Types of training
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Domestic Abuse Awareness Raising Tool
This resource serves as an introduction to domestic abuse and coercive control.
Domestic Abuse Awareness Raising Tool - Daart.scot
Children in Scotland e-learning Hub
Free e-learning includes:
- Children's Rights eLearning
- An Introduction to Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC)
- The fostering Network eLearning
- Building Good Relationships with Children and Young People eLearning
Sign up or find out more - Children in Scotland
Scottish Drugs Forum Training
This training is free for people working and living in Scotland.
Signing up will allow you to access:
- overdose prevention, intervention and naloxone
- what's happening on the streets with benzos
- drug awareness- an introductory course
Sign up - Scottish Drug Forum Training
TURAS Training
Access health, wellbeing and social care tools or learning resources through Turas.
Signing up will allow you to access training including those listed below:
- Child Protection Practice Level 1
- Child Protection Practice Level 2
- Adult support and protection : practice level 1
- Adult support and protection : practice level 2
- Trauma Informed
- National Trauma Training Programme
- Gender-based Violence (GBV)
- Module 1: Understanding domestic abuse for health care professionals in Scotland
- Module 2: Understanding domestic abuse for health care professionals in Scotland
- Human trafficking
- Once for Scotland Adults with Incapacity (AWI) learning site
- Working with substance use, trauma and mental health-resources and training for the Scottish workforce
- NES Perinatal Infant Mental Health Training
You can also read Public Protection - Turas.
Iriss Training
Access a range of free training suitable for the social services workforce in Scotland.
Signing up will allow you to access training including:
- Large Scale Investigations
- Working together in adult support and protection
- Multi-Agency Adult Support and Protection Conferences (case conferences)
Open University
The Open University offers a range of free courses including for those in social work.
Signing up will allow you to access training including:
- Applying social work law with children and families
- Social work law and UK regulation
- Introducing social work: a starter kit
- An introduction to social work law
- Digital innovation in social care and social work
SSSC (Scottish Social Services Council) Open Badges
Open Badges are digital certificates recognising learning and achievement. If you can demonstrate that you've learned from materials produced by the Scottish Social Services Council, you can earn an Open Badge.
NHS Scotland OpenAthens account - The knowledge Network Scotland
Registering with the Knowledge Network gives you access to view full text journal articles and ebooks and use the research databases and evidence summary services.
This is for local authority staff in addition to social services working in partnership with health services (for example, through community health partnerships)
Articles from Iriss
Read:
- Trauma-informed approaches: a critical overview of what they offer to social work and social care
- The importance of workplace learning for social workers
- Addressing the trauma of human trafficking victims in the UK
- An overview of self-neglect
- Collaborative practice to support adults with complex needs
- Child protection in the 21st century: a role for contextual safeguarding
- Adult Support and Protection: everyone's business
NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children)
On the NSPCC website you can access:
- resources including their library catalogue
- their podcasts
Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland
The Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland publish publications such as:
- The right to advocacy 2023
- The views of people with lived experience on supported decision making