Skills Schemes Quality Manual

Last updated 2025

Quality Assurance

Mountain Training administers personal skills training for individuals and qualification schemes for leaders, instructors and coaches working with climbing, hill walking and mountaineering groups. Mountain Training and their providers educate, offer advice and promote good practice.

Quality assurance for Mountain Training leadership and skills schemes is managed by its constituent national organisations, such as Mountain Training England. This manual outlines how Mountain Training England works collaboratively with it's skills scheme providers and course tutors to achieve this.

Providers must adhere to the obligations outlined in the Provider Agreement. The agreement is digitally signed by the provider administrator. Our 'requirements' are highlighted throughout the 'Provider and course staff area' and should be considered mandatory.

 

1. Provider Responsibilities
2. Course Administration - providers
3. Tutor Responsibilities
4. Course Administration - tutors
5. Course Staff Requirements
6. Maintaining Approval - providers and tutors
7. Professional Conduct
8. Observers
9. Course Delivery and Ratios
10. Equipment
11. Base Environments
12. Venues
13. Adverse Weather Conditions
14. Candidate Management System and Digital Logbook
15. Moderation Visits
16. Equality
17. Incidents and Near Misses
18. Annual Audit
19. Mountain Training England Dispute Resolution Process
20. Support for providers, tutors and participants