Fighting fund banner

 

  1. Home
  2. •
  3. Activists
  4. •
  5. UCU training
  6. •
  7. Courses in the Northern region
  8. •
  9. Reasonable adjustments: supporting members, July 2025, in person

Reasonable adjustments: supporting members, 3, July, 2025, Northern region, in person, Newcastle/Gateshead

This course is for reps and activists involved in their local branch who want to learn more about supporting members around reasonable adjustments. This course will give you the knowledge and skills to support individuals through the process, along with looking at how positive changes can be made through organising and campaigning.

Representing courses

Course details

Nation/region:Northern Region
Course meeting dates: 3, July, 2025

Please ensure you can attend the entire course prior to submitting your application  form. Please further ensure you have secured time off from your employer to attend.
Course meeting times:9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 
Course time commitment:6 - 10 hours including pre & post course work
Location:

Newcastle/Gateshead 

Please note: Applications for this course will close on 30th June 2025. Applications after this dates may not be offered a place.

Course content

The course will cover the following:

  • What is a reasonable adjustment
  • The law and how it applies
  • Setting out the case for reasonable adjustments
  • Analysing workplace policies
  • Campaigning and organising 
  • Promoting good practice
  • Negotiating with the employer 

There is no requirement to have attended any UCU reps training prior to this course however, a solid understanding of your local branch bargaining machinery will be essential. If you are a new rep or an  interested activist and would like to attend this course please contact your branch chair or secretary to discuss how your branch negotiates policy with the employer. It is important that your branch are aware you wish to attend this course.

UCU courses are funded via members' contributions and public funding.

Information Facility time

Time off for training is a right and one which should be exercised as part of normal industrial relations. For more info please see  Facilities and time off for UCU reps.

Facility time will not apply to those who are not elected UCU Reps unless your local branch has negotiated otherwise.

When you apply for a course we will assume that are making a commitment to attend the course as advertised, and have secured time off from your employer. Please contact your branch/devolved nation/regional office if you are having problems securing time off.

Before you complete this form, please be aware: You may be asked to register with the delivering college in which your trade union tutor is employed. Where colleges are drawing down funding for delivery you will be ask for your passport or equivalent identification details to register. This is a demand of the college who are following government requirements in order to satisfy public funding criteria. This is not a requirement UCU want to see and we are lobbying for change. However, as it stands, if you do not register with the college, your place will not be fundable.