Train and learn with the ALLIANCE

At the ALLIANCE, we bring the best expertise, knowledge and lived experience across a wide range of health and social care topics.  

To share this, our teams offer a range of training and learning opportunities to:  

• Support professionals and organisations build their knowledge
• Develop their practice with tried and tested methods or learnings 
• Ensure teams and individuals are putting people at the heart of health and social care. 

Whether you want to develop your understanding of Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC), improve your inclusive communication or sensory awareness, strengthen digital practice, improve person-centred approaches or explore specialist areas of health and social care, our training can help you and your organisation take the next step. 

Training is offered available online or in person, to members, other third sector organisations, businesses, and the public sector.

Interested in finding out more? 

Complete our short enquiry form and tell us about your training needs. The relevant ALLIANCE team will get in touch to discuss how we can best support you. You can also find additional information on each training below our form.

If another format would be more accessible for you, you can also email info@alliance-scotland.org.uk, or telephone 0141 404 0231 (including via Contact Scotland BSL). 

Explore our training offers:

Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC) Training 

Our Children and Young People Programme offers CPD-accredited GIRFEC training to professionals across Scotland. 

The training aims to increase knowledge and understanding of GIRFEC and support professionals to embed its principles into their practice. It explores how GIRFEC can be used to support the wellbeing of children and young people and promote a more coordinated, child-centred approach across services. 

Scottish Sensory Hub 

The ALLIANCE Scottish Sensory Hub (SSH) is Scotland’s only cross-sensory coordination body for people who are Deaf, Deafblind, or who have Visual Impairments.  

Our inclusive communication, sensory awareness and sighted guide training helps organisations meet their legal duties (in line with the Equality Act 2010) and build genuinely accessible practice. Whether that’s improving website or office accessibility, supporting event planning, or adapting how you contact people and track communication support requirements, our training can help.

Digital Health and Social Care 

Discover Digital  

The ALLIANCE’s Discover Digital project raises awareness of digital tools which promote health and wellbeing.  

Our workshops are a great way for organisations, staff teams and front-line support staff to build skills and confidence in digital health and care. Workshops aim to increase participants’ knowledge and understanding of digital health and social care and how to access trusted digital support tools. It can be delivered as an informative session or as a practical learning session. 

Digital Health and Social Care Human Rights Principles 

Human rights are core to how we plan, deliver and evaluate our digital services.  

Our online training session offers an overview of how organisations/professionals can achieve a rights based approach in their digital role and design of health and social care services to deliver a quality digital experience. The training works through our five human rights principles, relating each to Digital Scotland’s Service Standards and highlights good practice examples for each, to illustrate what it looks like in practice.

ALISS (A Local Information System for Scotland) 

ALISS is a national digital programme enabling people and professionals to find and share information on health and wellbeing resources, services, groups, and support in their local communities and online.  

We offer a range of training opportunities designed to support individuals and organisations to use ALISS effectively.  

From introductory information sessions to more in-depth editor training, it explores how ALISS can be used to find, share, and maintain information about community resources. Sessions can be delivered online or in-person to meet the needs of participants.  

Person Centred Voices 

Person Centred Voices led by national lead Tommy Whitelaw delivers talks, interactive workshops, facilitation, films and community engagement activities that help organisations place people at the heart of everything they do. Drawing on lived experience and years of partnership working, our programme supports leadership, culture change, staff wellbeing, service improvement and community development. Person Centred Voices also help organisations capture impact, evidence outcomes, and share powerful stories that inspire learning, collaboration and meaningful change.