As part of my region’s strategy, to deliver 155% of Unpaid Work 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. 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.

Some People on Probation will require support or will not have access to a device and my region (excluding London) will set up access to Community Campus sessions, from a site with WiFi using new UPW ETE laptops, which I will supervise.

People on Probation will access the platform via link or QR code on a smartphone, tablet and laptop and my UPW Case Administrator will set up a user account and email them their login details.  Through my user account, I will ensure People on Probation have access to and support with, the use of Community Campus. If they experience issues logging in or with the system itself, I should refer them to the online portal host, Meganexus (whose details I can obtain from the Case Administrator and ETE champions).

Guided learning hours are allocated for each course and the portal also records the ‘actual’ time my Person on Probation has taken at any point throughout the course. Where courses are completed within or under the guided learning time, the ‘actual’ time taken will be allocated. To support our neurodiverse People on Probation, or those that require extra time to complete a course, 20% allowance will be given by agreement. Community Campus will also translate/have subtitles in Welsh, Polish and Romanian.

I will keep practitioners informed of the Person on Probations progress and raise any concerns or issues that require a practitioner decision. I will print out their certificates on site, or request this via my Administrator.  Completed ETE hours, courses and certificates will be uploaded to nDelius by the UPW Case Administrators.

Having our own, inhouse learning management system and supervising its use for certain people on probation, means we can better track and record learning time allowing me to engage with my Person on probation’s progress and build a learning library suitable for the people in our care, meaning better employability outcomes for People on Probation.