Training Calendar

This course will help those tasked with providing information on the local labour market to identify relevant information and source it. The course covers the identification of information on demand and supply in the local area, commuting and its impact on local labour market indicators, and how to understand the classifications used in labour market analysis.

Frequently managers feel nervous about training/presenting knowledge based learning
Perhaps it might be the feeling of ‘being under the spotlight’ or the possibility of a learner challenging them.

Learning is concerned with developing skills, knowledge and a positive shift in attitude – so as long as the trainer has the knowledge, competence and obvious enthusiasm for the subject – then the learning outcomes should be achieved.

This workshop will focus on how to help under and over 40 year old white collar executives who have been made redundant due to the credit crunch.
We will explore the type of offers that are likely to be most successful in helping members of these two groups to set up new niche businesses, move back into employment, self employment or volunteering through integrated training and employment packages.

Working with people who pose significant risks to themselves or others is a challenge and concern for workers, carers and service users themselves. This course examines our own beliefs and definitions and blends these with lessons learned and best practice.

This workshop is designed to identify how partners can work together more effectively to design and deliver outreach and engagement activities that can continue to pull people with multiple disadvantages into skills development and sustainable employment opportunities.

This highly participative workshop will help organisations to understand how they can be at the forefront of this policy driver by helping you to develop practical ideas and actions that you can put into practice to bring results for your customers and business benefits for your organisation.

This course is aimed at frontline workers who wish to develop a more informed and inclusive approach to their clients who have been labelled as having a mental health problem. Looking at the stigma of the label mental health, this course challenges some of our deeply held societal beliefs and the negative impact this can have on our work with individuals.

All of our funders want it. Senior managers tell us we should do it. But how do we avoid service user involvement becoming another tokenistic process and find ways to really allow our service users to impact positively on the policy, practice and development of our services.

Effective planning of learning is the key to success for all work based learning and welfare to work programmes. This is often an area of improvement identified in Ofsted inspections which was confirmed in their latest Annual Report.

The need for health, skills and employment services to be co-ordinated and integrated is a key issue identified across Government Departments and agencies. Getting people with health problems back to work and keeping them in work is a particularly challenging priority as unemployment levels rise.

This highly participative workshop will help organisations to understand how they can be at the forefront of this policy driver by helping you to develop practical ideas and actions that you can put into practice to bring results for your customers and business benefits for your organisation.

Star Rating, already piloted within Employment Zones, will become the new quality measure by which DWP will monitor its contracted provision, and will be a key contract performance measure for Flexible New Deal and other provision moving ahead. It will ultimately influence future contract – award decision – making and moving market share allocations in multiple provider areas.

This highly participative workshop will help Local Authorities, Learning and Skills Council, Jobcentre Plus and delivery partners to understand how they can be at the forefront of this policy driver by helping you to develop practical ideas and actions that you can put into practice to bring results for your customers and business benefits for your organisation.

This introductory course will offer participants an introduction to practical steps that can be taken to include TR&T in public sector contracts and agreements so as to maximise the social inclusion impact of the relevant developments. The course will dispel some of the myths and focus on practical steps and good practice that will enable participants to champion TR&T rather than rely on trickle-down and voluntary outcomes.

This course aims to help participants solve common housing benefit problems and to quickly resolve issues which frequently cause distress and hardship to tenants and rent arrears to the landlord. The course will also give participants confidence in using a standard reference book as a tool for tackling such problems.

The Government has an aspiration to eradicate child poverty by 2020 and to halve it by 2010. Explore the nature of child poverty, and the mechanisms by which you can begin to understand your own local child poverty context, with examples of how local areas have begun to develop a joined up approach.

This course will enable participants to find their way through the maze of benefits for young people aged 16 and 17 and enable them to advise and advocate in confidence on common scenarios. The course complements Inclusion’s Young Person’s Handbook and the training will make it easier for participants to use this important text.

Over the last ten years there has been a significant change in the way welfare to work policies have been delivered in the UK. Fundamental changes have been made to the system through a range of new employment programmes, reform of benefits, financial support for those in work and changes in delivery mechanisms.

Preventing change for change’s sake, but finding new ways to provide services that have not achieved the outcomes required can allow services to be provided more efficiently, let service users have more control or even find a new way completely that achieves the desired outcomes more profoundly.

This interactive workshop explores diversity and employment issues from both supply and demand sides when it comes to creating employment opportunities among hard-to-reach groups and tackling social exclusion of minorities in society and employment.

This workshop is designed to identify how partners can work together more effectively to design and deliver outreach and engagement activities that can continue to pull people with multiple disadvantages into skills development and sustainable employment opportunities.

• This course is aimed at helping local partners identify and use local labour market information in the development and monitoring of local employment and skills strategies. The course is for those who provide statistical support to local partners and covers a wide range of relevant factors at an advanced level compared with the introductory course. Questions considered include skill needs beyond the recession. Participants will be introduced to statistical software such as SPSS and/or R as wel

This session will take participants through the process of how to their organisation should measure soft indicators and distance travelled.

You will be taken through the necessary steps to leave with a blueprint specifically tailored both to the needs service user group and the aims and objectives of your organisation.

The workshop will engage you in discussion, practical group exercises and experiential sessions.

Some neighbourhoods have very high numbers of people claiming out of work benefits. Hear about the lessons learnt from best practice in the UK. Find out more about how to design and deliver neighbourhood approaches to supporting people in to employment and training. Explore the key success factors, from getting the right staff to how to get partners and services at the local level to join up better.

Local authorities have a key role in galvanising partners at the local level to reduce worklessness. Taking the findings of the Hougthon review, explore the ways local authorites can make a difference, from developing employment and skills strategies, to securing economic benefit through procurement.

Preventing change for change’s sake, but finding new ways to provide services that have not achieved the outcomes required can allow services to be provided more efficiently, let service users have more control or even find a new way completely that achieves the desired outcomes more profoundly.

Local authorities are often the largest employer in an area, and as such can play a key role in supporting people furthest from the labour market in to employment. Hear about practical examples of how local authorities have implemented initiatives from apprenticeship and employment programmes to changing recruitment methods to make a difference.

This course explains the main rules about Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) for people who are out of work because of a disability or health problem. It covers who is entitled, how the various assessments work and the rules about compulsory interviews and action plans, sanctions, work you can do while claiming, the relationship with Housing and Council Tax Benefits, and useful tactics.

This course is aimed at enabling those providing statistical support to local partners to identify and use data on the month-by-month course of the recession in local areas, and trends over the shorter term

This series of workshops provides opportunities for you to understand more about how to design and deliver comprehensive and integrated employment focused pathways for people who are at most disadvantage.

Over the last ten years there has been a significant change in the way welfare to work policies have been delivered in the UK. Fundamental changes have been made to the system through a range of new employment programmes, reform of benefits, financial support for those in work and changes in delivery mechanisms.

Why is it that same providers always seem to win the best contracts? Why is there never enough time for us to get our bids written? How do we know if our tender price will be competitive? Why didn’t we know about that great opportunity that our competitors won? And, just how can we win more bids?

What more can you and your partners do support financial inclusion? Find out more about how to develop a joined up partner response focusing on three areas: prevention, intervention and sustainability.