BTEC Intermediate Award for Community Safety Practitioners

Introduction

Practitioners from across the public, private and third sectors all now work in the area of community safety. These multi agency practitioners come from a broad range of backgrounds and organisations.

This growing band of professionals is now formally recognised by a formally accredited UK qualification.

The BTEC Intermediate Award for Community Safety Practitioners addresses the needs for formal training, development with an educational accredited qualification in this wide reaching area of work.

This new and unique BTEC qualification has been developed by the CSP Academy by listening to the individual needs of over 2,500 multi agency practitioners who have engaged with our programme of qualifications and training.

The new qualification fits into the existing programme of qualifications and training we offer, while complimenting our themed academies such as the Community Restorative Justice Academy, The National Stalking Training Academy and The National Neighbourhood Watch Academy.

This qualification has been designed to support and better enable the practical application of:

Overview

This qualification provides an Introduction to community safety approaches and provides an overview to the concepts and philosophy of community safety practice, including practical skills.

It provides an understanding to community safety strategies and systems with an in depth look at the concepts and philosophy of community safety practice.

The qualification also illustrates techniques to implement community safety strategies and systems and provides an in depth look at the skills required to communicate and project manage those approaches.

The course provides practitioner training that equips participants with the skills, knowledge, and the ability to identify and practise appropriate community safety and restorative approaches in a variety of settings.

Qualification Structure

The course consists of 30 hours of guided learning, made up as follows:

- 2 tutorial training days - 14 hours
- Home / Work based assignment - 16 hours

Who should enrol

There are no entry or learning requirements for this qualification.

This qualification is for candidates who either aspire to be, or are already working in, the field of Community Safety. 

Examples of organisations or practitioners who have already enrolled for this qualification include:

Councils
Police
Fire
Health Services
Social Landlords
Youth Services
Voluntary Groups
Charities
Private sponsors
Community groups
Individual citizens

To view a full list of the organisations who have studied with us visit the clients section of our website

Learning Outcomes

This qualification is a BTEC Level 2 learning accredited at this level will reflect the ability to:

Apply knowledge with underpinning comprehension in a number of areas and employ a range of skills within a number of contexts, some of which may be non-routine; and undertake directed activities, with a degree of autonomy, within time constraints.

This qualification will enable candidates to:

Course Content

Students will participate through exercises, case studies and instruction:

Community Safety Practice defined - To show an understanding of the practice of community safety and restorative approaches in a variety of formal and informal settings

Application of Community Safety Practice in the wider and local context - To show an understanding of the breadth of use of community safety and restorative approaches not just in their own situation but across a range of local and wider contexts and situations

Who to involve in Community Safety approaches - To show an understanding of who should participate in community safety approaches, including new initiatives such as advocate panels, police and crime commissioners, localism and the big society.

Preparation & Risk Assessment - To show an understanding of the management of risk through community safety processes.

Community Safety Strategies - To show an understanding of statutory responsibilities and subsequent guidance, neighbourhood strategies, and partnership responsibilities.

Community Safety systems and processes - To show an understanding of the Crime and Disorder Act, subsequent legislation, section 17, information and data sharing, problem orientated approaches including SARA & PAT and partnership cost saving models.

Community Safety Communication - To show an understanding of marketing and communication strategies, identifying communities of interest and fear of crime strategies.

Community Safety Project Management - To show an understanding of the principles of project management, links to performance management, research and evaluation terminology and risk assessments.

Cost

EXTENDED OFFER

To assist organisations and individuals adopt and make full use of this brand new qualification, we have maintained the reduced cost per student of almost half price to just £350 + vat.

This includes:

Tutorial Dates and Venues

This qualification can be delivered "In-House" to your organisation, network or partnership or by enrolling to attend one of the open programme venues listed below:

Autumn Term 2012 (September to November 2012)

London

13th and 14th September 2012

Birmingham

20th and 21st September 2012

Cardiff

27th and 28th September 2012

Liverpool

4th and 5th of October 2012

Middlesbrough

11th and 12th October

Associated Qualifications and Training

People who are interested in or have studied this qualification may also be interested in the following qualifications or training (click for details, opens in new window):

BTEC Advanced Award in Neighbourhood Nuisance and Anti-Social Behaviour Case Working

BTEC Professional Award Neighbourhood Nuisance and Anti-Social Behaviour Case Work Supervision

BTEC Advanced Award Operational use of powers contained in the Regulations of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) for Covert Human Intelligence Sources and Directed Surveillance.

BTEC Advanced Award in Practitioner Training for Restorative Approaches

BTEC Advanced Professional Diploma Neighourhood Justice

Conflict Management and Resolution Training

Problem Solving Training

Understanding and Responding to Stalking

To find out more about in house courses with the CSP Academy click here or contact us