• Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards

    Swansea Swansea

    This Learning Disability Wales course will help you understand recent changes to the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) and the need to demonstrate that care arrangements are lawful and correctly authorised. Click here to see more information and to make an online booking. This course will enable staff to continue to follow the original intentions...

  • South Wales Tackling Poverty Regional Event

    Mercure Cardiff Holland House Hotel, 24-26 Newport Road, Cardiff CF24 0DD Mercure Cardiff Holland House Hotel, 24-26 Newport Road, Cardiff CF24 0DD

    The Minister for Communities and Tackling Poverty Lesley Griffiths AM, will be attending and speaking at the event. The event will focus on Early Years and Employability through the lens of mental wellbeing. It will be looking at how practitioners and front line staff can guide people in building resilience and developing coping mechanisms to...

  • Free training: Brief Intervention for Smoking Cessation

    National Cancer Collaboration Centre, Park House, Grey friars Road, Cardiff CF10 3AF National Cancer Collaboration Centre, Park House, Grey friars Road, Cardiff CF10 3AF

    Stop Smoking Wales is pleased to offer a free, half-day brief intervention training course.    What is brief intervention training for smoking cessation? Brief intervention is a method of discussing smoking and quitting in a positive, non-confrontational way to encourage smokers to think about giving up and enable them to access specialist support when they are...

  • Shared power in public services – 3-day course

    Civic Centre, Torfaen Civic Centre, Torfaen

    A Participation Cymru 3-day course accredited by Agored Cymru Funded places are available on this course for those working in the health and social care sector (Health boards, Social Services and other local authority departments and third sector organisations). Aim: Engage more effectively with your online audience. Content: If you're already using social media to...

  • Making Information Easy to Read and Understand Level

    Cardiff Cardiff

    This Learning Disability Wales training course will help you make information easier to read and understand for people with a learning disability. You will then be able to produce leaflets, letters, minutes from meetings, agendas, reports and posters. During the course you will get the chance to try out ideas with the new skills and...

  • Introduction to data protection and confidentiality

    Cardiff Cardiff

    The aim of this WCVA training course is to provide knowledge and understanding of data protection requirements, to ensure that organisations comply with the law and good practice.The Data Protection Act 1998 sets out a number of requirements that most organisations have a legal duty to comply with, including those working in the third sector....

  • Sexual Health Awareness and C-Card Training

    Cardiff Cardiff

    Cardiff YMCA's two-day training will cover:• Sexual Health Awareness• The C-Card Scheme• The Sexual Health Outreach Team If you wish to deliver the C-Card Scheme, which provides free, quick, easy and confidential access to condoms as well as advice and guidance on sexual health and relationships for young people aged 13-25 years old, please email SHOT@cardiffymca.co.uk...

  • Substance Misuse Awareness Training

    Meridian Court, North Road, Cardiff, CF14 3BE Meridian Court, North Road, Cardiff, CF14 3BE

      With a small additional charge, this 2-day NewLink Wales course can be accredited through Agored Cymru gaining 3 credits and level 3 on the Quality Assured Lifelong Learning Framework for Wales. NewLink Wales has been delivering substance misuse awareness training for over 13 years, all our trainers are experienced professionals who have worked in the...

  • Early Years & Health – what does good health mean for young children in Wales?

    Park Inn by Radisson, Cardiff City Centre Park Inn by Radisson, Cardiff City Centre

    Nothing is more important than our children's health and every child in Wales has the right to be healthy - so what needs to be in place to ensure that this is made a reality?  Children in Wales is hosting a conference to explore the many strands of work that challenge health practitioners and parents...

  • Alcohol Brief Interventions Training

    NewLink Wales, Meridian Court, North Road, Cardiff CF14 3BE NewLink Wales, Meridian Court, North Road, Cardiff CF14 3BE

      This FREE NewLink course aims to increase your confidence in raising the issue of alcohol use and motivating and supporting individuals to change their drinking behaviour through brief intervention. The course will increase your: Understanding of the scale of the alcohol problem in Wales and how brief interventions work Knowledge of how to use the...

  • Renting Homes – Are you ready?

    Cardiff Cardiff

    Do you know how the Renting Homes Bill will affect you? The biggest shake-up of tenancy law since the Housing Act 1988 will be implemented in Wales soon. This half-day Shelter Cymru briefing looks at what the Renting Homes Bill means for landlords and tenants and how the proposals have changed since scrutiny began, providing...

  • All Wales basic safeguarding awareness training

    Wales Council for Voluntary Action - Baltic House, Cardiff Bay Wales Council for Voluntary Action - Baltic House, Cardiff Bay

    The aim of this WCVA course is to convey a number of key principles in the safeguarding of individuals and to provide staff with the basic foundation knowledge about responding to abuse and neglect.This course has been developed by the Care Council for Wales, WCVA, and local authorities. It is a basic safeguarding awareness programme...