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THIS TRAINING SESSION WILL BE DELIVERED VIA CISCO WEBEX - YOU WILL RECEIVE A MEETING INVITE SHORTLY BEFORE THE TRAINING COURSE.

This one-day, remotely-delivered, training course provides excellent foundation knowledge and awareness of how to manage contracts with external providers successfully in order to extract better value-for-money and deliver the desired commercial outcomes. Competence in this area is equally about how to manage intelligently, knowing when to consult with professional colleagues especially when undertaking complex processes such as contractual change, recognising the key drivers that will improve supplier performance and understanding the role and importance of robust contract governance.

The course is ideal for individuals who have accountability for managing third party service providers within the council (including budget holders, contract managers, relationship managers, service delivery managers and procurement practitioners), as well as those that are relatively new to the procurement function.

Please note there is £100 charge for all delegates to attend this course (invoiced to North Somerset and B&NES delegates, and recharged to departments for South Glos delegates).

This webinar aims to help organisations improve the service they deliver to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT+) young people. To explore good practice for working within a context of equality, diversity and inclusion.

This session will be discussion based and will use breakout rooms.

The course includes:

• An overview of key legislation relevant to sexual orientation and gender identity
• Research on the experiences of the LGBT+ community and barriers faced in accessing services
• Best practice guidelines to help your organisation improve service delivery to LGBT+ young people

 
This support group has been set up specifically for carers of teenagers, who may be struggling, or would like to better cope with some of the behaviours that their young people are showing. 


The group will be facilitated by Thinking Aloud and will aim to meet once every 6 weeks during term time. The programme will very much be determined by yourselves, as this series of support groups has been set up with you in mind to meet your current needs.



It would be helpful if you could email catherine.charlton@southglos.gov.uk  any particular issues that you would perhaps like covered in advance, as a more detailed programme could be drawn up ahead of the sessions, if we know what the issues are.

Kooth is an online platform where young people aged 11+ can access counselling, forums, resources, support and much more in a safe online environment www.kooth.com

This webinar will introduce you to the Kooth offer and campaigns with chance for questions.

The session delivers an overview of project management and introduces key principles and tools that support successful projects. Learners will also understand the importance of milestones, monitoring project performance and risk management.

Please note there is a charge of £80 to attend this course.

When faced with the challenging behaviours of a traumatised child we can become amongst other things, irritable, anxious, hopeless and overwhelmed. The intensity of the stress can make us feel inadequate, manipulated, exhausted and depressed. Gill Tree, founder of Adoption Academy is a master practitioner in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and provided stress management training for 22 years. She also founded and owned for 22 years, the UK’s largest school of massage. She was a respite foster carer for 2 years prior to adoption in 2011 and is now focusing on therapeutic touch and resilience programmes for adoptive parents and foster carers. Gill is a member of the International Stress Management Association. Writer for Adoption Today and Adoption UK Trainer.

This course follows on from the initial Building Resilience to Stress Less Course and offers a deeper dive into this area.
Participants will need to have completed the fisrt course before attending this course.

This training has been commissioned by South Gloucestershire Council’s LGBTQ+ staff equality group and is provided by Mermaids, who have been supporting transgender, nonbinary and gender-diverse children, young people, and their families since 1995.

Mermaids is one of the UK’s leading LGBTQ+ charities, empowering thousands of people with its secure online communities, local community groups, helpline services, web resources, events and residential weekends.

Mermaids seek to educate and inform wider society on gender identity by helping professionals accommodate and reassure gender-diverse young people.

As training spaces are limited to 15 places per course, we respectfully ask that only one representative per team or school for example, book a place. If demand is high we will explore options of putting on further training sessions.

This network meeting will be held virtually.

These 50 minute coaching sessions with coaches will assist council staff in coming up with strategies and action plans to maintain and build their wellbeing and resilience. Unlike counselling which provides a safe space to explore worries and concerns, these confidential coaching sessions will help staff come up with individual plans to help them build their resilience, understand what they can do to enhance their wellbeing and overcome current and future obstacles. There are activities and exercises that wellbeing coaches can also give people to work through in their own time if they would find it useful.

Please note these sessions will be delivered by skype or telephone.  Your coach will contact you to confirm the best method for you.