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Dementia Awareness Workshop

VAC 8-12 Camden High Street, London, United Kingdom

If you're becoming increasingly forgetful and memory loss is affecting your daily life, our easy-to-understand dementia awareness workshop might provide some answers. This one-hour interactive session will give you an opportunity to learn more out about dementia and how you can support a friend or a loved one living with the condition.

Budgeting and Financial Planning

VAC 8-12 Camden High Street, London, United Kingdom

This training uses practical exercises to focus on your organisation financial needs and gives learners the understanding of budgeting essentials.

Introduction to Safer recruitment for non-education and voluntary settings.

Are you responsibility for hiring or supervising new staff members or volunteers in your organisation or community group?

It is essential that all those with recruitment responsibilities understand how to keep children and young people safe, if you are delivering services to under 18’s in Camden.

This introductory Safer Recruitment session will help organisations think about what current policies they have in place, and how to do things better.

As well as help those responsible for recruitment, to assess if applicants share the same child protective attitudes and values that you do.

Face to Face: Introduction to Safeguarding: Protecting Children in the Community.

Safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility, regardless of your job role, how frequently you work with children, or how often you interact with young people and their families.

If you work, support or volunteer for an organisations or group delivering services to children, young people or their families in Camden; you have a vital part to play in keeping them safe.

This face-to-face session provides learners with essential knowledge and skills needed to effectively safeguarding children and young people.

Designed for volunteers, new starters and those with no previous safeguarding training; this course introduces the four types of abuse, how to recognise the signs, and what to do if you see or hear something that isn’t right.

Face-to face: Introduction to Safeguarding Adults.

Protecting an adult's right to live in safety, free from abuse, neglect, or exploitation is just as important as protecting the rights of children.

This introductory session aims to give learners an introduction to adult safeguarding, with a focus on preventing abuse and ensuring safety and well-being.

Using group discussions and real-life case studies, Helen Onslow; a Lead Practitioner in Camden’s Adult Social Care team will cover all safeguarding essentials.

Face-to face: Managing Your Finances

At the end of the session learners will gain an understanding of:

Managing money and Value for Money
Legal mismanagement and public funds.
Keeping accurate financial records.
Budgeting & cashflow
Monitoring costs (briefly)

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