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Planning your learning
Planning your learning might feel like a big task, especially if you haven’t done much formal learning since school. Where do you start? How do you decide what to learn? How do you make time for learning when you’re already busy?
Our Planning your learning resource helps answer these questions. It shows you simple ways to:
- look at your day-to-day work to spot what learning would help most
- turn big learning goals into smaller, manageable steps
- use different ways of learning – not just training courses
- plan your time so learning fits around your work
- keep track of your progress using MyLearning.
Whether you’re new to social services or have years of experience, good planning makes learning easier and more useful. This badge recognises your ability to plan learning that works for you and helps you do your job better.
You can earn this badge by completing our Planning your learning resource and showing how you’ll use what you’ve learned to develop your skills and knowledge.
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To achieve this badge, you must:
- complete the Planning your learning resource and pass the knowledge check at the end
- tell us why it is important to plan your learning and explain how you will do this (50 words minimum)
- tell us about the three most important things you learned from the resource and why you feel these are important to you (150 words minimum)
- tell us about how you intend to share you plan with your manager/supervisor/mentor/tutor, why this is important and how often you will do this (50 words minimum)
- think about a challenge that could get in the way of planning your learning and tell us how you intend to overcome it (optional)
The total word count for your evidence submission should not exceed 600 words.
Your application will be returned to you with a request for further evidence if it does not meet all the above criteria or is unclear which of these questions you are answering within your evidence.
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Terms and conditions
1. I have read, understood and completed all activities listed in the badge criteria. The evidence I have provided answers each question from the criteria.
2. I confirm that the evidence I have submitted is free from personally identifiable information of others. Nobody can be identified, directly or indirectly, from any examples I provide.
3. I wrote or recorded my evidence, and I have not copied it from anywhere else. The core content, ideas and examples are my own original work. I agree that I will only use AI tools under the rules outlined by the SSSC, and if I do so, I will explicitly declare this use in my submission and provide a valid link to the chat history for the assessor to review.
4. I give consent for the SSSC and the people I share this badge with to use plagiarism and AI detection tools to validate the authenticity of the evidence I have submitted.
5. I understand that it may take up to 28 days to assess my application and that feedback cannot always be provided if it is unsuccessful.
Your evidence, name, and email address will be sent to the organisation who issue this badge