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  • Filled with lots of guidance and practical tips, our short course has been designed to help managers support the health and wellbeing of their remote team. The Coronavirus pandemic has seen a massive change in working, with businesses across the world having to quickly adapt to remote working, so now more than ever we must look after our employee’s health and wellbeing. Remote working presents some challenges to people’s health and wellbeing and managers can feel uncertain of the best ways of supporting and helping.
  • This tenancy training course looks to educate first time tenants by exploring need to know topics such as how to find accommodation, managing finances, debt and budgeting, tenancy agreements and setting up basic utilities. Learners will be provided with the information they need to avoid anti-social behaviour and how to be a good neighbour. Additional information within the course include the basics of finding and viewing a property and the practicalities of running a new home - including paying rent, opening a bank account and getting advice on the services and support available.
  • Providing a professional tenancy management service is an essential requirement for all Registered Providers of social housing. To manage social housing tenancies effectively, you are required to have a basic knowledge of the law and regulations. Registered Social Housing Providers will develop policies and procedures to ensure they achieve the aims of the regulatory standards and comply with the legislation surrounding social housing tenancies at all times. When you have completed this online course, you will have an understanding of the following topics in the context of basic tenancy management for a Registered Social Housing Provider.
  • The Consumer Rights Act 2015 is a key piece of legislation within the retail industry and is something that all vendors need to have an awareness off. This course provides traders with jargon-free, step by step guidance to the Consumer Rights Act 2015 which outlines a single set of rights for consumers when they buy goods, digital content or services and clarifies the current legal framework. The course looks at the law and how it affected contracts that were entered into from 1st October 2015 to identify where the changes occurred and how they shaped the current retail market.
  • This course is aimed at those involved in the handling of people’s information as part of their day to day role. This Course will provide a Data Protection (GDPR) overview for those looking to gain more information on how to uphold the 6 principles. With this course learners will understand the key principles and process under the regulation and what their roles and responsibilities include. In its early days, data protection compliance quickly became a key priority for businesses, as the risk of large financial penalties for failing to introduce a culture of greater data transparency were introduced.
  • The Principles of Effective Income Management course will look at rent arrears and the importance of prevention and control. It also addresses the challenges facing social housing providers in ensuring that rent can be paid and tenancies sustained. On completion of this course you will have knowledge of the subjects outlined in the lesson plan below, in relation to income management for a social housing provider. Because the e-learning course is hosted on our platform you can re-visit the training at any point, even after it has been completed.
  • Managers play an important role in businesses, yet the role itself can be daunting. But one of the steps to overcome this feeling and become an effective manager is to truly understand the role of the manager. Did you know that managers account for at least 70% of the variance in team engagement and heavily influence employee wellbeing? The role of the manager is perhaps one of the most significant in the workplace.
  • This e-learning course has been designed to help learners improve their time management skills. In your day, do you find you are not as organised as you might like? Do you often feel under pressure and find you do not achieve everything you wanted to do? If so, you are not alone, the pace of day-to-day life has dramatically increased, and many people feel that there are simply not enough hours in the day. As a result, this time management training course has been designed to help learners improve their time management skills.
  • This Trading Fairly course has been created with the trade industry in mind and will provide the relevant information to ensure a fair trade. By completing this course you will be meeting your legal obligation of the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008, and minimising the risk of bad publicity or lawsuits.
  • Do you truly know what Unconscious Bias is, the different types there are and how they impact on your working environment? Discover how to recognise prejudgements in yourself and others and how to be confident in overcoming them. Our 30-minute implicit bias training course explores this important subject, imparting valuable insights which will increase any employee’s confidence in the topic. This course uses various interactions to make the learning interesting and engages you with the content.
  • This e-learning module aims to provide learners with an increased understanding of the autistic spectrum and offer strategies to support those on it. On completion, learners will have an increased awareness of the main characteristics of behaviour which individuals on the autism spectrum can commonly display, as well as an increased understanding of the sensory differences of people on the autistic spectrum. Our Understand How to Support Individuals with Autism Spectrum Conditions training course has been updated with help from subject matter experts to include more information on autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and to cover the Oliver McGowan case.
  • This early help or early intervention involves supporting families when a problem first occurs and can be utilised at any point in a child's or young person's life. Early help can have massively positive impacts on a child's future development and is therefore crucial that anyone working with children, young people or their families understands the importance of early help. This wide-ranging CAF safeguarding course is designed to help all those working with children, adults and families who could benefit from Early Help.
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