UK Youth is committed to making the BTEC programmes accessible to both large and small organisations but need to balance the income generated with the costs incurred by national development of the programme. In order to be able to use the programmes with your young people you will need to ensure that you are registered.
In order to run the programmes, your organisation will need to demonstrate that you have:
- Safe and user-friendly facilities to run a learning programme for young people.
- Appropriate organisational policies and procedures in place e.g. a health and safety policy, equal opportunities, child protection, a mission statement and a staff training and development policy
- The financial and personnel resources to teach, support, and assess the young people to the programme standards.
There are three types of registration to run the Peer Qualifications programme:
- BTEC Intermediate Peer Education Award- appropriate for organisations that wish to deliver the BTEC Intermediate Peer Education Award with their young people.
- BTEC Intermediate Certificate in Peer Mentoring - appropriate for organisations that wish to deliver the BTEC Intermediate Certificate in Peer Mentoringwith their young people.
- Combination of both Awards- appropriate for organisations that wish to deliver both programmes with their young people.
Centre Registration Fees
To register for any of the Peer Qualifications Programmes, there is an annual registration fee of £540 + VAT (£634.50). Registration fees are charged on an annual basis.
When you register to run either of the Peer Qualification programmes, you will receive:
- Guidance materials on setting up a BTEC Intermediate Certificate in Peer Mentoring or BTEC Intermediate Award in Peer Education.
- The Programme Guidelines
- Materials to train the Peer Educators or Mentors
- Testimony statement templates for each unit of learning
- Assessment plan sheets for each unit of learning
- Summary Sheets for each unit of learning
- Appeals procedure
- Chart mapping the learning outcomes of this certificate to the adult core literacy curriculum
- Monthly news Bulletin from UK Youth
UK Youth offer organisations guidance on setting up and using the programme with the young people with whom you work. The Guidance consists of:
- Registration of young persons with Edexcel
- One monitoring visit in the middle of the programme to review the learning programme and portfolio building requirements
- One Verification visit to assess all of the young people’s portfolios and Certification
- Telephone and/or email guidance from the commencement of the Agreement until the Verification is completed.
- Opportunity to attend network meetings with other Award Workers running the Peer Qualification programmes.
Candidate Registration Fees
To register a young person for any of the Peer Qualifications Programmes, there is a candidate fee of £150 per candidate per programme. This covers the registration of the young person with Edexcel/ UK Youth and final certification. The names and dates of birth of the young people to be registered are obtained during the mid-term monitoring visit and an invoice generated.
To register to run the Peer Qualifications Programme, please read through the Programme Delivery Agreement and complete the Registration Form and return to Charmaine Simpson at UK Youth.
Quality Assurance
To make sure that your course is meeting the required standards by BTEC, an Accredited Learning Development Officer will visit you to ensure that the standards are being met and to offer you appropriate support with the project. Key staff involved in the programme will also be expected to attend the meetings to ensure commonality of standards is applied. Our verifier will also want to meet some of the young people involved in the programme when looking at their portfolios.
From time to time an External Verifier from Edexcel may want to visit your project and look at your course programme and some of the young people's evidence.
If you have any queries about centre registration please contact Charmaine Simpson
