Learning
Find out about our volunteer learning and how you can access it
Interim process for when Compass goes offline
This process will be impacted by Compass going offline for everyone from Thursday 7 November. For details on how this process is impacted and what you'll need to do instead, please take a look at our interim processes.
Find out more about the interim processesWe want all our volunteers to have the skills and knowledge they need to feel confident to keep young people safe and help them gain skills for life.
We organise learning at Scouts in what we call the Learning Tree. It's made up of:
Growing Roots
The learning all new volunteers need to do within their first six months.
Learn more about Growing RootsBranching Out
The learning you can choose to do to develop your knowledge further and get accreditations.
Learn more about Branching OutSafety, Safeguarding and First Response learning need to renewed every three years.
Click through our interactive Learning Tree to find out more.
How to access learning and keep track of your progress
Sign in to scouts.org.uk and go to ‘My learning’ to access all our learning and to view your learning record.
There you can see the learning you need to do, explore other learning you might be interested in, request to be assessed and keep track of your progress.
If you lead a team, you can also see your team’s learning records and create learning reports to check how your team is getting on.
Read the My learning digital tool guide to learn how to do this.
Who can support you with learning
If you’re joining Scouts for the first time or changing to a new team or role, your Team Leader or Lead Volunteer will help you understand what learning you need to do.
District and County / Area / Region Volunteering Development Teams are there to support all volunteers with their learning. They manage the learning offer locally and can answer any questions you might have.
Volunteers with the Learning Assessor accreditation are responsible for crediting learning on scouts.org.uk.
Moving from the Adult Training Scheme to Learning
Understand the changes and how we’re transitioning to our new learning.
Discover how we're moving to Learning