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The England Standards Board (ESB) was established in 1997 to provide a professional system of endorsement of quality for all types of training and learning in community development work. It has been developed by community development practitioners, training providers and employers, to provide a way of ensuring and recognising quality community development work learning programmes. ESB is recognised by LLUK (Lifelong Learning UK) as the endorsing body for all Community Development Work Learning. ESB provides a peer based endorsement process for Community Development Learning - courses and work based programmes – at all level, accredited and non-accredited programmes. The national occupational standards for community development form the basis for our criteria. Our endorsement process is about development and well as meeting standards at a point in time and so we encourage programmes to tell us about their innovative and good practice. We encourage them to learn from others, and we use this information to develop good practice guidelines which are posted onto the ESB website. The Board provides advice and assistance to courses/ programmes, training providers and awarding bodies who wish to design and develop new programmes and awards. The Board has been involved in many national and regional projects over the years designed to support and improve the range and quality of Community Development Learning. In 2008 FCDL secured a grant from the national empowerment partnership for several projects. Two of these were joint ventures between ESB and FCDL – one of which was to create a new resource for employers and training providers on ensuring skills and knowledge around community empowerment is developed by their staff and course participants. Another project was to develop a new model for an accreditation through experience pathway to qualification. This pack was created as part of the first project to provide guidance to employers, and training providers, on community empowerment and engagement within existing and future programmes for community development learning. This pack is now available here on the ESB website as a series of pages and downloadable pdfs. Click here to go to the contents.
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