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Bring our expertise to your door

Let Carers UK come to you and share our knowledge and expertise with your staff. Whether it is community care law, carers' assessments or mental capacity we have over 30 different courses drawing on good practice examples from our network of organisations working with carers.
Our training is cost effective when training groups of staff. It saves you the cost and your staff the inconvenience of travelling or staying overnight. Carers UK focuses on ensuring your staff get real benefits from our training that can be applied in their work. We will agree learning outcomes with you and look at how best the training can be evaluated.

Our courses

Choose one of our specialist courses from the list below or ask us to tailor any of our courses to match your specific needs, whether you are from a local authority, health or voluntary sectors.

 

Adult Social Care: The essential legal update

  Let our expertise help you where you are In the current climate of change policies and procedures cannot afford to be open to challenge.  Developed in response to the…
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Advocacy for carers: Introduction

Level: Standard If you are required to advocate on behalf of service users and carers as part of your job, this course will equip you with the knowledge and skills…
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Advocacy: Effective skills

  Advocacy: Effective skills This course is designed for those who currently use advocacy skills as part of their work and would like to develop their knowledge further. It will…
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Assessments: The legal framework

(***UPDATED ***) Level: Standard Trainer: Jean Gould CPD Points: 5 hours The assessment process is the gateway to community care and continuing care service provision and so it is important…
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Benefits for carers: Advanced

    Level: Intermediate Trainer: Krista Everington   This course looks at how breaks from careand the person being looked after going intohospital or residential care affect a carer’sbenefit entitlement.…
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Carer awareness for GP practice staff

Aims This specifically designed 3 hour seminar training will provide GP Practice staff with an understanding of carers issues, how to to identify and record carers, and how to support…
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Carers and their rights

  (UPDATED) Level: Standard Trainer: Simon Unsworth CPD points: 5 hours Recent years have seen major reforms of the law as it relates to carers. This course examines how that…
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Carers voices

Carers are often the real experts in the care they deliver. Best practice in health and social care policy emphasises the importance of involving carers in decision making and planning…
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Carers’ assessments - good-practice

Carers have a legal right to request an assessment, the gateway for carers to get the support they need and to assist in being involved in decisions about care. The…
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Community Care and carers’ rights in a climate of cuts

(NEW COURSE FOR 2011) Level: Standard/Intermediate Trainer: Jean Gould CPD points: 5 hours This course is designed particularly to meet the needs of voluntary sector advisors and legal aid solicitors…
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Community Care Law: Advanced

Level: Advanced Trainer: Jean Gould CPD points: 5 Hours This course is designed for participants already familiar with community care law. It covers more complex areas of law in this…
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