Re: Requirements for Animal First Aid Training

Mark Hedberg — Sun, 16 Mar 2014 10:40:29 GMT

Generally speaking, you only need PTLLS if you're going to be offering an accredited qualification or working for a college. If you're just running your own courses for your own business you don't need a formal teaching qualification. (Provided, of course, you're good at teaching.) PTLLS stands for Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector - which is formal education as opposed to private CPD.

It's a good idea to have at least some outline so you can offer a consistent experience, but unless you're doing a qualification there's no particular reason you can't run your own idea of what you think makes a good animal first aid course. There are quite a few organizations out there running AFA courses, however, so you will probably have to be either very cheap or very good. (No offense intended, it's just there's a lot of competition out there.)

Cheers,
Mark