GIRES E-Learning

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GIRES provides access to e-Learning programmes to assist organisations, friends and families to better understand how to support and work with trans and gender diverse people.

If you require access to our training for your staff, please email web@gires.org.uk as we can provide you with access tokens and can invoice your company directly.

If you have purchased access to these courses, please email web@gires.org.uk so that we can inform you when the courses are available again.

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Gender Diversity Awareness for Employers & Service Providers

GIRES Trans and Gender Diversity Awareness Training for Employers and Service Providers, a CPD-accredited e-learning resource, will:

  • Ensure that learners are better informed about trans and gender diversity;
  • Give you a better understanding of the law and good practice in relation to trans and gender diverse people;
  • Provide employers and service providers with the knowledge to meet their legal responsibilities in relation to staff, service users/ clients, and
  • Provide you with the skills and knowledge to address trans and gender diverse issues in line with your role.

The training consists of three modules and a test quiz, which will take about an hour to complete.:

  • Module 1: An introduction to trans and gender diversity
  • Module 2: Employers’ and employees’ responsibilities in relation to the law and best practice
  • Module 3: The importance of an inclusive and supportive workplace environment

CPD Training

Cost: £30

If you require evidence of learning and wish to acquire CPD points, please click on the Register and Pay button below. You will be sent login details to access the training.

Important information: On successful completion of the quiz at the end, the information sheet you filled in prior to taking the test will display your results. This will be your certificate.

To print this certificate, you will have click the print icon. This will enable the certificate to be printed.

You will not be able to return to your results after leaving the training course.

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GIRES Trans and Gender Diversity – Scientific Factors

This CPD-accredited e-learning resource provides a brief overview of the biological science relating to trans and gender diversity. The training is in 6 Modules and should take 1.5 hrs to complete. Once you have completed all six modules you will be able to print a certificate of learning which includes the CPD reference details.

  1. Introduction
  2. Chromosomes
  3. Legal Information
  4. Sex and Gender
  5. Nature vs Nurture
  6. Research

CPD Training

Cost: £30

If you require evidence of learning and wish to acquire CPD points, please click on the Register and Pay button below. You will be sent login details to access the training.

Important information: To enable for you to print this certificate, as the print button is not a live button, you will have to save as a file on your computer, or screen shot and saved as a PDF, this will then enable the certificate to be printed.

Free Training

If you would like to have access to the free training for your own personal interest, and not professional development, your progress and completion of sessions will not be recorded and you will not be able to generate a record of completion.

Please email web@gires.org.uk stating the GIRES Trans and Gender Diversity – Scientific Factors training you would like to access, and we will send you a link to the Open Access Training.

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Supporting Gender Diverse People in Post 16 Education

GIRES trans and gender diversity awareness training for learning providers, staff and students in post 16 education e-learning resource has been developed to raise awareness and understanding of the issues faced by trans and gender diverse learners and teachers and other staff, and provide the leaner with the information to respond appropriately when working or studying with trans and gender diverse learners and teachers and other staff.

Further and higher education establishments, as well as governors, management, trades’ unions and students’ unions will benefit from an understanding of the issues faced by trans and gender diverse people; all must share the corporate responsibility to provide them with a safe, inclusive and healthy environment.

The training consists of six modules each of which will take about 20 mins to complete.:

  1. Introduction to gender diversity in further education
  2. Learners’ experiences
  3. Employees’ experiences
  4. Disclosure and privacy
  5. Promoting equality
  6. Support

CPD Training

Cost: £30

If you require evidence of learning and wish to acquire CPD points, please click on the Register and Pay button below. You will be sent login details to access the training.

Important information: On successful completion of the test at the end, the information sheet you filled in prior to taking the test will display your results. This will be your certificate.

To enable for you to print this certificate, it will have to be saved as a file on your computer, or screen shot and saved as a PDF, this will then enable the certificate to be printed.

You will not be able to return to your results after leaving the training course.

Free Training for Students

If you are a student, you can have free access to this training for personal interest, not for professional development. Your progress and session completion will not be recorded, and you will not be able to generate a completion record.

Please email web@gires.org.uk stating the Supporting Gender Diverse People in Post 16 Education training you would like to access and we will send you a link to the Open Access Training.

Register & Pay

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