Community Development City & Guilds Level 2 qualification

Candidates must be either working or volunteering in a community role, complete five mandatory units and one optional unit.

The award can generally be completed in 6-9 months depending on the candidate. Candidates will be allocated an assessor, receive twenty guided learning hours plus attend assessment meetings.

Unit A1 Make relationships within communities
A1.1 Make contacts within communities
A1.2 Help develop Working relationships
Unit B1 Contribute to the development of community Groups/networks
B1.1 Help community groups/networks to identify strengths and weaknesses
B1.2 Help community groups/networks to develop their own practice
B1.3 Encourage community groups to work in ways that are inclusive and empowering
Unit C1 Work within communities to select options and make plans for collective action
C1.1 Contribute to gathering information to aid decision making
C1.2 Contribute to evaluating and selecting options for collective action
C1.3 Contribute to developing a plan of collective action
Unit C2 Contribute to collective action within a community
C2.1 Encourage peoples participation in collective action
C2.2 Help community groups put an agreed plan into action
Unit F1 Identify and reflect on own practice, knowledge and principles
F1.1 Identify and reflect on own role within communities
F1.2 Identify strengths and areas for development
Optional Units
Unit C5 Contribute to the review needs, opportunities, rights and responsibilities with a company
C5.1 Contribute to identifying and prioritising a group’s needs and opportunities
C5.2 Contribute to identifying and prioritising s group’s rights and responsibilities
Unit E1 Encourage the best use of resources
E1.1 Contribute to the planning and use of resources
E1.3 Contribute to the monitoring of use of resources
Unit F4 Identify and take action to meet own learning and development needs
F4.1 Identify and take action to meet own learning needs
F4.2 Identify and take action to meet own support needs