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Free courses
Study for a nationally recognised qualification from home. These courses suit people building skills for their current job, and people looking for new work.
They’re Ofqual-regulated Level 2 courses, and they’re free if you’re eligible, through the Adult Skills Fund (formerly the Adult Education Budget).
Courses at a glance
- Courses
- 35, all free if you're eligible
- Level
- Level 2
- Subjects
- 4
- How you study
- Online, from home
Whether you can study for free depends on the course and on finding a provider that can fund you. Choose a course below, then use the "Am I eligible?" check on its page. It shows which providers offer that course.
Read who can get a free course.
All free courses
These courses are free if you're eligible. Some courses fit more than one subject, so they appear under each. The provider makes the final decision on whether you can study for free.
35 courses
Awareness of Mental Health Problems
Level 2
For anyone looking to develop their understanding of mental health and the problems that can cause mental ill health.
Mental health · Health & social care
Care and Management of Diabetes
Level 2
For a wide range of learners who wish to gain an understanding of the care and management of diabetes.
Health & social care
Cleaning Principles
Level 2
For learners who work, or want to work, in the cleaning sector.
Business
Common Health Conditions
Level 2
For learners looking to start work in, or already working in, health and social care, who would like an understanding of common health conditions.
Health & social care
Counselling Skills
Level 2
For anyone who would like to develop their use of counselling skills for use in either work or a personal capacity.
Mental health · Health & social care
Creating a Business Start-Up
Level 2
For learners seeking the skills and knowledge needed to develop a business start-up.
Business
Customer Service for Health and Social Care Settings
Level 2
For learners who want to develop an understanding of how to deliver effective customer service in health and social care settings.
Health & social care · Business
Digital Promotion for Business
Level 2
For learners looking to increase their knowledge and understanding of digital promotion in a business setting.
Business
Dignity and Safeguarding in Adult Health and Social Care
Level 2
For individuals working with, or intending to work with, vulnerable adults in the health and social care sectors.
Health & social care
Equality and Diversity
Level 2
For learners looking to develop an awareness of the issues surrounding equality and diversity.
Business
Falls Prevention Awareness
Level 2
For anyone working in a healthcare or social care environment, particularly those that support, or have contact with, older people.
Health & social care
Information, Advice or Guidance
Level 2
For learners working in, or looking to work in, an information, advice or guidance role.
Business
Introducing Caring for Children and Young People
Level 2
For learners looking to gain a basic understanding of childcare, parenting and babysitting.
Childcare
Lean Organisation Management Techniques
Level 2
For learners looking to increase their knowledge and understanding of lean organisation management techniques.
Business
Mental Health First Aid and Advocacy in the Workplace
Level 2
For learners who wish to raise awareness of mental health, create a culture of care and the promotion of positive mental health.
Mental health
Preparing to Work in Adult Social Care
Level 2
For anyone working towards a career in adult health and social care in a supervised job role.
Health & social care
Principles of Business Administration
Level 2
For learners looking to increase their knowledge and understanding of business administration.
Business
Principles of Care Planning
Level 2
For learners looking to understand their role in supporting the preferences and needs of individuals in relation to their care or support, the development and implementation of care plans and contributing to the review of these by observing, monitoring and reporting on the care activities they’re responsible for.
Health & social care
Principles of Customer Service
Level 2
For learners looking to increase their knowledge and understanding of customer service.
Business
Principles of Cyber Security
Level 2
For learners looking to gain a greater understanding of, or build upon their existing knowledge of, cyber security issues.
Business
Principles of Dementia Care
Level 2
For learners looking to develop their knowledge and understanding of the principles of caring for those with dementia.
Health & social care
Principles of End of Life Care
Level 2
For a wide range of learners who wish to gain an understanding of end of life care.
Health & social care
Principles of Team Leading
Level 2
For learners looking to gain the knowledge and understanding required to successfully lead a team.
Business
Principles of Warehousing and Storage
Level 2
For learners looking to enter and/or progress from entry roles in the warehousing and storage industries.
Business
Understanding Autism
Level 2
For learners who wish to develop an understanding of autism and how to support individuals with autism.
Health & social care · Childcare
Understanding Behaviour That Challenges
Level 2
For learners looking to increase their awareness and understanding of behaviour that challenges and its effects.
Health & social care · Mental health
Understanding Business Improvement Techniques
Level 2
For learners looking to increase their knowledge and understanding of business improvement techniques.
Business
Understanding Cancer Support
Level 2
For learners looking to increase their knowledge and understanding of supporting adults living with cancer.
Health & social care
Understanding Children and Young People's Mental Health
Level 2
For anyone looking to increase their knowledge and awareness of children and young people’s mental health (covering children aged 5 to 18).
Mental health · Childcare · Health & social care
Understanding Coding
Level 2
For learners looking to gain an introduction to coding within the digital sector.
Business
Understanding Common Childhood Illnesses
Level 2
For learners looking to increase their knowledge and understanding of common childhood illnesses (from birth to 5 years old).
Childcare
Understanding Data Protection and Data Security
Level 2
For learners looking to improve their knowledge of data protection and data security.
Business
Understanding Excellence in Customer Service for Hospitality
Level 2
For learners looking to enter, or progress within, employment in the hospitality sector.
Business
Understanding Personal Care Needs
Level 2
For learners who are working within the health and social care sector and are looking to gain specialist knowledge and understanding of personal care needs.
Health & social care
Understanding Workplace Violence and Harassment
Level 2
For learners looking to increase their knowledge and understanding of workplace violence and harassment across any sector.
Business
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