Events

Autism NI's Impact Award for Sports and Youth settings provides expert autism training and follow up support to your team. Receive step by step support to implement practical strategies to support autistic and neurodivergent members. Achieve the Impact Award and demonstrate your winning approach to inclusion.

By completing this qualification, learners will meet industry requirements to support exercise and physical activity for healthy and non-complicated antenatal and postnatal clients, as set out within the CIMSPA professional standard. The purpose of this qualification is to enable learners to develop the knowledge to support exercise, physical activity, health and wellbeing during the perinatal period (pregnancy and postnatal). This includes when and how to signpost to other services, where necessary.

We are thrilled to announce the Digital Skills Academy Programme, delivered in collaboration with Advice NI! This fully funded initiative is designed to empower and upskill your team with IT skills, including AI integration and cyber security, boosting your organisation’s productivity and digital confidence.

This full day, in person course will help you to understand the main elements of a structured teaching approach and how you can successfully implement these in a person centred and neuro-inclusive way for autistic children or adults.

This course focuses on leadership skills required by a registered Manager in team managements, standards for establishing good practice and conflict resolution.

We warmly invite community groups, local authorities, businesses, third sector organisations and academics to join these virtual sandpits as an opportunity to find out more about the MACC Flexible Fund, connect with potential partners and explore ideas for collaborative projects.

This course explores the key issues from a human rights perspective and highlights key concepts, practice, standards and research relating to use of restrictive practices.

Whether you or someone you know has recently been made redundant, is in a full time caring role, on a career break, unemployed or working up to 16 hours take time to invest in yourself and have a career that fits for you.

This half day course will enable participants to understand the value of Independent Advocacy to individuals and our wider society and equip learners with key concepts such as

The Adult Safeguarding Champion role combines responsibility for strategy, operations and oversight for an organisation in relation to adults at risk of harm under “Adult Safeguarding: Prevention and Protection in Partnership” (2015) and the “Adult Safeguarding Operational Procedures” (2016). Some organisations will also have Appointed Persons, with delegated responsibility for day to day adult safeguarding operations. This is a full day’s training for Adult Safeguarding Champions and Appointed Persons to support them in their role.

This course has been designed for anyone who would like to gain a better understanding of law governing Data Protection in UK, particularly in Advice work setting.

Leading & managing volunteers can be very fulfilling, but it also comes with some notable challenges. Even the best planned volunteering projects can struggle to attract and retain volunteers for the long term, leading to the need for repeated rounds of recruitment and the potential for burn-out in those volunteers who do remain.

Unlock the secrets to smarter, faster, stress-free business and marketing with AI – your ultimate shortcut to success.

Discover what editors and broadcasters are really looking for – and how to get your story heard.

This full day intensive course will build on existing or recently trained Advisers' knowledge and understanding of Universal Credit at a higher level or serve to refresh those who have been working with UC on some of the more complex aspects of the benefit.

Keeping Adults Safe: Adult Safeguarding Champion and Appointed Person Refresher Training: The Adult Safeguarding Champion role combines responsibility for strategy, operations and oversight for an organisation in relation to adults at risk of harm under “Adult Safeguarding: Prevention and Protection in Partnership” (2015) and the “Adult Safeguarding Operational Procedures” (2016). Some organisations will also have Appointed Persons, with delegated responsibility for day to day adult safeguarding operations.

This is a half day’s refresher training for Designated Officers who have already attended a full day’s training. It covers: The role and responsibilities of the Designated Officer Health and Social Care Trusts structures and processes Issues and experiences around referrals and sharing information Recent developments in safeguarding children and young people.

This 90-minute nutshell course will refresh, inform and update learners on Universal Credit’s treatment of overpayments and debt collection with a focus on the following:

Do you know the legal difference between a volunteer and an employee, or the difference between a volunteer agreement and a contract of employment? Are you aware of the legal obligations to protect your volunteers’ health & Safety or the laws that govern how and when you need to request enhanced Access NI for volunteers? In this session, we will explore the differences between volunteers and employees, the laws that can impact volunteering work, and much more, including legal boundaries, and we will clarify best practice when involving volunteers.

This session will show Advisers how to locate and utilise key Regulations, Decision Making Guidance and Case law to better assert client rights, challenge decisions and navigate problems with the Social Security System.

This 90-minute nutshell course will refresh, inform and update learners on Universal Credit’s treatment of Full Time Students including;

Thinking about returning to work? Our Reignite your Career Programme is back!

Information session on financial support available to working parents including the NICSS extension to school age children.

This half day, online course will build your understanding and confidence to support autistic adults who have a co-occuring learning disability.

Understand the main features associated with autism and explore various strategies to support autistic people. The course will explore the key characteristics including communication, social interaction, repetitive behaviours and sensory differences. The course is delivered on Zoom, and includes group discussion, interactive activities and question/answer sessions, so you can get the support you need and maximise your learning.