it off. On completion of all your modules, you will be awarded your Wood Badge. From that point, you have to complete 5 hours ongoing training each year in topics useful to your Scouting.

New Adult Training support roles

The role of the ACC(AT) and that of the ADC(AT) will disappear. There will be five new positions

County Training Manager
County Training Administrator
Local Training Manager
Local Training Administrator
Training Adviser

The role of Trainer remains essentially the same.

The County Training Manager (CTM) replaces the role of the ACC(AT), and the Local Training Managers (LTM) replaces the role of the ADC(AT), and both these new positions are County appointments. Administrators (both to the County Training Manager and to the Local Training Managers) and Training Advisers will also be managed through the County.

The LTMs would be responsible to the County Training Manager for the management of training support for all the leaders in their locality. To assist them in this task each LTM will have a team of Training Advisers who would each support a series of leaders from their start in Scouting through to achieving their Wood Badge. Each of these people would have to gain their assessing learning competence, as would all other line managers in Scouting.

It should be possible for LTMs and Training Advisers to be able to continue in their current Scouting role alongside their training support role. These are warranted appointments, managed by County. The County and Local Training Administrator positions are non-warranted.

Young Leaders

Young Leaders are Explorer Scouts (aged 14-18) who help out with either the Beavers, Cubs or Scouts Section as part of their Explorer Scouting. They are members of the District Young Leaders' Unit and may also be members of other Explorer Scout Units. Whilst they are there to help run the Section, they are also concerned with their own development and may choose to work towards one of the Chief Scout's Awards, The Queen's Scout Award or the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme.

There is a Young Leader's Scheme which will be run by the Young Leader's Unit. It is an ongoing programme of training, designed to enable Young Leaders to work effectively in the Section that they choose.

The Young Leader's Scheme is not part of Adult Training and is run by the Explorer Scout Section.