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Free training for our members
Women’s Aid has been granted funding from the Home Office for work that supports Children and Young People with lived experience of Domestic Abuse. The funding is over three years and enables Training and Education to offer further bursaries for facilitation training. This will primarily be for the Power of Change, You and Me Mum and Helping Hands. Member organisations are able to apply and must commit to being trained on all three programmes and be able to send two people per training session. For more information, please email training@womensaid.org.uk
Training for barristers on coercive control and trauma-informed working
Would your chambers benefit from training on coercive & controlling behaviour and working in a trauma-informed, survivor-centred way? We can tailor training sessions to your needs. “The feedback from the training has been overwhelming. The trainer had a natural ability to engage with an audience and bring to life the message she is seeking to get across. Humanising her talk which you do not see very often. The content of the course was super informative and relevant to all attendees. One attendee commented that they could listen to the trainer for hours – with another asking if she could come back again. I would recommend that this session is part of your outreach programme – the more professionals who engage with this subject (working with victims / survivors / deal with litigation involving these issues) need to be educated – plain and simple.” – CEO and Senior Consultant Barrister, Unit Chambers Liverpool
Training for tradespeople
Did you know that as a tradesperson going into people’s homes, you can help identify and support someone who is experiencing domestic abuse? Women’s Aid has delivered specific training to tradespeople to enable them to spot the signs and safely engage in conversation with survivors of domestic abuse. If your business is interested in following the many that have already taken up this opportunity to receive accredited training for your tradespeople, then please do contact training@womensaid.org.uk
Training for law firms
Are you working in a law firm supporting civil or criminal cases relating to domestic abuse? Do you feel that you would benefit from specialist domestic abuse-related training? If so we can offer you a bespoke training package for your staff. We have over 30 years of experience in delivering high quality bespoke training to given professions including Solicitors, Magistrates, Police and Judges via the Judicial College. This training will be tailored to your needs and will include related elements of the Domestic Abuse Act. Please email training@womensaid.org.uk
Why join us?
- “All of the training was excellent – appropriate content delivered at a suitable learning pace and the trainer was friendly, approachable and knowledgeable. This was by far the best course I have been on in a very long time!”
- “Excellent training, lots of information for me to reflect on and build into my practice.”
- “The trainer was great! I really enjoyed the interactive activities and would recommend the course. I feel I have learned a lot and can take it away with me to develop a policy. Thank you 🙂 “
- “Really enjoyed the session, great activities and handouts. I will definitely be able to transfer knowledge and skills to my role.”
- “The course was very thought-provoking, and I felt comfortable participating and asking questions.”
- “Good specialist knowledge. Excellent delivery with plenty of opportunity to discuss – not too fast paced.”
Contact us and FAQs
Please see our top queries below before contacting.
If we haven’t covered the information you’d like, we’d love to hear from you.
You can contact us at Women’s Aid Training and Education by sending us an e-mail to: training@womensaid.org.uk. (For training related enquiries only).
We offer discounted rates for our member services but unfortunately we do not offer concessionary rates to non-members. If your organisation is interested in becoming a member of Women’s Aid please contact the membership team on membership@womensaid.org.uk
If you would like to cancel a course you have booked, please contact training@womensaid.org.uk.
If you are based in England and we do not offer the course you would like in your area, we would like to hear from you. We are always looking for new venues when funding permits. You can contact training@womensaid.org.uk to pass on your feedback.
Scottish Women’s Aid, Welsh Women’s Aid Northern Ireland Women’s Aid
We will email you approximately 3 weeks prior to the course date with the final details, including the venue address.
We ask that you wait until 2 weeks prior to the course date to book such requirements.
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