Managing and Delivering Learning

Volunteer’s manage and track their learning through My Learning. They can also access the elearning through My Learning. For any learning that's delivered locally, they'll need to contact their Volunteering Development Team to find out how to register. 

Lead Volunteers, Team Leaders, Volunteering Development Teams including volunteers with Trainer and Learning Assessor accreditations,  support volunteers to complete their learning and provide opportunities to develop skills, experience and knowledge. 

You’ll support volunteers to complete their learning. If you lead a team, you’ll see your teams’ learning records and create learning reports to check how your team is getting on.  

If volunteers are struggling to find the time to complete their learning, they could use existing time in the diary to prioritise getting the learning completed. This could be during a leader meeting, a Trustee Board meeting or by taking a break from section meetings.  

Each District and County/Area/Region(Scotland) has a Volunteering Development Team. Volunteers with Trainer and Learning Assessor accreditations are part of this team and together they: 

• organise and deliver learning locally,
• help volunteers find and take part in opportunities for learning,
• connect volunteers to learn and share best practice or challenges
• credit learning for volunteers in My Learning
• support volunteers to access their digital learning and help find alternatives for those volunteers that don’t have access to the internet.

As a volunteer with a Trainer accreditation, you’ll deliver and facilitate Scouts learning. 

The Volunteering Development Team will co-ordinate and organise Trainers to deliver learning opportunities.

Local learning opportunities are flexible, so that volunteers can access learning when they need it and as local as possible. This means Learning might be delivered for one or more Districts or for a County / Area / Region (Scotland) when required.  

Volunteer's with the Learning Assessor accreditation, support and assess volunteers as they learn and credit learning for volunteers in My Learning. 

Growing Roots learning is automatically assigned to volunteers in My Learning and is shown on their profile in My Membership. Progress is tracked and recorded in My Learning. This means that Learning Assessors don’t need to assign or credit skills for this learning on a volunteer's profile.  

First Response is automatically assigned to volunteers who are required to complete it. Learning Assessors will need to credit this skill once completed. 

For Branching Out learning, volunteers need to assign the skills to their profile in My Learning. Learning Assessors can also assign skills to volunteer’s profiles.  

Depending on the requirements for each skill, volunteers might need to: 

Volunteers will need to request a skill assessment, through My Learning. Learning Assessors will find assessment requests in the ‘assess’ section of My Learning.