Partner events

Institute of Public Care - New Courses for 2012

* Birmingham: 18-19 April and 16-17 May

* London: 30-31 May and 27-28 June

Four-day course to help you redesign services and achieve the best use of resources. The courses draw on CSP's work with local area partners to develop and implement good commissioning practice. Further information and booking details on the IPC website at: http://ipc.brookes.ac.uk/courses/commissioning_purchasing.htm

Other courses we offer

IPC is one of the Commissioning Support Programme delivery partners. We provide an extensive range of training for commissioners and providers of public care, with an option to accredit.

Commissioning Skills Training for Adult’s Commissioners If you commission adults' services, we have an open course in Oxford on 16-17 May & 13-14 June. More details at http://ipc.brookes.ac.uk/courses/commissioning_purchasing.htm

Workforce Leadership

The social care workforce is your most expensive and most valuable resource. Establish whether your workforce is fit for purpose. New course dates in October and November 2012. More information at http://ipc.brookes.ac.uk/courses/workforce.html

Market & Service Development for Providers How can you identify and create business opportunities in the current climate? Gain skills and confidence to respond to the commissioning agenda. New course starting in September in Birmingham. More details at http://ipc.brookes.ac.uk/courses/providers.htm

Skills Development Workshops

We have an exciting new programme of one day workshops for commissioners, managers, heads of service and directors of public care organisations. This programme offers cost-effective skills development and focuses on current issues such as leadership and implementing change, efficiencies and market development. All workshops have the option of being accredited by Oxford Brookes University. More information at http://ipc.brookes.ac.uk/courses/default.htm

Training developed for your organisation If you are interested in bespoke training delivered in-house for your team or service, contact Jane Taylor on 01225 484088 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it <mailto: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > .

15 Billion – Training Opportunities

For more details log onto http://www.15billion.org/training-directory/

JANUARY

Training for staff and volunteers working with young people - 13 Jan 2012

Certificate in Working with Young People with Disabilities -19, 20 & 25 Jan 2012

Building Effective Evaluation & Planning –26 Jan 2012

FEBRUARY

Young People & Homelessness -2 Feb 2012

Health & Safety in the Workplace - CIEH Level 2 Award -8 Feb 2012

Practical Skills Supporting & Supervising Volunteers-13 Feb 2012

Certified Fire Warden Training –15 Feb 2012

Building effectiveness and resilience in times of change and challenge -20 Feb 2012

Working with girls in gangs -21 Feb 2012

Public Speaking for Practitioners, Managers and Volunteers -22 Feb 2012

Using Twitter to enhance your service and your professional practice -23 Feb 2012

Certificate in Supervision Studies -Starts Feb 2012

MARCH

Working with Families -6 Mar 2012

Welfare Benefits for Young People -7 Mar 2012

Facilitating online engagement with young people using social media tools -8 Mar 2012

Working with disabled young people to encourage and enable full participation -21 Mar 12

Principles of Risk Assessment – CIEH Level 2 Award –22 Mar 2012

The Participation Strategy: raising the education-training leaving age and tackling youth unemployment

The seminar follows the release in December 2011 of the Government’s Participation Strategy , Building Engagement, Building Futures , which includes the £1 billion ‘Youth Contract’ for tackling youth unemployment that currently stands at record high levels according to latest figures. Plans to implement the raising of the education and training participation age to 18 by 2015 and the practical challenges of this will also be a focus of discussion.

The agenda includes keynote contributions from the Department for Education ; Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and Department for Work and Pensions .

Planned sessions look at:

· The impact of Government’s plans to raise the education or training participation age to 17 in 2013 and 18 by 2015;

· The role for schools, colleges, private and third sector training organisations and local authorities in reducing youth unemployment;

· The future of apprenticeship opportunities for young people and alternatives such as work pairing or internships;

· The ‘Youth Contract’, providing measures to encourage more businesses to employ young people and;

· Tailored support for young people particularly ‘at risk’ of unemployment such as teenage mothers or ex-offenders.

View details online here. The seminar is organised on the basis of strict impartiality by the Westminster Education Forum and Westminster Employment Forum.

New Philanthropy Capital

NPC is delighted to announce a programme of training workshops for 2012 with the first now available to book online.

The programme will be a mixture of new and favourite topics that takes NPC's extensive experience and knowledge and puts it into practical and informative training events. Alongside the space for reflection and the sharing of experiences with other attendees, the interactive sessions will provide you with practical advice and ideas to take away. The training will be delivered by experts from NPC’s Research & Consulting team who bring both theoretical expertise and practical experience of working with individual charities and funders.

Topics and dates confirmed are:

Theory of change

An introduction to the use of theory of change for planning and evaluation.

Dates: 27 January and 25 April

Social investment

An introduction to social investment, its uses and the main products. An opportunity to assess to what extent social investment might be appropriate to your charity.

Dates: 3 February, 21 March and 17 May

Further topics and dates are to be announced.

Signing up

To find out more and book your place, please visit our website. Do pass this invitation on to contacts who might be interested, and please note that space will be limited at each event, so we advise early booking to avoid disappointment.

Youth Offending: Early Intervention, Effective Rehabilitation

The violent disorder in August has sparked a national debate over the future of youth justice policies, with political and media discourse centred on developing effective methods of young offender management and rehabilitation, due to fears looming over a lost generation of youths and a diminishing sense of community and family morals.

In response, the government has recently designed a new assessment tool that requires the integration of health and children’s services in order to produce a wider understanding of the needs of young people, specifically taking into account the social and mental health issues that often accompany youth offending.

The new system replaces the current Youth Justice Boards ‘asset assessment tool,' and will reform the way in which services educate and rehabilitate children on remand, requiring a complete overhaul of offender rehabilitation processes.

With this in mind, Inside Government would like to invite you to attend 'Youth Offending: Early Intervention, Effective Rehabilitation,' taking place on Thursday 23rd February 2012, with key contributions from the Youth Justice Board, Ministry of Justice, Restorative Justice Council and Catch 22.

REASONS TO ATTEND:

- Hear about strategies to encourage young people to engage positively with their community through a rehabilitation revolution
- Discuss how to improve the prospects of young people through education and training opportunities
- Debate How the August's riots impact on the future youth justice policy?
- Understand the future funding opportunities for youth justice services
- Learn about the new practice standards for youth offending teams, probation and prisons

This discursive forum will address gang crime and gang prevention strategies and ways of involving young people in restorative justice approaches, offering delegates the opportunity to learn about new programmes to support young offenders into work and help young people at risk of falling into a cycle of offending.

REGISTER YOUR PLACE ONLINE - http://insidegovernment.msgfocus.com/c/111Kb6sqC7LJPxL5N9etpMstn

Thinking Seriously about...Youth Work and Policy

Thursday 15 Mar 2012 - YMCA George Williams College, London

Youth and Policy's fourth 'thinking seriously' conference will explore current youth policy and consider its implications for the youth work field. The conference aims to bring together political, academic, managerial and practice perspectives for open dialogue about policy affecting young people and youth work.

Over recent months, many events have taken place with subsequent policy implications for youth work organisation and practice.
Following the implementation of Coalition spending cuts, the Select Committee on Services for Young People, and the riots of summer 2011, a conference to reflect on these events and their consequences in early 2012 is timely and useful.

We hope that the conference will present a challenge to practitioners, managers and academics to consider the new landscape, and how policy and practice might be better shaped in the light of evidence and experience.
Youth Work and Policy Booking form.doc

Global Youth Work - A Short Course

This Certificate in Global Youth Work has been designed by YMCA George Williams College with Y Care International to take youth and community practitioners on a journey to bring a global dimension to their practice with young people. For further information see leaflet in document section or contact Kevin Robinson, the programme administrator on 0207540 4909, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Kate Reed, the programme organsiser on 0207 540 4913, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Raising awareness of sexual exploitation with young people

In response to demand, we are pleased to announce eight new dates for our "Train the trainer" one-day course for professionals working directly with children and young people. The course is targeted at PSHE teachers, Youth Workers, YOT's, Sexual Health Teams, School Nurses and CSE Project Workers with a direct role in helping young people to develop an awareness of safe and healthy sexual relationships.

The new dates are:

· Derby/Nottingham 10th January

· Walsall 24^th January

· Bradford 31st January

· Swindon 8th February

· Liverpool 21st February

· Manchester 28th February

· London 6th March

· Newcastle 13th March

The aims of the course are to:

· Explore the issue of child sexual exploitation (CSE)

· Introduce a framework for raising young people's awareness of CSE

· Become familiar with relevant resources and how to use them in group work with young people

· Identify good practice on how to respond to concerns

The course uses the UKHTC's excellent DVD and resource pack "My Dangerous Loverboy" together with other complementary resources developed from the work of Safe and Sound in Derby and other similar projects around the UK.

Package includes one day training event with lunch, one copy of “My Dangerous Loverboy” with resource pack and other complementary handouts.

Price per delegate: £175+VAT. Group booking offer – five places for price of four. 10% discount for Registered Charities and Social Enterprises.

For more information, and/or to book your place, please visit our website at www.justwhistle.org.uk

De Montfort University - YOUTH & COMMUNITY SHORT COURSES

At De Montfort University (DMU) our Youth and Community Development Division have over 50 years’ experience in developing short and bespoke courses to support youth workers in the public and voluntary sector.

Parenting Positively - Working with Young People and their Families

This course aims to support practitioners in working with young people and families where relationships between them may have broken down or there is evidence of conflict. This will be delivered to groups of practitioners at De Montfort University at a time that suits your organisation.

T: (0116) 257 7732

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W: http://dmu.ac.uk/shortcourses

CHARLESHARRISON TRAINING COURSES

‘Accredit’ where ‘Accredit’ is due’ This course will up skill participants and enable them to meet accredited outcomes, recognise learning opportunities within their own practice and accredit young people’s achievement.

Autumn/Winter training prospectus

Find out more: www.charlesharrisonassociates.co.uk

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