Kindly put together by our East Midlands Regional Office, these are training opportunities and support you can access online.
During periods of uncertainty and anxiety many people turn to education to help them find a way through. With our classroom courses temporarily halted we wanted to create a list of online learning and support that’s available.
We hope you find these useful…. (Please click on the image below to view more Details)
Most of these are free unless stated otherwise. Below is a brief list but there are lots more out there.
You will also find details below of UNISON’s Learning Grants to support members that are paying for their own courses.
Unison Community Conference started with focussed meetings on service areas. I attended the housing association session which looked at issues facing housing staff across the country, discussed best practice and challenges still very prevalent in the sectors. Issues discussed ranged from universal credit challenges, leaseholder issues, staffing issues, support networks, mental health issues, working with tenants, staff bonuses. Outcomes from this were for a specific newsletter for housing related information and support to be put together to share best practice and inform of useful information.
Following this useful session the Community Seminar began and conference welcomed Christine McNea spoke to conference about the challenges affecting those working in the community sector. Questions were raised to the group around, rough sleeping, sleep ins, community sector increasing inside, housing associations related pay scale increase for work to be done, and other community related issues.
Saturday began we attended the Workshop on Deepening engagement in your unison, this turned out to be very useful and gave us some ideas for future planning for the branch to ensure that we can reach out to members across all sectors of our branch and make sure we include them all in future branch activities where possible.
There was then a speech from RT HON Mark Drakeford AM (First Minister of Wales) who covered issues which related to the Housing Crisis, Right to Buy, community issues, success stories from Wales and also fielded questions from delegates,
NEC elections are now taking place, voting started on the 15th April you should have received ballot forms or will shortly. It is important that you use your vote to elect the leadership of your UNION.
Your Branch nominated the candidates below because your branch believes that the candidates experience, strength and proven record of supporting members and branches will be crucial over the next two years. Chris Tansley has proved himself to be accountable and hard working National executive member who puts the interests of UNISON members first.
East Midlands Chris Tansley Emma Proctor
National Local Government Kati Conway Maggie Griffin Maxine Rowden
National community seats John Gray Denise Thomas
National Black members Ash Dhobi Manjula Kumari Sandra Okwara
Unison Community Conference started with focussed meetings on service areas. I attended the housing association session which looked at issues facing housing staff across the country, discussed best practice and challenges still very prevalent in the sectors. Issues discussed ranged from universal credit challenges, leaseholder issues, staffing issues, support networks, mental health issues, working with tenants, staff bonuses. Outcomes from this were for a specific newsletter for housing related information and support to be put together to share best practice and inform of useful information.
There was then a speech from RT HON Mark Drakeford AM (First Minister of Wales) who covered issues which related to the Housing Crisis, Right to Buy, community issues, success stories from Wales and also fielded questions from delegates,