About Advice NI: Advice NI is a charitable company limited by guarantee. We support 68 members within the independent advice sector who provide information, advice and advocacy services on a range of issues including benefits, housing, employment and education. Our vision is of ‘a society of confident, informed and active citizens who can access their rights and entitlements.’ To this end we strive to ‘provide leadership and services to our members and ensure accessible advice services across NI.’
Our services include advice provision on debt, social security and HMRC products.
About Advice NI Training: Advice NI develops and delivers high quality, award winning, training programmes to equip the independent legal advice sector with the knowledge and skills required to deliver confident, competent advice. Our recent training awards include a prestigious Regional Training Award and AONTAS Star Award won in 2011, and our Advocacy Training was shortlisted for a 2014 Star Award.
Our training is targeted, in the main, to those working in the legal advice/advice and guidance sector and is offered via face to face and e-learning platforms. We provide accredited and non-accredited training with all of our qualifications mapped to the National Occupational Standards (NOS) for Legal Advisers and Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF). We are the leading provider of nationally accredited advice and guidance qualifications in Northern Ireland.
Our training is dynamic, and informed by our annual training needs analysis, ensuring it is current, responds to the needs of advisors and in turn the public. We have a pool of highly qualified tutors and assessors and work in partnership on our training with various organisations including the Money Advice Trust (MAT), Law Centre NI, Alzheimer’s Society, Disability Action, Citizens Advice and Age NI.
This brochure provides details of face to face and e-learning training available from Advice NI between January and June 2015. Our E-learning courses are identified by the symbol below in our brochure and delivered through our e-learning website
www.adviceni-learningonline.net.
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Framework & Accreditation: Advice NI is an approved Assessment Centre with City and Guilds, ProQual and Open College Network Northern Ireland. We offer accredited courses and qualifications from Level 1 to Level 5. We provide both regulated and non-regulated accredited courses grounding them in an educational and professional framework. This includes a range of QCF qualifications recognised in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and linked to various NOS. Accredited courses are identified in the brochure by the following accreditation symbol.
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Advice NI courses can be used as evidence for our NVQ’s in Advice and Guidance (Levels 3 or 4) and our Legal Advice Qualifications (currently Levels 2 or 3), for example, ‘Review Own Contribution to the Service’ (Unit 15) and ‘Evaluate and Develop Own Contribution to the Service’ (Unit 16). They can help you to meet the assessment criteria to achieve the vocational qualifications.
Advice NI courses can be used to meet Continued Professional Development (CPD) requirements for Advisers, Solicitors and Barristers. Participants will receive a certificate of attendance for all Advice NI training courses attended, and an official certificate from the awarding body for any accredited courses completed which can be used as evidence of CPD.
There are no entry requirements for the majority of Advice NI courses unless specified. However, for our vocational qualifications (e.g. NVQ, Legal Advice and Advocacy qualifications) participants must meet the relevant sector and task requirements. There are also pre-entry requirements for our skilled level wiseradviser courses see
www.wiseradviser.org for particulars.
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