Training courses
Voice training days cover specialist areas of policy and practice, designed to enrich the work of advocates and other professionals within the children's workforce. All courses are designed and delivered by experienced Voice trainers alongside experts in each specialist field.
We offer training in the following specialist areas…
Advocacy and children’s rights
Advocacy with specific groups
Safeguarding
Complaints
Decision-making and reviews
Mental health
Youth justice and the secure estate
Participation and training for young people
Training for social workers
Training for independent visitors
Equality and diversity
Training and presentation skills
Upcoming dates and booking your place
Please see our training schedule for upcoming dates, or browse our events calendar. You can reserve your place by completing our online booking form.
If you would like further details of any of our courses, or are interested in attending a training day not listed on the schedule, please let us know; we may be able to arrange a training day or keep you informed about future dates.
Course fees: Public/Private Sector £135 per participant per day; Voluntary Sector £115 per participant per day. Discounts may be available. Fees include all course materials, lunch and refreshments.
Our training areas…
Advocacy and children’s rights
- Being a Voice: the ultimate training in children's rights and advocacy
- The beginners guide to advocacy and children's rights
- Good practice and legal exchange
- Opening doors: getting young people into the care system
- Sorted and supported: understanding rights and entitlements of care leavers
- Care uncovered: an introduction to understanding the care system
- Non-Instructed Advocacy with children and young people
- Advocating with young refugees
Advocacy with specific groups
- Advocating with young refugees
- More than words: communicating with children and young people with disabilities
- Breaking down the barriers: the rights of children and young people with disabilities
- Independent Mental Health Advocacy
- Understanding mental health: an advocates guide
- Sorted and supported: understanding rights and entitlements of care leavers
- Non-Instructed Advocacy with children and young people
Safeguarding
Complaints
- Complaints and beyond: training for practitioners to support young people in getting the outcomes they want and are legally entitled to
- Stage 3 Panels
- The Excellent Investigator: everything you need to know about complaints investigation
Decision-making and reviews
- Team around the child: a child-centred approach to resolving disputes in decision making
- It's MY Review: the award winning training to revolutionise your reviews
Mental health
Youth justice and the secure estate
- Locked Up Looked After: Everything you need to know about young people's rights
- Secure accommodation reviews: getting it right in practice
- Out of sight NOT out of mind: championing the rights of young people in the secure estate
Participation and training for young people
- Having Your Voice
- It's OUR worker: involving young people in interviews
- Peer research training for young people
- It's OUR voice: participative event facilitation
Training for social workers
- It's MY life: child-centred training for social workers
- It's MY Review: the award winning training to revolutionise your reviews
Training for IVs
Equality and diversity
- All different, all equal: A child centred approach to promoting equality and diversity
- More than words: communicating with children and young people with disabilities
- Breaking down the barriers: the rights of children and young people with disabilities
- Advocating with young refugees
- Independent Mental Health Advocacy
- Understanding mental health: an advocates guide
