Diary of forthcoming events 2008/2009

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Benefits and personal finance

Benefits for children living away from home
20 August 2008 Glasgow
A one-day course covering the benefit and tax credit implications of a child living away from home, or away from their birth parents, for example, being looked after by the local authority, by foster carers or kinship carers.
For more information visit the Child Poverty Action Group website - www.cpag.org.uk

Benefits for young people
28 August 2008 Glasgow
A one-day course covering benefit entitlement for young people in or out of work, and in or out of education and training, including young people with a disability.
For more information visit the Child Poverty Action Group website - www.cpag.org.uk

Benefits for people from abroad
4 September 2008 Glasgow
Many people who come from abroad, including asylum seekers, may have restricted rights to benefits because they are classed as a person subject to immigration control or they fail the residence tests. This one-day course looks at these rules and who can still claim.
For more information visit the Child Poverty Action Group website - www.cpag.org.uk

Employment and support allowance
16 September 2008 Inverness
5 December 2008 Edinburgh
12 March 2009 Glasgow
A one-day course that aims to provide a detailed introduction to employment and support allowance, which is expected to replace both incapacity benefit and incapacity-based income support in 2008.
For more information visit the Child Poverty Action Group website - www.cpag.org.uk

An introduction to welfare rights
20-24 October 2008 Glasgow
A five-day course providing an introduction to benefits and tax credits.
For more information visit the Child Poverty Action Group website - www.cpag.org.uk

Benefits for ill or disabled people
5-6 November 2008 Glasgow
An introductory two-day course covering attendance allowance (AA), disability living allowance (DLA) and benefits for people unable to work due to illness or disability.
For more information visit the Child Poverty Action Group website - www.cpag.org.uk

Benefit support on bereavement
10 November 2008 Glasgow
This one day course, aimed at advisers and others who support families, looks at what happens to benefits when someone dies and the benefits that can be claimed afterwards.
For more information visit the Child Poverty Action Group website - www.cpag.org.uk

Tax credits - the basics
12 November 2008 Glasgow
A one-day course that aims to provide a basic tax credits tool kit for those working with families and low-paid workers.
For more information visit the Child Poverty Action Group website - www.cpag.org.uk

Eradicating child poverty
24 November 2008 Glasgow
A one day conference where academic and business leaders will offer their expertise and case study examples to consider how best to tackle in-work poverty and create sustainable jobs with access to career development opportunities, and how business, individuals and the Government can work together to reduce the barriers to employment for parents across the country.
For more information visit the Holyrood Conferences website - http://conferences.holyrood.com.

Benefits for carers
27 November 2008 Glasgow
A one-day course covering entitlement to benefits for people caring for someone who is ill or disabled.
For more information visit the Child Poverty Action Group website - www.cpag.org.uk

AA/DLA - challenging decisions
17 February 2009 Glasgow
This one-day course is aimed at advisers taking on the problems that arise in challenging attendance allowance and disability living allowance decisions.
For more information visit the Child Poverty Action Group website - www.cpag.org.uk

DLA for children
19 February 2009 Glasgow
A one-day course that looks at the rules for claiming disability living allowance for children and considers how to fill in the form to avoid pitfalls.
For more information visit the Child Poverty Action Group website - www.cpag.org.uk

Carers

The health of Scotland’s unpaid carers
7 October 2008 Edinburgh
A national conference to explore how general practice and wider primary care staff can help support Scotland's 600,000 unpaid carers.
For more information visit the Carers Scotland website - www.carerscotland.org.

Criminal justice, law and rights

Prisons, beyond McLeish: new ideas, lasting solutions. Seeking change in Scotland's sentencing policy
8 September 2008 Edinburgh
This event aims to bring together experts from within the Scottish prison system and the rest of the world, bringing a range of perspectives and political viewpoints and considering public opinion on policy.
For more information visit the Holyrood Conferences website - http://conferences.holyrood.com.

Families, children and young people

Achieving the best start in life : learning from international reviews
9 September 2008 Glasgow
This conference will be held in the run up to the publication of the final Early Years and Early Intervention Framework and ten year strategy currently being prepared by the Scottish Government and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities.
For more information visit the Children in Scotland website - www.childreninscotland.org.uk.

Meeting the challenge: alternatives to restraint
30 September 2008 Glasgow
21 November 2008 Edinburgh
This one-day workshop looks at the challenge posed by children and young people who experience difficulty in regulating their behaviour and emotions.
For more information visit the Children in Scotland website - www.childreninscotland.org.uk.

Dealing with conflict, anger and aggression (6-12s)
9 October 2008 Glasgow
28 November 2008 Edinburgh
This one-day workshop will consider ways of working with children who are angry, aggressive or who display other types of challenging behaviour.
For more information visit the Children in Scotland website - www.childreninscotland.org.uk.

Dealing with conflict, anger and aggression (over 12s)
10 October 2008 Edinburgh
6 November 2008 Glasgow
This one-day workshop will consider adolescence as a concept, young people's perception of the adult world and the potential for conflict and confrontation with authority. It will explore strategies for communicating effectively with young people who display anger, aggression and/or challenging behaviour.
For more information visit the Children in Scotland website - www.childreninscotland.org.uk.

Making connections: how communities can collaborate for children and young peoples lifelong wellbeing and learning
6-7 November 2008 St Andrews
Children in Scotland annual conference in association with Fife Council will look at how those working in the children’s sector can share learning experiences.
For more information visit the Children in Scotland website - www.childreninscotland.org.uk.

Supporting children dealing with loss and change
26 November 2008 Edinburgh
This one-day workshop aims to help people working with children to understand the ways in which children experience change and loss - from the small losses inherent in everyday life and growing up, to significant life events like family breakdown and bereavement.
For more information visit the Children in Scotland website - www.childreninscotland.org.uk.

Empowering change: an introduction to solution-oriented thinking and approaches
1 December 2008 Glasgow
This one-day workshop is an introduction to solution-oriented practice and is suitable for anyone working with or supporting children in education, health or child care.
For more information visit the Children in Scotland website - www.childreninscotland.org.uk.

Health and health care

Child Brain Injury Trust workshops
18 September 2008 Dundee
23 September 2008 Aberdeen
CBIT's one-day workshops provide an opportunity to get to find out about childhood acquired brain injury.
For more information visit the CBIT website - www.cbituk.org.

Healthy care matters
25 September 2008 Glasgow
The national conference and AGM of Scottish Healthy Care Network.
For more information visit the Scottish Healthy Care Network website - www.shcn.org.uk.

Housing

Allocations and homelessness conference
24 September 2008 Perth
A one-day conference organised by the Chartered Institute of Housing.
For more information visit the CIH website - www.cih.org.

Scottish housing and support conference
2 October 2008 Edinburgh
A one-day conference aimed at policy makers, purchasers and providers, staff and service users in housing, health, social work and the voluntary sector in Scotland.
For more information visit the conference website - http://www.joa.co.uk/shasc.html

Regeneration conference
3 December 2008 Glasgow
A one-day conference organised by the Chartered Institute of Housing.
For more information visit the CIH website - www.cih.org.

Mental health and mental health care

From self-harm ... to self-belief
2 July 2008 Edinburgh
A one-day workshop run by Mindfields College which explores ways of working with people who self-harm.
For more information visit the Mindfields College website - www.mindfields.org.uk.

The essential brief therapy strategies
10 July 2008 Glasgow
A one-day workshop that aims to provide evidence-based, practical skills for use by professionals with people with aa variety of mental health issues.
For more information visit the Mindfields College website - www.mindfields.org.uk.

12th European symposium on suicide and suicidal behaviour
28-30 August 2008 Glasgow
A 3-day international symposium that aims to promote cutting edge research, stimulate new thinking in all aspects of suicidology, share our insights and expertise, and enhance collaboration between science, policy and practice.
For more information visit the symposium website - www.esssb12.org.

Mental health: five years after the Mental Health Act: mental health legislation, services and support in Scotland
2 September 2008 Edinburgh
A one-day conference which will provide a forum to contribute to the Scottish Government’s review of the Act, and assess how Scotland’s mental health community has responded to this pioneering law.
For more information visit the Holyrood Conferences website - http://conferences.holyrood.com.

Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000
17 September 2008 Glasgow
19 November 2008 (venue to be confirmed)
A one-day course to provide participants with an understanding of the Adults with Incapacity Act 2000, the background to it, and the mechanisms introduced by the Act to enable intervention to ensure the welfare of an adult with incapacity and help with managing finances.
For more information visit the Carers Scotland website - www.carerscotland.org.

Building attachment: theory into practice
25 September 2008 Edinburgh
This one-day workshop offers participants an understanding of secure, insecure and disorganised attachment and from this understanding ways of working with and caring for children who have experienced loss, separation, abuse or neglect.
For more information visit the Children in Scotland website - www.childreninscotland.org.uk.

Infant mental health and wellbeing
1 October 2008 Edinburgh
This one-day workshop will examine influence in very early life for future mental health and wellbeing and aims to develop practical awareness and knowledge, including how and when is the best time to intervene in the earliest years.
For more information visit the Children in Scotland website - www.childreninscotland.org.uk.

Anger management: working with young people
3 October 2008 Edinburgh
13 November 2008 Glasgow
This one-day workshop offers an opportunity to explore how anger management programmes can be developed for use with young people for whom anger presents a problem. The workshop will place significant emphasis on how best to help young people begin to understand and manage their own anger.
For more information visit the Children in Scotland website - www.childreninscotland.org.uk.

Understanding and managing problematic behaviour
4 December 2008 Glasgow
This one-day workshop offers participants the opportunity to examine the various effects and causes of problematic behaviour in children.
For more information visit the Children in Scotland website - www.childreninscotland.org.uk.

Attachment theory into practice: casework clinic
9 December 2008 Edinburgh
This one-day advanced workshop is aimed at professionals and carers who work with or care for children who have attachment difficulties caused by abuse and neglect.
For more information visit the Children in Scotland website - www.childreninscotland.org.uk.

Research and evaluation

COSCA's 5th Counselling Research Dialogue: making research accessible
25 November 2008 Stirling
Transferring knowledge from research into counselling and psychotherapy is important for practice. The Counselling Research Dialogue 2008 will discuss how to turn research into practice and how to make research findings accessible.
For more information visit the COSCA website - www.cosca.org.uk.

Social work methods

Group work with young people
11 September 2008 Glasgow
23 October 2008 Edinburgh
This one-day workshop is aimed at teachers, support staff, youth workers others and will cover some theoretical perspectives but will also focus on practical aspects of groupworking skills.
For more information visit the Children in Scotland website - www.childreninscotland.org.uk.

Staff management

Supporting frontline staff: beyond health and safety
29 October 2008 Edinburgh
A one-day training workshop covering the kinds of support that staff in child care settings need, the effect of poor staff support, some high impact/low cost strategies for effective support, promoting good self-care among staff, and influencing policy makers, funders and managers to consider support mechanisms for front-line staff.
For more information visit the Children in Scotland website - www.childreninscotland.org.uk.

Working solo safely
27 November 2008 Edinburgh
This one-day workshop will help understanding of the specific personal safety risks associated with working alone, and provide ways to reduce them, by way of interactive group work and realistic problem solving.
For more information visit the Children in Scotland website - www.childreninscotland.org.uk.

Substance misuse

Scotland’s dysfunctional relationship: alcohol and violence
6 October 2008 Edinburgh
This conference aim to bring together experts in alcohol addiction, community safety and policing strategies who will discuss what solutions can be implemented to produce positive cultural change.
For more information visit the Holyrood Conferences website - http://conferences.holyrood.com.