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Training
and Support
The Independent
Review Service provides a range of free training and support to welfare rights
groups, Jobcentre Plus staff and others.
These include:
Self-Instruction Packages
These allow you to work through
a training package at your own time and pace. Click on the link on the left to
be taken to the list of available packages. You can download these. Without
charge. Please note that, in exceptional circumstances, we may be able to post
one copy to you, but where possible please download
instead.
Social Fund
Commissioner's Advice
The Social Fund Commissioner issues advice on how
to interpret and apply the main Social Fund Directions. This advice, as used by
IRS Inspectors, is available free of charge from this website. Click on the
link on the left to download the advice and the support notes.
We are currently unable to
offer "in-house" workshops held at our Birmingham office, and are no longer
able send a member of our staff to your organisation to deliver a workshop.
This is because we are concentrating our available staffing resources on
delivering our core business, which is of course the delivery of the Inspectors
review.
Over several
years, we have hosted a series of large social fund stakeholder meetings. These
meetings are aimed at 150 interested delegates who wish share their experiences
of the IRS, how the scheme is working, to exchange information and ideas with
other professionals and to learn from our expertise. We may host similar
meetings in future. If you would like to be invited to one of these meetings,
please e-mail your details to info@irs-review.org.uk and we will
send you an invite if we visit your area.
Over the coming months we hope to expand the range
of training materials that can be downloaded from this web-site, to help
promote awareness and understanding of the Social Fund and the review process.
Enquiries about the help
we can provide should be emailed to info@irs-review.org.uk or you can
telephone on 0121 606 2222.
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