Kinds of courses we offer
These are some of the courses we offer. Please contact John Vincent to discuss tailoring these to meet your specific requirements or for details of other courses.
There are reduced rates for Network members (and also for repeat courses).
- Tackling social exclusion - which can be a day or a half-day course (the day course gives an opportunity for exploring this in more depth, and for applying principles to the local service)
- Children's library services for social inclusion - a day course, run with Anne Harding
- Developing socially inclusive services for children and young people: a course for museum, heritage, library and archive staff, run with Anne Harding
- Community Engagement - an introductory one-day course, run with Cathy Herman
- Community Engagement - Partnerships - a one-day course
- Community Engagement – Evaluation – a one-day course, run with Cathy Herman, which looks at good practice in evaluating community engagement work
- An introduction to community cohesion - a one-day course
- Meeting the needs of LGBTs - a half-day course, designed particularly for those who have little experience of this area of work
- Developing services for LGBTs – a one-day course, drawing on local good practice examples, to develop provision for LGBTs
- Supporting looked-after children and young people - a one-day course, run with Anne Harding
- Developing services for looked-after children and young people: a course for museum, heritage, library and archive staff, run with Anne Harding
- Working with older people - a one-day course
- New arrivals – a one-day course, run with Bill Bolloten, looking at developing services for refugees, migrant workers and other ‘new arrivals’.