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This is the Councils annual Business Continuity Management training briefing for Service Managers/ Team Leaders working in the council's Children, Adults & Health department. Business Continuity Management (BCM) is about identifying those parts of your service that you can’t afford to lose – such as People, Premises, Technology, Information, and suppliers/partners and planning how to maintain these, if an incident occurs. Any incident, large or small, whether it is natural, accidental or deliberate, can cause major disruption to your service. But if you plan ahead, rather than waiting for it to happen, you will be able to get back to business in the quickest possible time. Business Impact Analysis and Risk Assessment will enable you to better understand your service and build your service continuity capability. Business Impact Analysis (BIA) A BIA identifies and documents your key products and services; the critical activities required to deliver these; the impact that a disruption of these activities would have on your organisation; and the resources required to resume the activities. The Councils annual training briefing outlines: - The Councils business continuity arrangements - The structures used to manage business continuity events & associated plans. - Activation of the Councils & Departmental business continuity arrangements and - The role and composition of the Business Recovery Team & Senior Management Teams

This course is for all childminders, newly registered or experienced, who wish to explore and reflect on how they can ignite a child’s interest as they begin to read and write. “One in five 11 year olds in England cannot read well, rising to one in three among those from disadvantaged backgrounds.” Read On Get On (2015) How can we support all children to develop a love of books and why is it important in children so young? In today’s busy and increasingly technological world how do we ensure children have the opportunity to explore books and print both in our settings and at home? How do reading skills weave themselves throughout all areas of the EYFS? This practical session is designed to support childminders working with children aged 3 – 4. There will be opportunities to explore and share ideas, research and strategies to help you develop early reading skills both indoors and outdoors. “If we don’t learn to love books we don’t read. And if we don’t read widely, we don’t think deeply.” Michael Rosen

This is a one day course for participants to develop the skills necessary to provide emergency first aid to someone who has an accident or suddenly becomes ill at work. Participants will be trained and assessed during the course in order to receive a certificate. Please note - you will be required to complete 3 practical assessments and a multiple choice test. You need to bring Photo ID eg passport, driving licence. If these are not available please bring your Work ID with photo If you require assistance with reading/writing please let the use know prior to the start of the course.

Please note you have to do this training programme in order. South Gloucestershire Council has launched a new interactive training programme that gives Health and Social Care Workers the skills, knowledge, confidence and practice to apply and comply with the Mental Capacity Act 2005. The programme is made up of interactive learning workshops. The new skills and knowledge gained from the workshops are then applied in the workplace and you will send us evidence. You'll be given feedback as you acheive the required good practice and compliance standard of the Mental Capacity Act 2005. The programme is designed for Care Provider managers, Social Worker and Occupational Therapy staff and managers, nurses and all other professionals working in health and social care. You can select from a series of modules as relevant to your job which are listed below. How the programme works You attend a module workshop You then submit evidence of what you have learned in the workplace (usually within six weeks) You receive feedback which may be shared with your employer. Once you have achieved the required standard for compliance and good practice in line with the MCA code of practice you will be awarded a certificate for that module. Continuing Professional Development This programme can be used by Social Workers as a basis for Accredited Learning under the South Gloucestershire Council/ University of the West of England Integrated Professional Development Programme The standard charge for this course is £35. Please refer to our Course Charges on the Home page for information on discounts and exemptions.

The multi-agency South Gloucestershire Safeguarding Adults Board oversees the Joint Policy and Procedures for Safeguarding Adults in this area. It is essential that a wide range of staff working in local authority, health and social care agencies are fully aware of the key issues in safeguarding vulnerable adults and of how the policy affects them in their front-line roles. The half-day ALERTER course is essential training for all front-line staff and managers who are involved in providing services to safeguard vulnerable adults and work directly with service users . The course content is closely linked to relevant Competencies in the local South Glos Safeguarding Adults Competency Framework. Course attendance is monitored by the Safeguarding Adults Board. For half-day courses – The standard charge for this course is £35. Please refer to our Course Charges on the Home page for information on discounts and exemptions. For full-day courses – The standard charge for this course is £70 per day. Please refer to our Course Charges on the Home page for information on discounts and exemptions.

This masterclass will explore “CRAFT – a safety focussed approach to assessment and practice when working with children and families experiencing domestic abuse”. CRAFT will be introduced in a highly interactive and thought provoking way, offering an opportunity to critically reflect and develop practice when working with domestic abuse across South Gloucestershire. The session will use a range of methods to achieve the aims and objectives including forms of multi media and the use of ‘live actors’ to create scenarios based on real life experiences. Following the session there will be an opportunity to become part of a group of practitioners involved in the ‘CRAFT’ research study being led by the session facilitator, Jodie Das. More information will be given on the day about this exciting opportunity.

This is a 2nd masterclass led by Jenny Molloy, which explores myths and assumptions surrounding child sexual exploitation. Being a victim of child sexual exploitation herself, she draws on personal experience, policy and practice and the use of Serious Case Reviews. This event is aimed at all professionals who come into contact with young people, including managers who have responsibility for supervision, policy and decision-making.

This course will explore what interventions are needed in order to properly engage boys and young men in RSE. It will analyse both what should be done, but also how education needs to be structured in order to prove appealing. An exploration of gender and identity forms the foundation of the course. Participants will get to use and evaluate a number of practical resources and learning exercises that have been shown to fit well with the learning needs of young men