JustUs advocates for people when they’re homeless to access the statutory support they are eligible for.
They currently offer training via Zoom on Homelessness Law aimed at new and experienced front line workers and volunteers as well as managers of services that regularly have contact with homeless people. The course provides:
- An awareness and basic understanding of Homelessness Legislation.
- An understanding of the legal definitions of homelessness, priority need, intentional homelessness and local connection.
- The information needed to know when a homeless application is appropriate.
- A practical understanding of how to help someone make a strong application for housing assistance.
- An awareness of other statutory help relevant to homeless people.
Please see their website for details of how to book: http://www.justus.org.uk/
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:
- North East – Tuesday 30 June 2020
- West Midlands – Tuesday 14 July 2020
- Wales – Tuesday 28 July 2020
- South West – Tuesday 4 August 2020
- East – Tuesday 18 August 2020
- London – Tuesday 25 August 2020
- East Midlands – Tuesday 1 September 2020
More dates will be added later.
On 25 and 26 June 2020 the House of Commons Library is offering a series of sessions which are aimed at helping Members’ staff deal with casework arising from the coronavirus pandemic. The sessions will also be of wider interest to Members’ staff interested in policy development.
The sessions will be provided online via MS Teams and will be recorded, so if you miss one you can listen later.
The cut-off date for signing up is Midnight on 22 June 2020.
You must have a Parliamentary network account to access this. See here for more details: https://parliament.learningpool.com/course/view.php?id=1735
Policy in Practice are presenting a free online webinar: Recap of the major benefits changes and Coronavirus (COVID-19)
10:30 – 11:30, Wednesday 8 April 2020
Registration required: http://policyinpractice.co.uk/events/
As new measures to control Coronavirus (COVID-19) are introduced Policy in Practice’s Head of Policy, Zoe Charlesworth, summarises the major changes to the welfare system that have been made.
Zoe will also share new analysis we’ve done to show the impact of the new measures and how they will help households hit by Coronavirus (COVID-19).
Join this webinar to learn:
- What benefits people in different situations might get
- How to get the most support for families and households
- What the impact of the 3 main changes mean for households
Policy in Practice are hosting a webinar on Coronavirus and tackling vulnerability.
Thursday 26 March from 10:30 to 11:30.
Please visit their website for full details and to register: http://policyinpractice.co.uk/events/
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:
- Managing Suicidal Conversations
- Advice and Effective Casework Interviewing Skills
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 |
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“New essential training coming for all Members and Members’ staff which will be Mandatory each year – Please help us test it before launch”.
The new content replaces the existing need for the individual courses and instead wraps all essential training into one package.
We are looking for you to test whether this module is ‘user friendly’ ‘easy to complete’ and ‘and achievable from a time perspective’
Your feedback is really important – your assistance will mean that when we launch, you will already be compliant for the year ahead.
We are planning to test on 4-6 June and 10 June.
Contact [email protected] or call 020 7219 5144 to sign up.”
Westminster Professionals
Training, networking and support for those in and around Westminster
- Training delivered by political professionals who understand your daily challenges
- Networking opportunities across Parliament – strengthening your connections, giving you new ideas and enhancing your career prospects.
- Support for you and your office with individualised training, advice and services
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:
https://parliament.learningpool.com/course/view.php?id=429
This course will cover the elements which make up a compelling speech, focusing on structure and the ability to tailor to the best abilities of the speaker and understanding the needs of the audience.
For full details and dates, please click here:
https://parliament.learningpool.com/course/view.php?id=554
