Your people can be your biggest asset and with security awareness training they can become highly effective barriers to cyber-crime. Security awareness training provides simple and effective knowledge for people to understand their environment and provides the confidence to challenge when something does not look right. The training is focussed on those with little or no cyber security or technical knowledge and is delivered in small, succinct modules using real world examples.
The sessions will cover the following:
Introduction to Cyber Resilience
Why it is important
Different types of security vulnerabilities out there (technical/non-technical)
Social Engineering
Strong passwords and their importance
Ishings (Spear Phishing, Vishing, Email Phishing and Smishing)
Social media and what you put out there
Keeping devices up to date
Local Grown Attacks and their Impact
Ransomware
This training is delivered by the Eastern Cyber Resilience Centre. The trainers are highly knowledgeable, personable, and friendly and pride themselves on providing the right environment to feel comfortable and to ask questions.
NEA’s free Fuel Poverty Forums are aimed at frontline service providers, to examine practical and policy initiatives related to fuel poverty and delivering energy efficiency solutions at a local, regional and national level. The regional Forums showcase innovation, good practice and promote dialogue and discussion on a wide range of sectoral issues to help NEA shape policy developments and campaigns.
The summer forums will be taking place in person in June and July. Attendance is free, however numbers are limited and NEA members will be given priority booking.
To register, click the link below to be taken to the booking form. Registered participants will receive an agenda and joining instructions nearer to the time.
Cost to participants: Free (However, if a delegate fails to attend a course that they have booked, or cancel with less than five working days’ notice, their organisation will be charged)
Target audience: anyone working with children and families in Essex
Learning Outcomes:
What Criminal Exploitation is
The signs of Criminal Exploitation in children & young people and how it progresses
Practical guidance for communication with children & young people you suspect of being involved in criminal exploitation
What services there are available to support children, young people and families who have been subjected to Criminal Exploitation
Time for questions and sharing concerns/ advice
Cancellation
If a delegate fails to attend a course that they have booked, or cancel with less than five working days’ notice, their organisation will be charged – £20. A delegate will be deemed a non-attendee if they arrive 15 minutes after the course commences either online or at a venue.
N.B. This is a virtual training course and delegates will be sent a calendar invite with the link to Microsoft Teams to join the event. Please note that your email address may be visible to other delegates on the Microsoft Teams invite.
If the booking for the course has closed, please e-mail escb.training@essex.gov.uk to see if there are any places available. Only those delegates who are on the ESCB attendance list will be admitted to the training.
NB: There is no charge to delegates for these workshops although there will be a charge for non-attendance and late notice cancellation.
We’re less than a week away from our next cost-of-living data briefing. You can register now for the event. We’ll be joined by Emma Revie, Chief Executive at The Trussell Trust and Dr Sarah Hughes, Chief Executive at Mind alongside Dame Claire Moriarty, Chief Executive at Citizens Advice. They’ll discuss how the crisis is escalating and what support is needed to help people overcome what often becomes a downward spiral of debt and anxiety. Our data will be presented by Tom MacInnes, our Chief Data Analyst.
In our May briefing we heard Veronica’s story. When her fixed-rate mortgage came to an end, like many others, higher interest rates meant that her monthly mortgage payments shot up. It’s put extra pressure on her monthly budget, and with her other essential spending she doesn’t have enough each month to make ends meet.
Maldon and District Community Voluntary Service are hosting a funding fair for voluntary and community groups working in the Maldon District. The event will include presentations from both national and local funders who will outline how to apply to them for funds and how they make grants. There will also be an opportunity to network with them and other local groups and to speak to Maldon and District CVS about their funding advice service. The Funding Fair will be held on Tuesday 4th July from 1pm-3:30pm at Maldon Town Hall.
Autism Anglia’s independent diagnostic service is an expert provider of NICE compliant autism diagnostic assessments for anyone over 3 years old. Their Multi-disciplinary team are qualified and experienced with a fantastic understanding of different profiles of autism, offering individualised recommendations and education advice.
Autism Anglia pride themselves on their personalised approach for their gold-standard service, providing a named person to guide through the process which starts with analysing results from comprehensive screening questionnaires. Assessments are carried out using ADOS-2 and ADI-R diagnostic tools alongside expert clinical opinion, as well as a review of historical, professional, and school reports where applicable. Autism Anglia offer pre and post-diagnostic support including a detailed report.
Essex Community Foundation want to make it easy for you to access the funding that they have available. If your charity, voluntary or community organisation is based or working in Essex and needs financial support, they may be able to help.
You can tell them what you need support for at any time, as they accept applications throughout the year, and their team will try to find the funds you need.
Your FREE digital referral and signposting platform
Do you get frustrated that people don’t know about your service?
Do you wish other service providers could find your offer more easily?
Would you like more referrals into your service?
Great news! In response to these challenges (and more) the Mid and South Essex ICB has now funded the rollout of this digital referral and signposting platform after Essex Frontline’s proven success across West Essex over many years.
Designed to promote easier – and more effective – partnership working, Frontline provides an up-to-date library of local health and wellbeing support AND enables direct – and secure – referrals into services. It’s a great platform for your service to be visible to all and you can track any referrals in/out of your service.
In addition, Frontline captures really useful data for your service when you have to report into commissioners or funders.
Key information:
Be visible – and more accessible – to other community services and the public
Make referrals, receive referrals, or simply signpost… or all three!
Completely free to use
Find local up-to-date information on other services – easily
A free handy app for staff on the move
Evidences collaboration across different services.
If you’d like to add your service or want to know more, contact our friendly Frontline team at info@frontlinereferrals.org.uk or call 01799 618855.
PLUS
You are warmly invited to attend any of our online drop-in sessions that will be held over the first 10 days of June. We will show you what Frontline does and why hundreds of services in West Essex already love the platform. We look forward to seeing you there!