Personal Progress qualifications and training courses

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2023

Become more independent and effective in life, learning and work with the Personal Progress qualifications. These flexible qualifications are designed to help you build your skills and knowledge in a wide range of areas, such as communication, reading and writing, mathematics, independent living, workplace skills or engaging with the world around you. You can choose units that suit you, whatever your interests.

The Personal Progress qualifications are for young people or adults with learning difficulties. There are no entry requirements.

Available to deliver in the following:

England
Wales – please check QiW website for available funding
Scotland
Northern Ireland

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General Information

What Is Involved In Studying This Course?

For these qualifications, you'll learn in a group setting with your training provider. You'll demonstrate your new skills and knowledge mainly through practical activities.

Is this level right for me?

Entry Level 1
You're a young person or adult with learning difficulties. You want to build your knowledge and skills so you can participate more fully in the community.

What Careers Can This Lead To?

This qualification can help you be more independent and effective in any type of job.

After completing the award you can move on to the certificate or diploma. You can use some of the units you've already completed during the Award to give you a headstart on your Certificate or Diploma.

If you want to gain more qualifications, you could move on to:

Entry Level 2 Certificate in Employability Skills

What Is Involved With Delivering This Course?

To deliver these qualifications you'll need to provide your learners with a suitable learning environment. This includes providing access to real and relevant settings whenever possible since the focus is on 'learning by doing'.

You will need qualified assessors who have expertise in working with people with learning difficulties. You'll assess learners mainly through observation of practical activities.

As many of the learners may have limited literacy and numeracy skills, you need to provide resources to enable learners to demonstrate their ability through carrying out practical tasks rather than writing about them. For example, learners who have difficulty with reading and writing should not be asked to complete worksheets as evidence for their Personal Progress portfolios.

Anyone can take this qualification, but you must make sure all your learners can access the resources they need to complete it.

To find all the resource requirements for assessment and delivery, download the qualification handbook from the centre documents section.

Entry 1

Entry Level 1 will suit you if you're a young person or adult with learning difficulties. You want to build your knowledge and skills so that you can participate more fully in the community.

There are three qualifications to choose from, depending on how many credits you complete:

Award: 8-13 credits
Certificate: 14-36 credits
Diploma: 37 or more credits.

To gain each qualification, you choose enough units to give you the credits you need. Units are worth between two and five credits each.

The units you can choose from cover a wide range, and include:

Developing skills for the workplace: following instructions
Engaging with the world around you: events
Rights and responsibilities: everybody matters
Developing community participation skills: personal enrichment
Developing independent living skills: keeping safe
Using local health services
Developing learning skills: learning to learn
Dealing with problems
Encountering experiences: being a part of things
Developing ICT skills
Early mathematics: sequencing and sorting
Understanding what money is used for.

To see a full list of units and the credit values of each, download the qualification handbook from the centre documents section.

What Careers Can This Lead To?

This qualification can help you be more independent and effective in any type of job.

After completing the award you can move on to the certificate or diploma. You can use some of the units you've already completed during the Award to give you a headstart on your Certificate or Diploma.

If you want to gain more qualifications, you could move on to:

Entry Level 2 Certificate in Employability Skills

Entry Level 1 Qualifications in Personal Progress (3803-01)

Last Registration Date: 31 Aug 2027

Entry level 1 Certificate in Personal Progress

Accreditation No: 500/6769/2 This is a reference number related to UK accreditation framework
Type: Credit based qualification This is categorisation to help define qualification attributes e.g. type of assessment
Credits: 14 Credits are a measure of the size of the qualification
Guided Learning Hours: 140 - 140 This is the average contact time a centre would typically commit
Total Qualification Time: 140 The total time for the qualification
Key Stage: Data unavailable This shows the equivalent Key Stage level.
Last Certification: 31/08/2028 This is the last date that a certificate can be issued
Qualification fees in the UK: £93.90 Our typical price is the one that is most often paid by a centre for a completed learner. Some prices are made up of multiple charging points so action like taking difference units or specialisms to complete and resitting assessments may mean the cost for some learners differs.

Entry level 1 Diploma in Personal Progress

Accreditation No: 500/6792/8 This is a reference number related to UK accreditation framework
Type: Credit based qualification This is categorisation to help define qualification attributes e.g. type of assessment
Credits: 37 Credits are a measure of the size of the qualification
Guided Learning Hours: 370 - 370 This is the average contact time a centre would typically commit
Total Qualification Time: 370 The total time for the qualification
Key Stage: Data unavailable This shows the equivalent Key Stage level.
Last Certification: 31/08/2028 This is the last date that a certificate can be issued
Qualification fees in the UK: £93.90 Our typical price is the one that is most often paid by a centre for a completed learner. Some prices are made up of multiple charging points so action like taking difference units or specialisms to complete and resitting assessments may mean the cost for some learners differs.

Entry level 1 Award in Personal Progress

Accreditation No: 500/6824/6 This is a reference number related to UK accreditation framework
Type: Credit based qualification This is categorisation to help define qualification attributes e.g. type of assessment
Credits: 8 Credits are a measure of the size of the qualification
Guided Learning Hours: 80 - 80 This is the average contact time a centre would typically commit
Total Qualification Time: 80 The total time for the qualification
Key Stage: Data unavailable This shows the equivalent Key Stage level.
Last Certification: 31/08/2028 This is the last date that a certificate can be issued
Qualification fees in the UK: £93.90 Our typical price is the one that is most often paid by a centre for a completed learner. Some prices are made up of multiple charging points so action like taking difference units or specialisms to complete and resitting assessments may mean the cost for some learners differs.

Here you can find all documents related to this suite of qualifications.

By clicking on the section headings below, you can access a variety of documents such as the qualification handbooks and assessment materials, Statements of Purpose, and recognition letters from industry and employers.

Some documents may be password protected. Passwords can be retrieved by logging in to Walled Garden and visiting the Administration section of the relevant qualification catalogue page.

Interested in delivering this qualification?

Find out more about how to become an approved City & Guilds centre or fill out our online customer application form.

Personal Progress (3803)