Training

Gambling Harms Prevention Training for Staff Working with Young People

Overview:

• Definition of gambling and gambling harms
• The impact gambling has on the brain
• Why young people gamble
• The link between gaming and gambling
• The parasocial relationships between influencers and young people
• The warning signs
• Where to get support

Objectives:

• To develop an understanding of how and why young people gamble
• To be able to provide early intervention and know where to refer people for support
• To understand gambling related harms and its impact on society

14/07/2025, 10:00–11:00 (Virtual Training)

Bladder and Bowel Management

Objectives:

• Basic overview of bladder/bowel anatomy and physiology
• Te ageing bladder and bowel and associated physiological changes
• Types of incontinence
• Maintaining a healthy bladder and bowel
• Your role in managing continence
• Containment Products i.e. sheaths
• How to measure and fit incontinence pads correctly
• Catheter care

19/06/2025, 10:00–12:30, Ystwyth Room – Penmorfa, Aberaeron

19/06/2025, 13:30–16:00, Ystwyth Room – Penmorfa, Aberaeron

Catheter and Stoma Care Training

This training is for non-clinical social care staff working with adults or children (i.e. domiciliary care, residential care homes and support workers).

This course will cover:

• Theory behind placement, infection prevention and management of stomas
• Theory behind placement, infection prevention and management of catheters
• Practical workshops on the infection prevention care and dressing placement of stoma bags
• Practical workshops on changing catheter bags, placement of bags and infection prevention

11/07/2025, 10:00–12:30, Room 209 – Canolfan Rheidol, Aberystwyth

11/07/2025, 14:00–16:30, Room 209 – Canolfan Rheidol, Aberystwyth

Manual Handling Training

The courses will be held in the manual handling training suite at Penmorfa, Aberaeron, and will be delivered in line with the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) All Wales Manual Handling Passport Scheme (AWMHPS).

Training available:

2-day Manual Handling Passport Training

24/06/2025 & 25/06/2025, 09:15–16:00

09/07/2025 & 10/07/2025, 09:15–16:00

05/08/2025 & 06/08/2025, 09:15–16:00

02/09/2025 & 03/09/2025, 09:15–16:00

07/10/2025 & 08/10/2025, 09:15–16:00

Manual Handling Update Training

15/07/2025, 09:15–16:00

18/09/2025, 09:15–16:00

Releasing Time to Care Training 

13/08/2025, 09:15–16:00

16/10/2025, 09:15–16:00

Manual Handling Risk Assessments (The Essentials) Training

29/07/2025, 09:15–16:00

23/09/2025, 09:15–16:00

Inanimate Load Handling Training

22/07/2025, 09:15–12:30

30/09/2025, 09:15–12:30

Manual Handling Continuous Professional Development Workshops
Free for individuals who have completed the 2 day Manual Handling Passport with Ceredigion Council.

22/07/2025, 13:00–16:00

24/09/2025, 13:00–16:00

For more information about the courses, including the fees, please click here. Fees must be paid in advance to secure a place and are non-refundable.

Safeguarding Adults Group B

The session aims to expand on Safeguarding Group A eLearning for all staff working with adults with care and support needs that have a duty to safeguard them.

Objectives:

• Develop your understanding of Safeguarding and be able to describe how to work in ways that safeguard people from abuse, harm and neglect
• Develop an understanding of Person-Centred working
• Explain factors, situations and actions that could lead or contribute to abuse, harm and neglect
• Understand legislation, national policies, codes of conduct and professional practice in safeguarding
• Understand your legal responsibilities
• Know how to recognise and report different types of abuse, harm and neglect
• Know who to contact for advice and support

All Group B practitioners have regular contact with members of the public in their roles. This includes practitioners who are or aren’t registered or regulated and volunteers. Group B practitioners are those who spend time with people in a group setting or on a one-to-one basis. They will have a particular responsibility in relation to the people they work with and will need a higher level of knowledge than those in Group A because of their direct involvement with people. The people they work with may or may not have safeguarding concerns.

Please note that attendees will be required to refresh this training every 3 years. 

08/07/2025, 09:30–16:00 (Virtual Training)

Safeguarding Adults Group C for Senior Practitioners and Designated Persons

This course meets the National Minimum Safeguarding Standards.

Aimed at those who have direct responsibility for safeguarding people including organisation’s designated safeguarding person and people who take a more prominent role in safeguarding decisions, including those with an active role in core groups and protection planning activities who contribute to or are fully engaged in assessing, planning, intervening and reviewing the needs of people where there are safeguarding concerns.

This 2-day advanced level course aims to ensure participants are able to make decisions about keeping adults safe and know when they need to put protection processes in place.

Objectives:

• I understand that giving people voice and control is an essential part of decision making – person centred practice
• I understand everyone’s roles and responsibilities in the safeguarding process
• I have the ability to make clear and proportionate decisions

Please note that attendees will be required to refresh this training every 3 years. Completion of Group C training means you do not need to renew Group B training.

30/06/2025 & 01/07/2025, 09:30–16:30 (Virtual Training)

Safeguarding Children Group B

All Group B practitioners have regular contact with children and members of the public in their roles. This includes practitioners who are or aren’t registered or regulated and volunteers. Group B practitioners are those who spend time with people in a group setting or on a one-to-one basis. They will have a particular responsibility in relation to the people they work with and will need a higher level of knowledge than those in Group A because of their direct involvement with people. The people they work with may or may not have safeguarding concerns.

Objectives:

• Understand legislation, national policies, codes of conduct and professional practice in safeguarding and your legal responsibilities
• Know how to recognise and report different types of abuse and neglect
• To learn about our duties in relation to safeguarding and the referral process
• Develop your understanding of safeguarding and be able to describe how to work in ways that safeguard children and young people from abuse, harm and neglect

Please note that attendees will be required to refresh this training every 3 years.

19/06/2025, 09:30–16:00 (Virtual Training)

09/07/2025, 09:30–16:00 (Virtual Training)

Safeguarding Children Group C for Senior Practitioners & Designated Persons

This training has a vital role to ensure safeguards are in place and effective actions taken when concerns for a child arise. It is relevant to various settings, i.e. schools, childcare, voluntary and private services providing activities, learning & support to children and families.

Objectives:

• Understand the purpose, importance & role of the ‘Designated Lead’ and what it means in your setting
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and guidance on safeguarding children and young people within the Welsh and UK context
• Identify barriers and consider solutions to information sharing
• Good record and confidentiality keeping

Please note that attendees will be required to refresh this training every 3 years. Completion of Group C training means you do not need to renew Group B training.

17/09/2025 & 18/09/2025, 09:30–16:30 (Virtual Training)

Basic Welsh for Social Care Providers

Taught in a conversational style, this course comprises of 3 sessions of 2 hours tuition each. These sessions will provide you with basic Welsh phrases, greetings, and terminology.

The course will also refer directly to the National Centre’s online self-study course, Beginners Welsh for Social Care. This can be completed in accordance with one’s own timetable, and will provide further specialist terms and phrases for the Social Care sector.

Each session is designed to enable you to do things and communicate in the language. By the end of the course, you will be able to form simple day-to-day sentences, discuss common professional and recreational topics, and have access to sector specific terms and phrases.

Objectives:

• Give you the basics in Welsh
• Get you talking and using the language and start you on your journey towards fluency
• Introduce key terms to the Social Care sector

Course 1

27/06/2025, 10:00–12:00

04/07/2025, 10:00–12:00

11/07/2025, 10:00–12:00

Course 2

05/09/2025, 10:00–12:00

12/09/2025, 10:00–12:00

19/09/2025, 10:00–12:00

Understanding Independent Professional Advocacy 

If you are supporting people who face barriers to speaking up for themselves and who are going through social care and support assessment, planning, review, safeguarding processes (as adults or parents) or recent complaint about any of these, you need to have an understanding of the 3 County Independent Professional Advocacy Service.

By attending this information session, you will find out more about this free and confidential service, what is independent advocacy, how it can assist the people you support, and how to refer into the service.

English and Welsh sessions will run simultaneously on the following dates:

15/07/2025, 10:00–11:00 (Virtual Training)

14/10/2025, 14:00–15:00 (Virtual Training)

LGBTQ+ – How to Provide Appropriate Services and Support

Examining and the understanding of the needs of older LGBT individuals with regards to meeting care needs in the community, residential homes and in interactions of authority staff. Examining the social and legal history and the effects of them on older LGBT individuals.

Objectives:

• Understanding the past legal and social history for LGBT persons in the UK
• Understand how we as local authority employees can meet the needs of the LGBT community
• Meeting legal obligations with regards to equality legislation 

22/10/2025, 09:30–13:00 (Virtual Training)

LGBT Awareness – Voices of Difference

LGBT Awareness – From School Age to Older Age – Providing Through Age Care and Support.

Objectives:

• To raise awareness of the needs of the LGBT community and issues from school age though to older age and how you can help meet each persons’ needs
• To raise awareness of society’s historical negative treatment of LBGT people and the impact that has on the individual person and how LGBT people have been excluded from society
• Understand Equality legislation and to have an awareness of hate crime

14/08/2025, 13:30–17:00 (Virtual Training)

Working with Adults with Unresolved Childhood Trauma using Virtual Reality

Prior to attendance at this training you must have completed the Introduction to Adverse Childhood Experiences using Virtual Reality and Trauma Informed Practice using Virtual Reality courses.

In our work with families, we often work with trauma experienced parents alongside their children who too have experienced trauma. In adult work with service users in mental health services, addiction, and criminal justice services, many of these vulnerable adults have unresolved trauma issues from childhood.

Objectives:

• Gain insights how early experience affects later emotions, behaviour and relationships
• How do we become more trauma responsive?
• How can we apply this trauma knowledge to our daily work with adults?

25/06/2025, 09:30–12:30, Ystwyth Room – Penmorfa, Aberaeron

Social Media, Children & Young People using Virtual Reality

Increase our understanding of the problems children and young people face online;

• Cyberbullying
• Feeling overwhelmed
• Seeing distressing and hurtful content
• Being influenced by negative attitudes
• Gaming addiction and gambling
• Explore how we can best support our children and young people

23/06/2025, 09:30–15:30, Clarach Room – Penmorfa, Aberaeron

Dementia Interpreter

Sensory equipment will be used during the course to help you understand how it feels to have communication difficulties and aims to:

• Give insight into how it feels to have dementia
• Help you understand the importance of communication barriers and their impact on the individual
• Give you the tools to work towards overcoming communication difficulties, improve the quality of care and build positive working relationships with people living with dementia

10/09/2025, 09:30–12:30, Ystwyth Room – Penmorfa, Aberaeron

Heart Start / Emergency First Aid

Training to enable staff to deliver emergency first aid and use a defibrillator.

Objectives:

• Responding to a first aid situation
• Administer first aid to an injured person in a safe manner including CPR and using a defibrillator
• State the need for recording incidents

16/07/2025, 10:30–13:30, Ystwyth Room – Penmorfa, Aberaeron

15/09/2025, 10:30–13:30, HCT – Llanbadarn Learning Centre, Aberystwyth

02/10/2025, 10:30–13:30, Ystwyth Room – Penmorfa, Aberaeron

10/11/2025, 10:30–13:30, HCT – Llanbadarn Learning Centre, Aberystwyth

Planning a Positive Retirement

To encourage a positive and realistic approach to a financially secure retirement and help delegates make informed choices about retirement.

Objectives:

• What actions and choices need to be considered in the lead up to retirement with pension plans
• What the State Pension may provide and when
• Understand the next steps and where to receive further guidance and regulated financial advice

02/10/2025, 13:00–15:30 (Virtual Training)

Substance Misuse

Barod is offering a series of Substance Misuse training courses for all professionals to help them to identify substance use and misuse, to refer into services and to provide basic support and information to people around their substance use. You need to attend the Basic Substance Misuse Awareness course prior to attending the Adolescent Development and Substance Misuse course.

Basic Substance Misuse Awareness

12/09/2025, 09:30–13:30 (Virtual Training)

09/10/2025, 09:30–13:30 (Virtual Training)

Adolescent Development and Substance Misuse 

18/09/2025, 09:30–13:30 (Virtual Training)

Alcohol and Screening

16/07/2025, 09:30–12:30 (Virtual Training)

Cannabis and Screening

19/11/2025, 13:30–16:30 (Virtual Training)

Image and Performance Enhancing Drugs

10/07/2025, 09:30–13:30 (Virtual Training)