News and Information
Free Carer Training in Suffolk and Norfolk
January 2020
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Are you interested in free Carer training in Norfolk and Suffolk.
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Suffolk Independent Living and Equal Lives are working with Skills for Care and Surrey Independent Living Centre to provide free training on:
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Emergency First Aid at Work
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Adult and Child Safeguarding
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Managing behaviour and Autism Awareness
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Manual Handling
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Please call the office on 01473 603876, email suffolk@silmail.org or click on the picture for more information.
Disability Liaison Group
November 2018
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Are you a disabled person? Do you have a disabled child? Do you care for a disabled person?
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Suffolk Coalition of Disabled People (SCODP) are putting together a Disability Liaison Group to allow disabled people a chance to come together and discuss issues of importance. The first session will discuss Hate Crime.
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29th November 2018 at the Co-op Education Centre, 11 Fore Street, Ipswich, iP4 1JW
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Please complete the Booking form attached and return if needed.
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Testing Taxi Services in West Suffolk
October 2018
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SCODP are working with Forest Heath District Council and St Edmundsbury Borough Council to look at the provision of taxi services for disabled people.
They are looking for disabled and non-disabled people across West Suffolk to either book a taxi from home or to use a taxi from one of the taxi ranks. Volunteers can use the taxi at a time to suit them as long as they complete the project before the beginning of December 2018.
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SCODP will pay each volunteer a flat fee of £20.00 per person when SCODP have received their form.
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Please click on the picture to see the information about the opportunity.
Free Carer training in Ipswich
August 2018
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Equal Lives and Surrey Independent Living Centre are working with Skills for Care to offer training in the following fields in Ipswich:
- Emergency First Aid at Work on 25th September 2018 at The Coop Education Centre
- Good Boss Training on 27th September 2018 at The Coop Education Centre
- Person Centred Support.on 26th September 2018 at IP City Centre
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These sessions will be run in Ipswich. Please see the information below for the information regarding the Norwich Sessions
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Please click on each document to see the information.
Free Carer Training in Norwich
August 2018
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Equal Lives and Surrey Independent Living Centre are working with Skills for Care to offer training in the following fields:
- Adult and Child Safeguarding
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These sessions will be run in Norwich, but there will be some Ipswich training running at the same time.
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Please click on each document to see the information.
Free Bespoke Moving and Handling Training
July 2018
Employers must reduce the rick of injury to their staff by:
- Avoiding those manual handling tasks that could result in injury, where reasonably practicable.
- Assessing the risks from moving and handling that cannot be avoided.
- Putting measures in place to reduce the risk, where reasonably practicable.
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Equal Lives and Surrey Independent Living Centre are working with Skills for Care to offer two individual employers with the chance to have free training in their own home with their own equipment.
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Training is on a first come, first served basis.
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Click on the leaflet to see all the information.
FREE Care Certificate Training for Personal Assistants and Employers
August 2015
Skills for Care are funding some new training that provides a nationally accredited Care Certificate. It is brought to you by Equal Lives, Suffolk Independent Living and Suffolk Coalition of Disabled People. The training will be delivered by MRF Training and Consultancy.
It will cover lots of areas to do with being both an employer and an employee and you are invited to attend.
Please see the attached flyer for more information reagrding the locations of the training and how to register. It can be found here.
Suffolk Hate Crime - 3rd Party Reporting Centre
January 2015
We are a 3rd Party Reporting Centre for Suffolk Hate Crime.
You can report here any incident that you believe was motivated by race, religion/faith, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, age or gender.
For more information on the service, please visit their website at http://www.suffolkhatecrime.org.uk/
