ASDAN · RQF Entry Level
ASDAN Entry Level Certificate in Personal and Social Development (Entry 2) (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Entry Level
- Total credits14
- Guided learning60 hours
- Units in this qualification28
Awarded by ASDAN · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units ASDAN registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Action Planning and ReviewingReal unit · ASDAN
What you'll be able to do
- Set goals and related targets
- Make an action plan
- Follow an action plan
- Review an action plan
Action Planning and ReviewingReal unit · ASDAN
What you'll be able to do
- Set goals and related targets.
- Make an action plan.
- Follow an action plan.
- Review an action plan.
Community Involvement/ActionReal unit · ASDAN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand aspects of ‘communities’
- Know the needs of differing groups within a community
- Understand the term ‘community involvement’
- Understand the benefits of community involvement
Community Involvement/ActionReal unit · ASDAN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand aspects of ‘communities’
- Know the needs of differing groups within a community
- Understand the term ‘community involvement’
- Understand the benefits of ‘community involvement’
Dealing with ProblemsReal unit · ASDAN
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise a problem
- Plan to solve a problem
- Follow a plan
- Recognise if a problem has been solved
Dealing with Problems: Entry Level 3Real unit · ASDAN
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise a problem
- Plan to solve a problem
- Follow a plan
- Recognise if a problem has been solved
Developing SelfReal unit · ASDAN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand personal strengths and abilities
- Recognise a personal goal
- Plan for self improvement
- Make positive decisions
Developing SelfReal unit · ASDAN
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise personal strengths, skills, qualities and abilities.
- Understand a personal goal
- Action plan for self improvement
- Make positive decisions
Environmental ActionReal unit · ASDAN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate an understanding that people’s small, individual actions have a cumulative effect.
- Demonstrate an understanding that some human activities pose a threat to the planet.
- Demonstrate an understanding that some things can be recycled, and that this is beneficial.
- Demonstrate an understandingthat their own actions can make a difference.
Environmental ActionReal unit · ASDAN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate an understanding that people’s small, individual actions have a cumulative effect.
- Demonstrate an understanding that some human activities pose a threat to the planet.
- Demonstrate an understanding that some things can be recycled, and that this is beneficial.
- Demonstrate an understandingthat their own actions can make a difference.
Equality/DiversityReal unit · ASDAN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand some aspects of equality and diversity
- Understand fair and unfair treatment
- Recognise diversity within communities
Equality/DiversityReal unit · ASDAN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand some aspects of equality
- Understand fair and unfair treatment
- Recognize the diversity of communities
Healthy LivingReal unit · ASDAN
What you'll be able to do
- Know what is needed to lead a healthy lifestyle
- Understand the importance of a balanced diet
- Understand the importance of personal hygiene
- Understand the importance of personal fitness
- Understand the meaning of the term ‘safe sex’
- Understand the impact of alcohol and drug abuse on a healthy lifestyle
Healthy LivingReal unit · ASDAN
What you'll be able to do
- Know what is needed to lead a healthy lifestyle
- Understand the importance of a balanced diet
- Understand the importance of personal hygiene
- Understand the importance of personal fitness
- Understand the meaning of the term ‘safe sex’
- Understand the impact of alcohol and drugs on a healthy lifestyle
Managing MoneyReal unit · ASDAN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the difference between ‘income’ and ‘expenditure’
- Understand the importance of having a personal budget.
- Use cash properly
- Used different ways to pay for things
Managing MoneyReal unit · ASDAN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the difference between ‘income’ and ‘expenditure’
- Understand the importance of personal budgeting
- Understand the importance of handling cash properly
- Use different ways to pay for things
Managing Social RelationshipsReal unit · ASDAN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand body language.
- Understand the difference between positive and negative feedback
- Understand aggressive, passive and assertive behaviour.
- Recognize an individual’s rights and responsibilities.
Managing Social RelationshipsReal unit · ASDAN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand body language.
- Understand the difference between positive and negative feedback
- Understand aggressive, passive and assertive behaviour.
- Recognize an individual’s rights and responsibilities.
Parenting AwarenessReal unit · ASDAN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate an understanding that being a new parent can be stressful.
- Demonstrate an understanding that babies must be kept safe in the home.
- Demonstrate an understanding that help is available for new parents.
- Demonstrate an understanding that facilities are available locally for young parents and their children.
Parenting AwarenessReal unit · ASDAN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate an understanding that being a new parent can be stressful.
- Demonstrate an understanding that babies must be kept safe in the home.
- Demonstrate an understanding that help is available for new parents.
- Demonstrate an understanding that facilites are available locally for young parents and their children.
Preparation for WorkReal unit · ASDAN
What you'll be able to do
- Know the skills and qualities needed for working life
- Listen and respond to instructions
- Use appropriate body language
- Investigate personal career opportunities
- Understand the interview process
Preparation for WorkReal unit · ASDAN
What you'll be able to do
- Know the skills and qualities needed for working life
- Listen and respond to instructions
- Use appropriate body language
- Investigate personal career opportunities
- Understand the interview process
Rights and ResponsibilitiesReal unit · ASDAN
What you'll be able to do
- Know the legal rights and responsibilities of individuals
- Understand personal rights and responsibilities
- Know the services available to the local community
Rights and ResponsiblitiesReal unit · ASDAN
What you'll be able to do
- Know the legal rights and responsibilities of an individual
- Understand personal rights and responsibilities
- Know the services available to the local community
- Understand the difference between ‘legal’ and ‘moral’ rights and responsibilities
Team WorkingReal unit · ASDAN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what needs to be achieved
- Work with others towards achieving objectives
- Recognize if/when objectives have been achieved
Team WorkingReal unit · ASDAN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what needs to be done
- Work with others towards achieving objectives
- Review progress
Using Leisure TimeReal unit · ASDAN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate an understanding that there are positive and negative ways to socialise
- Demonstrate an understanding that some leisure activities are relaxing.
- Demonstrate an understanding that some leisure activities are stimulating or challenging
- Demonstrate an understanding that some leisure activities involve learning and exercising new skills.
Using Leisure TimeReal unit · ASDAN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate an understanding that there are positive and negative ways to socialise
- Demonstrate an understanding that some leisure activities are relaxing.
- Demonstrate an understanding that some leisure activities are stimulating or challenging
- Demonstrate an understanding that some leisure activities involve learning and exercising new skills.
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Entry Level credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
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Where this can lead
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Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for ASDAN Entry Level Certificate in Personal and Social Development (Entry 2) (QCF)
16 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ASDAN.
- Action Planning and Reviewing
- Community Involvement/Action
- Dealing with Problems
- Dealing with Problems: Entry Level 3
- Developing Self
- Environmental Action
and 10 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.