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CANCELLED: Loneliness and Social Isolation Workshops - Free to Attend

05 March 2020

LONELINESS & ISOLATION: Workshops for the Adult Social Care Workforce, FREE to attend 5 Dates and 5 locations across NI

The Loneliness and Isolation workshops are aimed at the adult social care workforce and are free to attend. Ten half day workshops will be facilitated by the Northern Ireland Social Care Council and funded by the Department of Health, across 5 locations, over 5 days from the 1st April to mid-May 2020. 

With 750 spaces available to social care workers over the 5 days, the half-day workshops will be delivered by experienced practitioners to help support and enhance capacity to recognise and respond to the prevalent issues of loneliness and isolation.

Each face to face session will include group work and discussion of practice based scenarios and will cover the following:



•       Understanding loneliness and isolation
•       Recognising/identifying signs of loneliness
•       Responding appropriately to loneliness
•       Appropriate signposting to other services



A digital learning resource on Loneliness and Isolation will be made available via the Social Care Council’s Learning Zone to provide additional support for all attendees post events.  


Download our flyer with all the information and dates for upcoming workshops: Loneliness and Social Isolation Workshop Flyer


System alert – Public Facing Register

We are aware of a technical issue affecting a number of registrants who are unable to view their registration status on the Public Register Facing Register (the Register). Employers are also experiencing this when they are using the Register to look up the details of registrants. We are working to resolve this. Affected registrants should continue to work whilst their record on the Register is updated. If any further information is required by an individual registrant or employer, please email: registration@niscc.hscni.net.