As part of my region’s strategy to deliver 155% of Unpaid Work (UPW) Education, Training and Employment (ETE) hours, from 5^th December, People on Probation with an Unpaid Work (UPW) requirement, will have access to Community Campus, a national online learning portal enabling those eligible to complete 30% of their hours by ETE. At present, enforcing completion of ETE hours on Community Campus is not mandated, however this will be reviewed along with the Community Payback ETE Guidance document due in January to February 2023.

The UPW assessment tool will identify those eligible, allowing the Practitioner to discuss suitability and accessibility and agree on the most appropriate course/s. Initially People on Probation will have access to four courses, all designed to improve their skills for completing UPW hours or to improve employability, with a comprehensive suite available in early 2023 which will continue to be added to.

I will set up and email the Person on Probation with their log in details, which they will use to access the platform via link or QR code on a smartphone, tablet and laptop. My practitioner will help them to set up an email account should they need support. Those that require support or do not have access to a device, will be invited to attend a supported access session, (excluding London) run by our Supervisors from a site with WiFi. My region will be provided with 30 new UPW ETE laptops, and my line manager will inform me as to when these sessions will run.  If my Person on Probation has any issues with log in, or the system itself, my practitioner and I can refer them to the online host, Meganexus.

I will run regular reports on the number of hours and courses completed, print out completion certificates and update nDelius with both, as evidence. Guided learning hours are allocated for each course and the portal also records the ‘actual’ time the Person on Probation has taken. Where courses are completed within or under the guided learning time, I will allocate the ‘actual’ time taken. To support our neurodiverse People on probation, or those that require extra time to complete a course, 20% allowance will be given by agreement with the practitioner. Community Campus will also translate/have subtitles in English, Welsh and Polish (with more languages to be available in the future). I will inform practitioners of completed courses and alert them to anyone who has been allocated a set of log-in details but hasn’t logged into the portal for an agreed period. This will encourage my practitioner to engage with their Person on Probation and offer further support should they need it.

I will have full access to the portal and will also need to set up the staff user accounts. I will also deactivate accounts once the Person on probation has completed their course/s to enable that licence to be used by a new user. In December, my region’s ETE Champions will support me in doing this.