Institute of Leadership & Management · RQF Level 7
ILM Level 7 Certificate in Public Policy Making (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 7
- Total credits30
- Guided learning168 hours
- Units in this qualification7
Awarded by Institute of Leadership & Management · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Institute of Leadership & Management 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.
Developing a strategic policy perspectiveReal unit · Institute of Leadership & Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the strategic context, the drivers, and the authorising environment within which policy decisions are made
- Understand the importance of building and managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Understand how to shape, influence and evaluate a policy proposal
Developing an effective policy evaluation framework and planReal unit · Institute of Leadership & Management
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate policy evaluation requirements and devise a meaningful and effective policy evaluation framework
- Justify the appropriate evaluation criteria and evidence base
- Devise a dynamic policy evaluation plan
Developing strategic policy interventionsReal unit · Institute of Leadership & Management
What you'll be able to do
- Assess the rationale for a policy intervention, based on a critical analysis of the strategic environment and drivers
- Scope, develop and assess initial policy intervention proposals and options.
- Develop and appraise policy proposals and options and make justified recommendations
- Evaluate and assess the outcomes of consultation and engagement and refine and revise proposals and options
- Critically review and finalise proposals, taking full account of the legislative framework that is available to support implementation and the implications for delivery
Evaluating the development of a strategic policy interventionReal unit · Institute of Leadership & Management
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate the rationale that was developed for a policy intervention, based on a critical analysis of the contemporary strategic environment and drivers.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the scoping process used to develop and assess initial policy intervention proposals and options
- Review and evaluate how the initial policy intervention was justified against subsequent outcomes
- Evaluate how the policy intervention was revised and improved taking into consideration the outcomes of consultation and engagement
- Evaluate the proposal that were submitted and make recommendations for improvement
Evaluating the implementation of a government policy interventionReal unit · Institute of Leadership & Management
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate the planning and organising of the transition from approval to implementation of a government policy intervention
- Critically analyse the business case produced to secure identified resources for policy intervention implementation.
- Review the Implementation Plan for the delivery of the policy intervention
- Evaluate the implementation of the government policy intervention
- Evaluate the leadership and the development of appropriate legislation in support of a policy intervention and in supporting ministers through its enactment
Implementing a government policy interventionReal unit · Institute of Leadership & Management
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and organise the transition from approval to implementation of a government policy intervention.
- Prepare a summary of a business case for securing identified resources for a policy intervention implementation
- Develop an Implementation Plan for the delivery of the policy intervention.
- Manage the implementation of the government policy intervention
- Lead the development and preparation of legislation in support of a policy intervention and support ministers through its enactment
Maintaining and upholding a current policy positionReal unit · Institute of Leadership & Management
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate and assess the impact of a changing policy landscape and strategic context on the effective delivery of a policy
- Uphold a current policy position strategically and operationally
- Analyse and evaluate reporting and performance data, to assess and manage risk, impact, performance, change and improvement
- Critically review and continually update operational guidance in response to change needs
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.
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 7 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
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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
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Commission and Oversee Outsourced Policy Evaluation
- Develop an organisational policy in a food and drink business
- Establish Strategic Direction in Line with Political Priorities for the Public Sector
- Manage political relationships and lobby for influence
Where this can lead
Senior Public Policy Lawyer
Your career path here is really what you make of it. Whether you want to lead teams, become a deep subject matter expert, or eventually influence policy at the highest levels, we're committed to giving you the opportunities and support to get there. It's a challenging but incredibly rewarding journey.
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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 ILM Level 7 Certificate in Public Policy Making (QCF)
7 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Institute of Leadership & Management.
- Developing a strategic policy perspective
- Developing an effective policy evaluation framework and plan
- Developing strategic policy interventions
- Evaluating the development of a strategic policy intervention
- Evaluating the implementation of a government policy intervention
- Implementing a government policy intervention
and 1 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.
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