Agored Cymru · RQF Level 2
Agored Cymru Level 2 Certificate In Young People’s Participation (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits18
- Guided learning79 hours
- Units in this qualification31
Awarded by Agored Cymru · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Agored Cymru 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.
Assertiveness SkillsReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand assertiveness.
- Use assertiveness techniques.
Campaigning Skills and KnowledgeReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand approaches to campaigning.
- Understand the legislative requirements of campaigning.
- Create a campaign action plan.
- Undertake a campaign.
- Report on the campaign.
Constructing Articles for the MediaReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the media and its formats.
- Construct a media article.
- Understand interview techniques.
- Understand safeguarding protocols as they relate to article production.
- Construct a news release.
Critical Thinking SkillsReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what is meant by critical thinking.
- Understand methods for improving critical thinking skills.
- Use critical thinking skills.
Decision-makingReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what is meant by decision-making.
- Understand decision-making techniques.
- Make decisions using decision-making techniques.
Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship ESDGC AwarenessReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand ESDGC themes.
Engaging with the MediaReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to make contact with the media.
- Understand how to match an article to a media outlet.
- Create a media information sheet.
- Contact the media.
- Monitor the media for an article.
Equality and DiversityReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand aspects of equality.
- Understand aspects of diversity.
- Understand stereotyping.
- Understand aspects of discrimination.
Ethics and MoralityReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand ethics, morality and values.
- Understand how ethics, morality and values are expressed.
FundraisingReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of fundraising and methods.
- Understand the knowledge and skills required for fundraising.
- Understand the safety requirements of fundraising.
- Understand how to create a fundraising plan.
- Undertake a fundraising activity.
GlobalisationReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand issues relating to globalisation.
- Know how globalisation has affected the world.
Information ManagementReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand data collection and sharing.
- Understand data storage.
Managing Power and InfluenceReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand power.
Managing a BudgetReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand responsibilities for managing a budget.
- Budget plan for a activity/project.
- Manage a budget.
Media Interviewer Skills and KnowledgeReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of a media interview.
- Understand the different approaches for using different media.
- Prepare for a media interview.
- Conduct a media interview.
- Produce interview notes.
- Reflect on the media interview.
Negotiation SkillsReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what is meant by negotiation.
- Understand negotiation techniques.
- Use negotiation solving techniques to reach a solution.
Problem-Solving SkillsReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what is meant by problem-solving.
- Understand problem-solving techniques.
- Use problem-solving techniques to reach a solution.
Providing FeedbackReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of feedback.
- Understand the principles of providing constructive feedback.
- Prepare to give constructive feedback.
- Provide constructive feedback.
- Reflect on providing constructive feedback.
Reflective PracticeReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand reflective practice.
- Use reflective practice.
Representing Young PeopleReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purposes, processes and skills of young people’s representatives.
Resilience SkillsReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand resilience and its impact.
- Understand how to develop an individual’s resilience.
- Develop resilience skills.
Safety within Peer ActivitiesReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand policies and procedures that organisations put in place to ensure that all individuals are safe.
- Understand implications of policies for peer activities.
- Understand risk assessment for peer activities.
Skills for being interviewed by the mediaReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare for a media interview.
- Prepare for a media interview.
- Understand how to conduct themselves for a media interview.
- Be interviewed for media purposes.
- Understand the differences of approach for audio and visual media.
- Reflect on the media interview.
The Changing Nature of Society in WalesReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the development of individual rights and freedoms in Wales and as part of a global context.
- Know about cultural identity.
- Understand diversity in Wales, and as part of a global context.
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the ChildReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of rights.
- Understand the need for children’s rights.
- Understand the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).
Using Social Media to Affect ChangeReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand social media and how it can affect change.
- Understand how to keep yourself and others safe.
- Create a social media strategy.
Volunteering and Community EngagementReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the possible opportunities for community engagement / volunteering.
- Contact a community group/organisation regarding volunteering.
- Participate in a community activity/organisation.
- Understand the outcomes of community enagement/participation.
Welsh Politics and StructuresReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the ideologies of the main political parties in Wales.
- Understand how Wales is governed including the roles of the National Assembly for Wales and the Welsh Government.
- Understand voting systems.
- Understand the purposes of a manifesto.
Young People's Participation - Having a VoiceReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Collect young people’s views.
- Implement a plan for young people’s consultation.
- Review planning for young people’s consultation.
Young People's Participation - MeetingsReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Organise an agenda and meeting minutes.
- Understand members' roles and responsibilities.
- Understand how to make decisions.
- Understand meeting attendance.
- Review a meeting.
Young People’s ParticipationReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the United Nations' Rights of the Child and the Children and Young People’s Participation Standards for Wales.
- Know about participation structures for children and young people.
- Understand participation expectations.
- Understand models for participation.
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.
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 2 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.
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 own work
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Agored Cymru Level 2 Certificate In Young People’s Participation (QCF)
31 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Agored Cymru.
- Assertiveness Skills
- Campaigning Skills and Knowledge
- Constructing Articles for the Media
- Critical Thinking Skills
- Decision-making
- Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship ESDGC Awareness
and 25 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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