6661019 intro to the award principles and conditions

8/8/2019 6661019 Intro to the Award Principles and Conditions

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The Duke of Edinburghs Awardaims to provide an enjoyable,

challenging and rewardingprogramme of personal

development for young people,which is of the highest quality and

widest reach.

The Aim of the Award


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Vision

To be universally

recognised and widelyadopted as the bestprogramme for the

personal development ofyoung people


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Non-competitive

Available to all Voluntary

Flexible

Balanced

Progressive

Achievement

Focused Marathon not a

Sprint

PersonalDevelopment

Enjoyable!

10 Key Principles


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Whats in it for Young People


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Whats in it for young people?

Self Belief

Self Confidence

A sense of identity Independence of thought and

action

A sense of responsibility An awareness of their potential

New talents and abilities


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Whats in it for young

people?

An understanding of strengths andweaknesses

The ability to plan and use time

effectivelyThe ability to learn from and give to

others in the community

New relationships

Skills, including problem solving,presentation and communication

The ability to lead and work as part of a

team


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The AwardAt a Glance


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The Award and its OperationalStructures

Participants

Award

Groups

Operating

Authorities

10 Regional

Award

Offices

The Patron

and Trustees

UK Award

Head Office

Local award committees

National and RegionalAdvisory Committees

General CouncilLinkInternational

Award

Access and Assisting

Organisations


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Operating Authorities (OA)

OAs obtain a licence torun the Award. Units andgroups deliver the Award.

An Award Officer runs the

OA usually supported byan administrator (s),fundraiser (s),development worker (s).

OAs include LEAs,Voluntary and Uniformedorganisations.

OAs have

Roles and Responsibilities:

Child Protection Policies Health and Safety Requirements

Risk Assessment Approval of Trainers,

Supervisors, Assessors Issuing Record Books Approval of Completed Awards Checking on quality Safeguard Aims and standards

of the Award


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Roles

and

Responsibiliti

es


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Benefits to

Organisations


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Award Resource Materials


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Handbook

Navigation


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Three Levels of Award

All Awards must be completed by the Participants 25thbirthday

Earliest age tostart 16 years

and nodiscretion

Earliest agefor completion17yrs (17yrs 6months for a

direct entrant)

Age of entry 15years, some

discretion forBronze Award

holdersEarliest age for

completion

15yrs 6 months

(16yrs for a directentrant)

Entry at 14 withsome discretion

allowed

Earliest age for

completion14yrs 6 months

GoldSilverBronze


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Bronze Award

Expedition 2 Days / 1 Night

6 Hours of planned activity

An additional 3 months must be undertaken

in any of these Sections

3 Months3 Months3 Months

PhysicalRecreation

SkillsService


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Silver Award

Expedition 3 Days / 2 Night


Direct Entrants an additional 6 months in

either the Service or the longer

(skills or Physical Recreation) Section

One Section for 3 months

and the other for 6 Months

6 Months

PhysicalRecreationSkillsService


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Gold Award

Expedition - 4 Days / 3Night


Direct Entrants an additional 6 months in

either the Service or the longer

(Skills or Physical Recreation) Section

One Section for 12 months

and the other for 6 Months

12 Months

Physical

Recreation

SkillsService


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How it Works

To gain an Awardyoung people have todo four activities, fiveat Gold

Service

Skills

PhysicalRecreation

Expedition

Residential Project


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Activity ChoicesActivities have been

designated to Sections andcan only be counted towardsthat Section of the Award.

Activities not obvious or listed,check the Programmes File,Website, Operating Authorityor Regional Office.

New Activities not listed that aparticipant wants to do theAward will look at accreditingit. Check it out!


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General Conditions 1

The choice of activities is that of theparticipants

Activities should offer a realistic challengewith attainable targets

Each activity at each level may be changed

once Sectional Certificates are available at each

level

Activities undertaken in the 3 months prior

The purchase on an entrance pack signifies

the commencement of an Award


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General Conditions 2

The Award must be undertaken in personalor non-directed time

Activities may be vocational but must notbe a requirement of education or work cannot get paid!

Qualifications gained during directed orwork time may count but.. the minimum

time involvement must be completed inpersonal time


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Movin On!

Participants may start on a Section ofthe next Award prior to completing theirexisting Award provided.

The have a record book pack for the next

Award

They have completed that Section in theprevious Award

They are above the minimum age of entry forthe next Award

They are not working on all three Awards atthe same time!


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One to Remember!

Where necessary, participants may choose tochange the activity undertaken once in eachSection at any time during participation

Both should be recorded in the Record Book

The two periods of participation should add upto at least the minimum time requirement forthe particular section


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Assessmen

t

Effort

Perseverance

Progress


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TheAward

Programme

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