Lone Working Awareness July 2025

30 July 2025 1:00pm–4:00pm

Online via Zoom

This course is aimed at members who are required to work alone or visit service users or clients at their homes or other locations outside of the office.

Cruse Introduction to Bereavement by Suicide 10th September 2025

10 September 2025 1:00pm–2:00pm

Online via Microsoft Teams

The content of this session is relevant to all UNSION workplaces and it guides you through the features and strategies to enable you to deliver timely and appropriate care to those you are supporting.

Staying Strong: Stress Awareness September 2025

16 September 2025 12:30pm–1:30pm

Online via Microsoft Teams

This workshop, created and delivered by UNISON, is designed to provide ways in which you can manage your stress both in work and for your personal life.

Advanced Employment Law – Race Discrimination 2025

17 September 2025 9:00am–4:30pm

It can be difficult to recognise when members have a realistic chance of proving race discrimination and activists may lack confidence in this area. This course will give practical skills for discussing members’ concerns and recognising potential cases. More generally, it will build skills of interviewing members and analysing evidence which can be applied to […]

Advanced Employment Law – Religion and Belief Discrimination 2025

24 September 2025 9:00am–1:00pm

Looking at protected characteristics under the Equality Act, this half day course will talk about discrimination on the basis of religion or philosophical belief. The session will cover direct discrimination against workers because of their religion; the position when workers need time off for religious Sabbaths, holidays or prayers; free speech and the limits to […]

Advanced Employment Law – Age Discrimination 2025

13 November 2025 9:00am–1:00pm

A recent addition to our set of on-line courses looking at protected characteristics under the Equality Act, this half day course will talk about discrimination on the basis of age. This half day age discrimination course will look at the meaning of ‘age’ under the Equality Act; the unique defence to direct age discrimination; and […]

Deaf Awareness December 2025

4 December 2025 10:00am–1:00pm

Online via Microsoft Teams

This session will identify the communication differences of Deaf and hearing people, building up an awareness of the many challenges faced by the Deaf community.