Leadership

In this free online seminar for Safeguarding Adults Week, the DBS will explore DBS checks, regulated activity, legal referral duties and information sharing to support safer recruitment.

Join Ann Craft Trust for this free seminar with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), the UK government agency responsible for helping employers make safer recruitment decisions and preventing unsuitable individuals from working with children and adults.

In this free online seminar for Safeguarding Adults Week, Dementia Carers Count will share the latest findings from their 2026 survey and explore how professional curiosity can improve support and outcomes for carers.

Dementia Carers Count is a UK charity providing information, advice, and support to thousands of dementia carers every year. They provide online information, a telephone support line, and they run frequent online support groups country.

This free online seminar for Safeguarding Adults Week will explore how we can move beyond assumptions about what people with learning disabilities want for their future, and instead create opportunities for genuine choice, voice, and control.

Through the Where I Want to Live Toolkit, participants will discover an innovative, co-produced digital resource designed to help people with learning disabilities explore, discuss and express their wishes about where and how they live as adults.

NPC’s Systems Change Community of Practice is a space for people interested in systems change to connect, learn from one another and explore what systems thinking means for their organisations, work and practice. It builds on NPC’s wider systems practice work and is intended to help people share experiences, challenges and learning from their own systems change journeys, while developing their practice alongside peers.

Guest Speaker: Stacey Copeland Former professional boxer and footballer, freelance broadcaster, presenter and commentator.

Plus a Panel of inspiring women representing QBC’s members, trustees, partners and supporters. 

Open to all Queen Bee Coaching members and women who live, work or study in Greater Manchester.

Join Acas for their free webinar on reasonable adjustments: how to get them right, where they will explore the law and good practice on how to implement reasonable adjustments in the workplace. 

This webinar will provide an overview of: 

• The legal obligations surrounding reasonable adjustments 

• How to overcome challenges with practical solutions 

• Different types of reasonable adjustments 

• And strategies to foster an inclusive workplace

185.6 million working days were lost in the UK due to sickness or injury in 2022, costing over £100bn annually. Supporting your staff and effectively managing sickness and the return-to-work process, could help to reduce sickness absences in your workplace. 

Join Acas on this free webinar about managing sickness absence successfully where they will cover: 

- Different types of absences 

- Supporting your staff at work to reduce absences 

- How to support staff during absence 

Workplaces can have an impact on our mental health as we spend roughly a 1/3 of our life at work. The way in which we address mental health in the workplace will determine whether that impact is positive or negative. 

In this webinar Acas explore how employers can positively support mental health and wellbeing in the workplace. It will cover: 

• An introduction to mental health and relevant legislation 

• The Acas framework for positive mental health 

• Supporting mental health in practice 

• Case study examples

It’s estimated that around 15% of the UK population is neurodivergent. Understanding neurodiversity and taking steps to better support it in workplaces can benefit both employers and employees. This webinar is for employers wanting to learn more about neurodiversity. 

This free to attend event covers: 

· supporting and managing neurodivergent staff 

· reasonable adjustments 

· making your recruitment process more accessible 

· creating an inclusive environment

Effective boards require more than technical expertise. They rely on the right mix of skills, behaviours, perspectives and participation to make sound decisions and fulfil their responsibilities.

This flagship Trustee Week webinar will explore the findings of CGIUKI's Modern Trustee research and consider what organisations can do to build stronger, more inclusive and more effective boards.