Creating sustainable human resources in terms of effective usable competences with potential to cascade across groups and organisations is a strategy that MODA has used through building up the skills and qualifications of its own team on the one hand, and providing competence-building training and 1-2-1 technical support to other groups.

As part of MODA/IslingtonCAB Quality Support Project, four staff members from MODA and the project and four from CABs participated in a week-long intensive training programme to qualify the trainees to become certificated auditors for the internationally-recognised ISO 19001 standards. The residential training was provided by the Institute of Quality Assurance - Lead Auditor Training- from 23 to 27 October 2006.

There was a 2-hour written exam at the end of the training. Those who pass will become certificated lead auditors and can use the incredible amount of theoretical and practical learning from the course to check and build up the quality systems of the groups they work with. They can also provide training based on adapting their new learning with their long experience in the voluntary sector.

QSP’s aim of organising this course was mainly to prepare our own staff to become qualified quality auditors for the purpose of achieving our target of enabling up to 100 London community groups to obtain Quality Mark or other recognized quality standards over the next two years

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