All MP Staff Q&A Session – Creating a safe workplace for Members’ staff – guidance on bullying, harassment and sexual misconduct
10:00 – 10:45 – Thursday 10 June 2021
Open to all of the staff of MPs. For further information and booking, please see https://parliament.learningpool.com/mod/facetoface/view.php?id=4492
This session, aimed at MPs and their HR proxies, is run by the Members’ HR Advice Service to supplement the Best Practice Guide to Office Restructures.
The session will provide information about how to manage restructuring the office when you are considering reorganising your staffing resources to respond to changing priorities. It will cover employer responsibilities and provide practical advice about the best practice approach to managing the restructure process effectively. This will help you to ensure staff are treated fairly, properly consulted, and supported.
More information about the support available from the Members’ HR Advice Service will also be provided
See here for further information and booking:
17 June 2021 – 10:00 – 10:45 – https://parliament.learningpool.com/mod/facetoface/view.php?id=4438
1 July 2021 – 10:00 – 10:45 – https://parliament.learningpool.com/mod/facetoface/view.php?id=4439
Please note that links to the old Parliamentary intranet have been removed as of October 2023. Please use search on ParliNet to find relevant current details, if available.
https://parlinet.parliament.uk/house-of-commons-members-staff/
Members’ staff are invited to learn more about the Vote Office and the services we offer to support their work.
Friday 11 Jun 2021, 11:00 – 11:40 on MS Teams
Booking essential. For full details please see here
The Registrar of Members’ Financial Interests runs workshops for Members and their staff on the following subjects together with the next available dates.
‘Openness and Registering Members’ Financial Interests’, covering:
Thursday 3 June 2021 at 2pm
Thursday 17 June 2021 at 2pm
Thursday 1 July 2021 at 2pm
‘How to Support an All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG)’, covering:
Thursday 3 June 2021 at 11am
Thursday 17 June 2021 at 12.30pm
Thursday 1 July 2021 at 11am
Booking required. Please contact [email protected] to book a place.
The Registrar of Members’ Financial Interests runs workshops for Members and their staff on the following subjects together with the next available dates.
‘Openness and Registering Members’ Financial Interests’, covering:
Thursday 3 June 2021 at 2pm
Thursday 17 June 2021 at 2pm
Thursday 1 July 2021 at 2pm
‘How to Support an All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG)’, covering:
Thursday 3 June 2021 at 11am
Thursday 17 June 2021 at 12.30pm
Thursday 1 July 2021 at 11am
Booking required. Please contact [email protected] to book a place.
There are still a few places available for the Member’s Staff Induction session on 27 May 2021.
If you have any new starters who have not yet signed up the course, please ask them to sign up here: Member’s staff induction
The details of the session are s follows.
Part 1: Induction (9.30-12.30)
Part 2: Valuing Everyone – Tackling bullying and harassment and sexual misconduct workshops (13.30-16.30)
As it is not currently possible to present training courses in a traditional face-to-face classroom setting, the Learning and Development Team have made some courses available online in a virtual classroom.
You can view details of the available courses here: https://parliament.learningpool.com/course/view.php?id=1590
Titles available include:
The extremely popular regional roadshows were suspended because of COVID-19. However, worry not, for the Customer Team has taken them online instead.
Rather than full day events, they have been broken down into 90-minute sessions, giving you a chance to learn about the range of services available, to influence future service provision and to share experience and knowledge with other staff working in your Region.
For full details, please go to the intranet page here: https://intranet.parliament.uk/business-news/news-current-issues/events/regional-constituency-events/
The current schedule is:
More dates will be added later.
Here is the current list of training courses from the Parliamentary Learning & Development Team that staff can sign up for.
Courses are free of charge to all Members’ staff who are paid through IPSA’s staffing allowance and travel costs to training events can be met from the expenses scheme administered by IPSA.
There are two new courses:
Full details can be found in the training section of the Parliamentary Intranet.
The full course catalogue is available via Act – the Parliamentary learning management system.
| Course | Date | Region |
|---|---|---|
| Supervisory Management Course | 24.01.20 | Westminster |
| Conversations with Vulnerable People | 29.01.20 | Newcastle |
| Managing Suicidal Conversations - NEW COURSE | 29.01.20 | Westminster |
| Writing a Brief | 30.01.20 | Westminster |
| Role of the Office Manager Programme (CMI endorsed) | 31.01.20 | Westminster |
| - 3 day course - you must be able to attend all 3 days | 21.02.20 | |
| 27.03.20 | ||
| Essential Writing Skills for Members' staff | 04.02.20 | Westminster |
| Introduction to Welfare Benefits | 05.02.20 | Westminster |
| Conversations with Vulnerable People | 06.02.20 | Exeter |
| Personal Independence Payment (PIP) | 06.02.20 | Edinburgh |
| Speech Writing | 06.02.20 | Westminster |
| Essential Writing Skills for Members' staff | 07.02.20 | Manchester |
| Asylum and International Protection | 12.02.20 | Westminster |
| Media Handling and Social Media | 13.02.20 | Westminster |
| Universal Credit Overview | 13.02.20 | Westminster |
| Taking Control of Your Time & Speed Reading | 18.02.20 | Westminster |
| Advice and Effective Casework Interviewing Skills - NEW COURSE | 19.02.20 | Westminster |
| Personal Independence Payment (PIP) | 20.02.20 | Westminster |
| Essential Writing Skills for Members' staff | 21.02.20 | Cardiff |
| Members' Staff Induction | 24.02.20 | Westminster |
| Managing Suicidal Conversations - NEW COURSE | 25.02.20 | Westminster |
| Immigration Law | 26.02.20 | Edinburgh |
| Introduction to Welfare Benefits | 27.02.20 | Glasgow |
| Speech Writing | 27.02.20 | Westminster |
| Personal Independence Payment (PIP) | 04.03.20 | Birmingham |
| Writing a Brief | 04.03.20 | Westminster |
| Conversations with Vulnerable People | 05.03.20 | Westminster |
| Immigration Law | 09.03.20 | Cardiff |
| Advice and Effective Casework Interviewing Skills - NEW COURSE | 10.03.20 | Westminster |
| Universal Credit Overview | 10.03.20 | Leeds |
| Taking Control of Your Time & Speed Reading | 12.03.20 | Manchester |
| Media Handling and Social Media | 17.03.20 | Exeter |
| Immigration Law | 18.03.20 | Leeds |
| Asylum and International Protection | 19.03.20 | Manchester |
| Taking Control of Your Time & Speed Reading | 19.03.20 | Edinburgh |
| Immigration Law | 23.03.20 | Birmingham |
| Members' Staff Induction | 26.03.20 | Westminster |
| Universal Credit Overview | 26.03.20 | Glasgow |
| Immigration Law | 27.03.20 | Westminster |
The course will cover the principles of good written communication and how to put them into practice. It will look at some essentials about the use of language, grammar, tone and writing style and will include an introduction to the ‘Plain English’ approach to business writing.
For full details and dates, please click here: