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MAES - Health and Social Care courses

Health and Social Care courses
Latest courses from Manchester Adult Education Service.

LEVEL 1 AWARD WORKING WITH ADULTS IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE.

This qualiﬁcation develops a basic knowledge of the adult social care sector. It covers the type of job roles and services within it, the role of communication and the importance of valuing the individuals being cared for.

LEVEL 2 CERTIFICATE SUPPORTING TEACHING AND LEARNING IN SCHOOLS Fast Track (20 Weeks)

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Children and Families

Manchester's school nursing service consultation for future commissioning.

Commissioning the School Nurse Service/ Schools Health Partnership

The school nursing service is a public health service for every child of school age. It aims to make sure children and their families receive a core programme of preventative health care and additional care if they need it.

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Children and Families

Policy and Influence

Our Space Your Place Grants

Our Space, Your Place offers organisations, community groups and charities across the region the opportunity to benefit from support in the form of funding or time, to improve their community.

The only condition is that the contribution should be used for something which will genuinely enhance or improve services, facilities or the environment within their local area.

Contributions are available from £100 to £1,000.

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Children and Families

The Golden Bottle Trust and the Bulldog Trust Funding – next deadline 14 Nov

The Golden Bottle Trust and the Bulldog Trust are seeking to make small to medium sized grants (£1,000 - £30,000 over a maximum of 3 years) to new and existing organisations to enable them to get closer to achieving their goals.

For many organisations looking to finance new projects, seeking funding can be extremely difficult and in some cases, impossible. Common problems include time consuming application processes, minimum grant levels being too high, the project not fitting into a specific funding category or the organisation not meeting the strict criteria often required.

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The National Prospectus Grants Programme 2015-16

Through the National Prospectus Grant Programme The Department for Education (DfE) want to help improve outcomes for children and young people (particularly those who are disadvantaged) and support for their families.

The DfE has identified seven policies themes it wishes to fund through this National Prospectus. Bids must be made specifically in support of one, or more, of the following seven policy themes below. A separate application is required for each theme.

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Living Wage Week 2014

Living Wage Week is a UK-wide celebration of the Living Wage and Living Wage Employers. The aim of the week is to raise awareness of the Living Wage and the Living Wage Employer Mark.

In 2014 Living Wage Week will take place on the 2-8 November.

The new UK and London Living Wage rates for 2014-15 will be announced on Monday 3 November. The UK Living Wage rate will be announced simultaneously in cities around the UK whilst the London rate will be announced by Mayor of London Boris Johnson.

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BBC Community Doorway scheme

The BBC’s Community Doorway programme is where charities and community organisations can apply to access the skills and expertise of BBC staff volunteers to help deliver a one-off project.

You may want support to create a short film to showcase the work of your charity, to set up a website, or even to produce a community event of your own.

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FUNDED Greater Manchester Training for care providers and volunteers

Knowledge only units in Learning Disability / Dementia / Mental Health / and Physical Disability, available to your staff

Acacia Training have just won a new contract for the Greater Manchester area via the European Social Care Fund to fund some free Mental Health, Physical Disability, Learning Disability and Dementia training to your staff and any volunteers based within this area.

Please see attached a list of the units that they can fund to employed staff who are working a minimum of 8 hours per week and if they are aged 19 years old or over!

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Health and Wellbeing

Neighbourhood Planning Workshop Grants available

There’s a new grant funding pool from (Department for Communities and Local Government) DCLG now available to encourage communities to take up neighbourhood planning.

Local groups can apply for grants of up to £2,000 to run a neighbourhood planning workshop in their community. The workshop must be run by knowledgeable and enthusiastic advocate of neighbourhood planning, with the aim of giving a community the information they need to begin the neighbourhood planning process.

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