training

See the attached information flyer for a series of workshops taking place over the next 12 months provided by Participation Works, a national consortium of participation organisations. These workshops are designed to provide information and a tool organisations can use to map and plan the active involvement of children and young people. Places are primarily for colleagues working in organisations in the Third Sector, and are free for them.

It is the long term aim of Participation Works to facilitate and enable Third Sector organisations to be involved in Children's Trusts. The workshops and follow up support through the Local Learning Networks will attempt to develop a common approach to participation and so encourage links.

Apprenticeships in Youth work - a free focus group event sharing experience and review of the youth work apprenticeship programme in England, 22nd May 2007 11.00 - 3.30pm at The National Youth Agency, Leicester

This is a joint event from the National Council for Voluntary Youth Services and the National Youth Agency, which will be of interest to existing training providers delivering the youth work apprenticeship programme, employers who recruit apprentices and national bodies such as the DfES, LLUK and LSC.

Have a look at Youth Clubs Hampshire and IoW's excellent programme of training - available to all at a very reasonable cost. Brochure here

Background
The development of the Common Assessment Framework (CAF) can be traced back to The Victoria Climbie Inquiry (The Laming Report), which made a number of recommendations to Government in order to improve protection for children.

The recommendations included the need for Local Authorities to:

"Establish reliable ways of assessing the needs and circumstances of children in their area..."

The CAF has been developed for use by practitioners in all organisations so that they can communicate and work more effectively together.

Free training programme for voluntary organisations supported by ChangeUp...

Hampshire Voluntary and Community Sector Consortium, the body responsible for implementing the year Infrastructure Development Plan has organised free programme of training and development programme for staff and volunteers working in Voluntary and Community organisations based in Hampshire. The consortium will also contribute towards the expenses of course delegates. Follow the links for further details of courses and booking information:

Training for Tendering: an intensive 2 day programme for service providers delivered by ROCC, Southampton - places available for courses running on: 26 & 27 March 2007; 19 and 20 April 2007; 24 and 25 September 2007; 10 and 11 December 2007; and, 12 and 13 March 2008. Booking information here

There's a whole range of good and affordable training available from Youth Clubs Hants and IoW.

Click this link to see their latest brochure (pdf)

Information about some interesting looking traing courses has landed on my desk.

Organised by the Trust for the Study of Adolescence they cover

• building resiliance in young people,
• the effects of neglect and abuse, d
• eveloping positive self esteem in young people,
• the prevention of suicide and young people 
• self harm.

Details of these and other course may be otained from the Trusts web site - or by downloading the documents attached to this post.